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

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

Hi Daniel, all ...


> I do NOT use (nor believe in, but I could be convinced) any Swing
> designers.
> I wrote all of my Swing code by hand, using the designer in JBuilder (still
> out there somewhere) to figure out how to do certain things layout-wise.


I too believe after some study work, it must be possible for a coder to
write by hand.
After all, you had to write library support first, so you have to be able to
write UI code by hand.


> I don't know the state-of-the-art regarding Swing designers (nor have I
> ever
> looked at Netbeans for anything but straight code/refactoring/SVN), but my
> opinion from what I've seen is that it's hard going. Real code always
> causes
> designers to break.


So what would it do to musicians ? Anyway, if someone wants to get his hands
dirty on System Exclusive, there must be some coders-spirit already. Just
make a switch from design-mode to code-mode in the little grey cells ...


> (Irrelevant but noteworthy: .Net winforms designer in
> VS2005 or 2008 is great, and can handle your code moving forward).


How do you mean "can handle your code forward" ?
Do you mean like JSynthLib is "stuck" in an old way of coding software ?


> Out of curiosity: what is wrong with the initComponent? It's probably
> called
> by the constructor, and if not, you can always make it public...


Hm, thanks for the tip, I'll investigate it because I didn't know why it
would be wrong.
I simply didn't see it used in other editors, and jumped to conclusions ...
(I still have to test my first patchEditor)


> That said, if I were to do any Java projects right now, I would take a
> serious look at whether the UI could be done with QT or something. *Not
> sure
> if that would jive with the Swing stuff that JSynth is already using.*


Well, that looks interesting, I found this project on Sourceforge:
QtJava <http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtjava/> but it's like no longer
supported or developed.

I guess I'm having enough extra work already 'blogging' about writing a
driver,
it's probably best if I just do it the traditional JSynthLib way.

BTW, I have some troubles opening the preferences window in JSynthLib, but
I'll write about that under another subject title, tomorrow, maybe ...

Happy summertime ;-)
Peter