Re: [Asaph-developers] pyasaph 0.1

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

Sandra Capri wrote:

>David,
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>This is exciting news!!  It sounds like development is doing well!
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>>A bit hairy as we only had a single display output so we had to keep 
>>turning them off to switch songs etc, but it worked.
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>Hmm, so is it required to use 2 video cards?  This could cause a problem
>for those using notebook computers (2nd video can be expensive there). 
>That isn't our situation - I have an extra video card to put in the
>tower we use.
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No, it is not required. You can set whether to use the primary display 
or a secondary display.
In wx 2.5 upwards, it can automatically detect the displays, in wx 2.4 
it guesses based on the main screen size.
But there is no User interface for this yet, just command line options.
But a lot of notebook computers, you can have the display output through 
the video out as a secondary display.

The main problem with only having a single output is that people 
watching the projection will see the switch of the screen, and selection 
of songs.
But we can add code to minimize this

>>  easy way to display notices
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>Agreed, this would be very nice.  The preacher might want to be able
>to seamlessly go into his slides for his/her teaching as well - is
>this a possibility?
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Well tonight we had a few presentations (using PowerPoint) - its fairly 
easy to just switch programs.
The idea of notices was for things like people who've left their car 
lights on, etc - displaying it over the text of the song for a while.
I've started adding some code for this now but haven't got it working 
nicely yet.

>>I have also written a sxw2asaph script (included) that tries to convert 
>>an OpenOffice document to a song database.
>>A bit like the import songs feature except it can handle multiple songs 
>>in a file (and doesn't yet include the chords)
>>We've used this to convert songs (a few missing lines though)
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>Excellent!  All of our songs are in various openoffice files.  Some
>songs are 1 per file, and some are several per file.  I was really
>hoping for this import feature (and a script is an excellent way to
>accomplish this).  Thank you!
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Great, you should just be able to do:
 ./sxw2asaph.py *.sxw -o test.adml
There could be more improvement on the import, and how it detects 
different songs etc... but all in good time.

>When things settle down around home, I'm hoping to download and try out
>pyasaph.  I've told our songleaders it's coming, and they're excited
>about it.
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>For anyone on the mailing list that is familiar with Tkinter, but not
>wxPython (like myself), there is an interesting article at:
>http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/196
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>which gives a comparison.  It's kind of based around mswindows thought,
>but since we're talking about python, it mostly applies to the Linux
>world as well (it also compares PythonWin for those familiar with that)
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Great

David