Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Qt4

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Thursday 26 July 2007 22:42, M. Donalies wrote:
> But on the up-side, it's a good time to weed out some of the
> constructs that were designed without consideration of tablature or
> percussion. And we might even get that elusive grand staff. :)

Yes, exactly.

> Are you thinking of going with a unicode font? Supposedly, you can
> get to the musical characters in Qt4.

Yes, I think you probably can, although I haven't tested it properly 
yet.  But at least to start with I think we should leave the low-level 
rendering code alone, as it's about the only bit that does actually 
work as well as we need it to.  And there aren't any Unicode music 
fonts anyway.  We've already had to provide extensions to the Unicode 
codepoint names in our own mapping files to accommodate the characters 
we need that aren't in Unicode.

> Do we have a version or codename for the Qt4 version?

I'm working with codename "Kiftsgate", which is a rather marvellous old 
English rose.  My parents-in-law have one in their garden.  It's tangly 
and gnarly and a big old mess, so perhaps not the perfect role model, 
but I like the word.

I don't even want to think about thinking about version numbers at the 
moment!


Chris