From: D. M. M. <mic...@ro...> - 2010-09-06 03:35:30
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On Sunday, September 05, 2010, ms...@us... wrote: > * Main issue was use of getEndMarkerTime which would report composition end > time instead of actual segmetn end time. Interesting wrinkle from this. My first thought was to wonder what would happen if I made the composition shorter than a given segment. Would the segment prevent the composition from shortening? No. Draw segment 10 bars long, set composition end to 6 bars, and it looks fine. Good. (Only tested with empty segments). So what happens if I move the segment around? If I move the segment to the left, the composition grows by a bit less than a bar. Eventually I can get the end boundary to snap to the full segment length. This feels kind of weird and unfinished, but it looks like it's more or less working without causing any of the issues I feared. This is probably why it's so hard to avoid accidentally expanding the composition, actually. Move a segment by a hair, and it grows to add a few trash beats on the end, screwing up your nice print-out. That's not a new problem. It's good somebody is getting something done around here. For my part, I'm in a really weird place. I think KDE started this when they wrecked Konqueror so badly I couldn't use it for anything at all, and I had to suck it up and get used to Firefox. I never wanted to run Firefox, but once you get used to it, Firefox is the same everywhere. Once you start using Firefox for half your interactions with a computer, the underlying operating system doesn't much matter. So I got my wife a laptop, and I booted Windows, and it worked, and I felt no desire to go to the trouble of ripping it out. I installed my usual FOSS stuff on there, and it's almost like Linux. All it lacks is Rosegarden. So I'm feeling like if there is anything left that could rekindle my spark, it could be a Windows port of Rosegarden. That is not a statement of intent at all. It just seems like the only thing left that might really grab my attention, if anything still can. -- D. Michael McIntyre |