Re: [Bluemusic-users] Wishlist again

[Steven Y. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi Pia,

> 1) would it be possible to forward the F9 key to the blue main window
> from within BlueMixer?

Ugh.  I realize now this works fine when I'm testing in my dev
environment as I test with a java 1.4.2 JVM to make sure it works on
Java 1.4.  However, outside of my dev environment I use Java 6 and it
does not work there.  I thought I found a workaround but it didn't pan
out.  This is a very frustrating bug but I'm looking into it.

> 2) would it be possible that the UDO library inherits the drag & drop
> behavior of the instrument library? Currently the only way to sort the
> UDO library is via cut/copy/paste and that doesn't even work for folders.

I thought it already was, but it sure isn't!  Shouldn't take too long
to implement.

> 3) some examples of scripting. Neither browsing blue.scripting nor the
> ScriptUtils.py were much enlightening.

I had posted some examples when I first emailed the list.  Here's an
example with user interaction:


from javax.swing import JOptionPane
from ScriptingUtils import *

retVal = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Time Factor for Stretch", 1.0)

try:
	val = float(retVal)
	for i in selectedSoundObjects:
		i.startTime *= val
		i.subjectiveDuration *= val
	alert("Scaled start time and duration of objects by value %f"%val)
except:
	alert("Value entered was not a floating point number")

This script asks the user to enter in a numerical value to stretch by,
then will multiply the start and duration of each selected soundObject
by that value.


> 4) File selectors in Synthbuilder remembering the last directory used
> (the information is already there after all). I.e. if I want to load
> another sample, the file selector dialog starts with the directory the
> current file was loaded from.

I'm confused on this one.  Doesn't what you say about it starting
where you left off mean it remembers the last directory?  Or do you
mean between sessions?

> 5) On windows it would be nice if the file-open dialog takes a HOME
> environment variable into account. At least for me 'Desktop' isn't a
> good choice for $HOME

You can set this in the program options for work directory which will
be where blue starts for open/saving blue projects.  The other dialogs
I think just start at $home.

What might be possible is to make all dialogs just remember where they
last were, even between sessions.  We could get rid of the blue work
dir in the program options altogether then as every dialog would just
start where it last was. Does this make sense to do?

> BlueShare works great btw. Can't wait for an instrument/udo integration.

Thanks!  I've worked out the user account stuff now so when you sign
up you get an email to activate the account, and if you forget you
enter in your email and you follow a link to reset your email, so it's
now functioning at the same level and more than before.

It's been great to see your uploads too via RSS, which I think will
help us all know what's getting put into the server.  The UDO
integration will be in as soon as I can get to it! =)

steven