[Asaph-developers] Re: [Asaph-users] How to generate presentation for group worship?
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From: Sandra C. <sc...@sp...> - 2004-03-15 16:02:09
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I played with openLP a little last night. I run Windows 2000 in a vmware window on my Fedora machine. I don't know if running vmware hindered the program any, but (like David) I couldn't see full functionality - my guess is that it's still a pretty early version. My thoughts: negative: Doesn't appear to support chords - the guitar players at my church are pretty excited about Asaph's chord support. positive: quick search for lyrics or author - "hmm, I don't remember the title of the song, but I know it has 'Hallelujah what a saviour' in it - Oh look - that's 'Man of Sorrows'. negative: the search doesn't ignore punctuation, so I actually had to search for "hallelujah! what a saviour" positive: very easy to create presentations from the song db - when the program starts up, you see a list of songs available. Click on a song to select it, then hit a button to add it to the current presentation. This is exactly what I need for our song leader. She's the one that creates our song presentations for the song service, and she *really* wants something just that easy. She hates having to use Powerpoint (actually, now openoffice presentations) to create the song list. positive: Easy to add background picture and change fonts (and color of fonts) in a song (though it looks like it currently enforces the same color and backgrounds for all songs - a negative in my opinion). Interesting features: it looks like the author is planning to allow you to put other things into the presentation - such as any Bible verse, powerpoint presentation, or video. Cool idea. Non-existant feature: A feature we really want is during the display of the presentation, if the song leader decides on a song in the middle of the service, have some way to throw in another song quickly. David - as to your comments - I guess I'm of Daniel's opinion currently - I would also like to focus on the base Asaph application. In the future it may be very nice to be able to import/export between the applications. Asaph has some really cool features (like the optional chord display) that would probably be difficult to add to OpenLP, or implement in a standalone presentation program. Just my $.02 worth. -- Sandra Capri <sc...@sp...> |