Re: [Rosegarden-devel] progress

[Guillaume L. <gla...@te...>]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 13:26, Richard Bown wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12:24 pm, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > Said scheme being to use a repeating segment. However while working
> > on this I've been stumped on two problems :
> >
> > - should that segment be stored (in the Document's configuration or
> > in the global one ? Or both, the first overriding the latter ?) or be
> > generated ? (I'd go for storage - much simpler)
>
> Are you talking about the metronome parameters rather than just the
> segment?

The "metronome" segment itself.

> We already store those in too many places - surely generating a
> metronome segment is easy enough - look at the existing metronome code.

Yes, but what if we want to allow the user to edit the metronome pattern ? And 
also, while it is certainly easy to generate one, it's even easier not to 
:-).

> Well there's already lots of code that'll tell you where the time sig
> changes are.  I'd suggest generating and auto segment based on those
> details and updating that mapped segment everytime a time sig is modified.

I'm not sure if we can do that on the fly while playing...

> Storing a segment with these values in them as part of the Composition
> would be just yuck.

Doesn't gross me out that much...

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