From: Jakob L. <jl...@im...> - 2008-07-31 00:40:22
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torsdag den 31. Juli 2008 01:58:22 skrev m.w...@gm...: > hey :-) > sorry!! > My english is not very well. > > > a) What's the idea behind pattern categories? Are they going to be used > > for anything, and why are they introduced now, in the supposed freeze > > period? > > a few month ago, I write a patch to make pattern save possible ( mauser > applied the patch into the svn ). pattern categories are a part ( > improvement ) of the pattern save feature. If you will play and work some > month with patterns, you get a lot of patterns inside your pattern library. > With this feature it would be more easy to arrange the pattern inside the > sound library (pattern library). In the moment pattern inside the > soundlibrary will grow and grow. > > Sorry, if this feature is more than an improvement for the pattern save > funktion I can remove it from svn. No, I don't think you should remove it, sounds like a good idea. Perhaps we'll come up with a better name for it once it's working fully, to make it easier to guess what it's used for. > > > b) What is the "beat counter?" > > I would be very happy for better translations. I'd like to help improve the wording, to make it more 'discoverable' (usabilitywise, this means that someone can guess what it does, and use it without having to read the manual - this is one of the great things about Hydrogen in the first place). - But I haven't figured out myself how to use it !?? I thought you wrote a mail or perhaps in the forum, but I can't find it now? Can you link to it, or explain it over? :-) > beat counter is my personal translation. > Do you think clock counter is better. ....Read this mail and you see my > problem :-) This whole list is like that - all italians and germans and danish and whatever, writing to each other in english :-D > > best regards > wolke > > > Am Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:32:02 +0200 > schrieb Jakob Lund <jl...@im...>: > > Hey > > A few critical questions. Please don't take offense... > > a) What's the idea behind pattern categories? Are they going to be used for > anything, and why are they introduced now, in the supposed freeze period? > > b) What is the "beat counter?" > > The tooltip strings for beatcounter and the text in the 'pettern > properties' dialog need to be updated, they are bogus (I'm not a native > english speaker myself, so I'm probably not all that much better, but hey - > "Key coma Handle beatcounter" sounds pretty weird...) These changes need to > be made soon, so anyone can make translations. > > Please explain, and/or debate :-) > > Jakob Lund > |