Re: [Zinf-devel] New Music Browser

[David H. <da...@th...>]

I would be quite happy to have a go at finishing the gtkmm musicbrowser. 
However, as i started this as a learning c++ execrcise i didn't sit down 
and decide upon the best way to structure to it. So before I go any further 
with it I thought it would be any idea to see what ideas other people had 
about this. For instance if there are glaring design issues that need to be 
addressed, or what functionality people want to see in the music browser, 
etc...

Obviously any contributions would be very much appreciated as well. At the 
moment I'm going back through what I've I already done to see what 
improvements I can make, especially in the area of memory managment and 
speed, as at the moment it can be very slow with large amounts of tracks 
and also it creates almost all the gtk widgets even if they are not needed 
by the current view.

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:14:09 -0700, Kristian Kvilekval <kr...@cs...> 
wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:05, David Hough wrote:
>> Having a reasonable amount of time on my hands and wanting to learn c++, 
>> i thought i give rewriting the musicbrowser using gtkmm a go thinking 
>> the basics couldn't be that hard. I have since realised my mistake, 
>> however I have come up a half finished rewrite.
>>
>> So here it is, the rather large patch is at http://www-
>> users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/newbrowser.diff
>>
>> there are also a couple of screenshots at http://www-
>> users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/screenshot1.png (in a new view mode) and 
>> http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~djh123/screenshot2.png (in the old 2 pane 
>> setup)
>
> I think this a good move. Does anybody else have strong feelings
> whether to stay with pure gtk or use a wrapper library?
>
> Are you planing to finish this patch?
>
> I was also experimenting with wxwinddows to see how
> difficult it would be create a version of zinf
> using a cross platform ui.   This would make it
> alot easier for win32/unix to stay aligned.
> Unofrtunately, I didn't get very far.   It would
> be great if somebody could try to get either
> the musicbroswer or the main player to run with
> that library.
>
>



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