Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] First step towards support for the Yamaha SY85

[Peter G. <pet...@gm...>]

Hi

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Daniel Rosenstark <
dr....@co...> wrote:

> Hello all:


>
> About a year ago I started with JSynth and then ended up giving up and
> creating my product as a standalone Java app (
> www.confusionists.com/handsonic). Now I've given up on hardware entirely,
> so
> I'm out of the JSynth game completely. Which is not really relevant :)
> (BTW,
> the product receives tons of downloads and I've even made enough to buy a
> few pizzas in the last year.)


Good luck and 'bon apetit' ;-)

Regarding the Java question, I just wanted to plug Netbeans[snip]



I see the Netbeans (6.0.1) GUI builder is using private void
initComponents() { ... }
to initialize forms.
That's probably not a good idea, to start using the Netbeans way of building
a GUI for a JSynthLib driver.
Also, I couldn't find the Widgets provided by JSynthLib, only DKnob seemed
available,
to import in the
'palette'<http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqFormUsingCustomComponent>.
Some tools for building the GUI in an IDE would be handy imho.
For now, I'm just using Gimp <http://www.gimp.org> and it's layers to sketch
a lay-out <http://spd-11.wikispaces.com/file/view/PatchEditorGUI-3.png> for
my Roland SPD-11 driver.
A .zip containing .png pics of the components made available by JSynthLib
would be easy to get started quick (using photoshop or gimp).

I don't know if I should start a JSynthLib topic on
java-forums<http://www.java-forums.org/>or
sun-java-forums <http://forums.sun.com/> or ask my questions here, actually,
after finishing my driver project, I can imagine I wouldn't go looking again
for answers to questions posted on this list. But Java lovers (or how should
I call them) on a java forum might do some research for newbies simply out
of interest for Java code.



>
> Best of luck,
> Daniel
>

Again, good luck to you too, I hope your few pizzas will taste very good.
Peter