2009-07-03 21:34:53 UTC
Hello Cecilio,
As a MS VisualStudio programmer, I am deeply impressed by the work you have done to create the concept and do the programming of LenMus. It is of a really high quality! And all that in your spare free time, chapeau!
50 years ago I got some 15 years classical piano lessons to discover afterwards, that I could play any popular song. I tried to learn to improvise on the piano, but the sequences I play, are coming out of my muscles quite autonomously without knowing exactly what and why my fingers are doing what they do.
To overcome my degrading memory and to find out the best chords sequences, I created a windows database wrapper around a SQLite database. That database contains now some 4500 leadsheets and the wrapper program shows the selected title in pdf format and in A4 size on a secundary display that is fixed on my electronic grandpiano.
Next thing I would like to add, is an extra tab in the wrapper, on which I can show chords and chord-sequences at choice. Stead of inventing the wheel and coding all that by myself, I searched the internet for a music library that would display the chords in a viewport as part of my wrapper program. I found none. But from the 6 score editors I found, your LenMus is by far my favourite.
So here is my question / suggestion which could possibly be linked with the earlier suggestion of the full-screen display.
If you can find the time to tell me which source-files (and in which flow) are involved in the process from lms script to screen-display, I could try to make a library that includes that functionality. Such a library will meet more than only my needs I guess!
I am not using wxWindows, instead I make my own wrappers around the win32 GUI API's (much smaller executables!). But if I succeed in creating that library, it can also be used by wxWindows (and other) users.
If you agree, I will not start coding before next autumn, so don't hurry!
Anyhow, thank you very much for spending your time for reading my message and I hope to hear from you.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Dael
The Netherlands
