[Asaph-developers] wxAsaph 0.0.2

[David F. <da...@sj...>]

OK, have added support for indexed databases and an initial fullscreen 
display (some support for second monitor too)
http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/wxasaph-0.0.2.zip

David

David Fraser wrote:

> Hi
>
> Finally found the time to put together an initial start at displaying an
> Asaph database without chords in wxPython, aim is to head towards a
> presentation-mode program as discussed before.
> So far loads a list of sings, lets you select them and displays the song
> lyrics in the main part of the screen. No nice fonts, and only handles
> simple databases (but should be easy to enhance).
> Main initial goal is to work towards a fullscreen display, particularly
> on a second screen - our church has just bought a new projector and are
> wanting to display lyrics, I want to use Asaph.
> Code is at http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/wxasaph-0.0.1.zip - requires 
> wxPython and elementtree from effbot (I'm using wxPython 2.4 and 
> Python 2.3.3 on Linux). Any feedback/contributions appreciated
>
> Regards
> David
>
> Daniel Azuma wrote:
>
>> If you folks are interested in pursuing this yourselves, I'd be happy 
>> to provide whatever support I can, on the file format, on my 
>> classes/interfaces if you want to use them, and so forth. I also have 
>> a whole bunch of ideas on the design and features for a presentation 
>> mechanism.
>>
>> Anyway, if you want to pursue this, let me know, and I can start a 
>> developers mailing list for it (so we don't burden this list with 
>> developer discussion.)
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On Mar 09, 2004, at 22:44, David Fraser wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure Daniel will answer you since he is the real developer!
>>> But it's nice to see someone else wanting to do stuff in Python ...
>>> This is a feature I have been very keen to see as well, although I 
>>> think what is really needed is a presentation-mode program that 
>>> would let you use any songs from the main database if required, but 
>>> would have a shortlist that would be quick to select from ...
>>> The question is what is the best way to quickly develop something 
>>> like this?
>>> One option would be to use Jython, since then all the layout and 
>>> database reading classes from the main app could be used, and we'd 
>>> have Python for quick development...
>>> But I have no experience with Jython.
>>> Otherwise the layout + database classes could be reimplemented in 
>>> Python, or finally (the obvious) the new stuff could just be coded 
>>> in Java...
>>>
>>> If this was only used for projecting the words and not the chords, 
>>> the layout would be much simpler, so the chord layout wouldn't have 
>>> to be done at first.
>>> And since the database stuff is in XML, that should be easy.
>>>
>>> Anyway just throwing around some ideas...
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> Sandra Capri wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just downloaded Asaph 0.5.1 a few nights ago, and have been running
>>>> through the menus, as well as the README.html file, and I am very
>>>> impressed with all the excellent features! I have been playing around
>>>> with creating a similar program (in Python), and came to the 
>>>> realization
>>>> that it is a lot more work than I first thought. I'm thrilled to find
>>>> that someone has done that work for me!
>>>>
>>>> I seem to be unable to figure out how to display the song 
>>>> presentation,
>>>> once it has been setup. I am imagining that we would enter all of our
>>>> songs into an indexed database, then for a given service, create a
>>>> simple database containing just the songs that we sing that night. At
>>>> that point, I would have expected to select a menu item that would
>>>> display the first song - words only, covering the whole screen. 
>>>> Then it
>>>> would allow the song leader to go through each song in order (such as
>>>> clicking the mouse button for the next song). Since we have a
>>>> projector, this is the way we allow the congregation to see the 
>>>> words to
>>>> the song.
>>>>
>>>> How do I do this? Or is this a future feature?
>>>>
>
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