From: Silvan <dmm...@us...> - 2003-05-29 12:54:35
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On Thursday 29 May 2003 04:31 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > > Actually, that could eat a _lot_ of room. What if the user selects some > > note 15 ledger lines above the staff or something? > > That's where those nice one-octave/two-octave transposing clefs we > haven't got yet will come in handy. I was thinking roughly the same thing, actually. Also, it would be handy i= f=20 the pitch inputs could take a note from the keyboard. I wouldn't want to d= o=20 this for duration or velocity, but for selecting pitches this is the usual= =20 thing. (MIDI keyboard, I mean...) Is there some widget that already does= =20 that, which I could pirate? > > I can send you a screenshot of the dialog I'm patterning mine after if > > you'd like. > > Yeah, go ahead. OK. I'll just tarball some stuff for you to look at. May as well get your= =20 opinion of the icon. I know you won't like it, Mikey, but you can have you= r=20 shot to tell me how much you don't like it, and then tell me how you want i= t=20 to look so we can get that out of the way. :) The current dialog in the screenshot has layout problems, but that's what's= in=20 my RG at the moment. It looks a little better than the first try, once you= =20 get past all the stuff getting cut off, and many of the widgets are doing=20 stuff now. I'm getting along with it fairly well. > perhaps. Or even > > [0 <>] to [100 <>] That one, I think. Or how about, so I don't have to rearrange the entire=20 layout again =46rom [0 <>] To [0 <>] > and that "[ ] not" checkbox, which is a little confusing to me > (because of the obvious proximity of the word "not" to the values > whether the box is checked or not), might work better as a combobox > containing two options (say, "in range" and "outside range" or > "within" and "outside" or something) -- then the whole could be > read straight through: > > [ ] Controller > > Number [in range v] [0 <>] to [100 <>] > Value [outside range v] [40 <>] to [127 <>] If you insist on eating the entire screen with another enormous dialog I=20 guess. Have to consider how "in range" might be translated too... [outside range v] [in range v] [dentro del alcance de v] [afuera del alcance de v] OTOH "not" probably translates to something succint in every language, whic= h=20 is why I chose it over other words. [x] not [x] no [x] non [x] no [x] non [x] nicht (?) [x] nyet (? OK, that's transliterated, but you get the idea) Plus my "not" is more clear than Cakewalk's "exc." which is just as ugly. So I'm not super eager to code a bunch of comboboxes that will cut into a=20 1280x1024 screen in Spanish if the user has a larger than average font (as = I=20 do myself, because big fonts are easy on the eye) and a widget style that h= as=20 larger than average buttons (like Keramik) but you're the boss, Jefe. Anyway, it won't change anything fundamental one way or the other, so I wil= l=20 carry on for now. May as well get the first one working before I tear it=20 apart and redo it again and again until it suits you. :) I'll send the tarball to you a bit later. Two dialog screenshots and an ic= on. =20 Too big for the list. =2D-=20 Michael McIntyre USDA zone 6b in SW VA, USA Silvan <dmm...@us...> Linux Druid =2D---------[ registered Linux user #243621 ]--------- http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/index.html |