#102 Possibility to have a parameter file to fix parameters

[cledesol]

As I am bassist, it would be very convenient for me to be able to start TuxGuitar with a fingered Bass 4 strings accorded as "E A D G".
Very nice also to have the printer parameters defined in such a file.
Could you think this is possible
(And sorry for my poor english ...)

[guiv]

Hi. It seems to me a possible solution could be to configure which file to open by default when TuxGuitar starts. Not 100% sure but I would bet it could be easy to implement. This way you could just create once an empty song with 1 track for your bass, and TuxGuitar would automatically open it each time it starts.
Do you think it would make sense?
(note: no idea how to handle printer parameters)

[cledesol]

Hi

yes this could be a workaround to start TuxGuitar in a more convinient way

Best regards

Le 28/05/2023 à 21:48, guiv a écrit :

Hi. It seems to me a possible solution could be to configure which
file to open by default when TuxGuitar starts. Not 100% sure but I
would bet it could be easy to implement. This way you could just
create once an empty song with 1 track for your bass, and TuxGuitar
would automatically open it each time it starts.
Do you think it would make sense?
(note: no idea how to handle printer parameters)

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[feature-requests:#102]
https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxguitar/feature-requests/102/
Possibility to have a parameter file to fix parameters

Status: open
Group: Next Release (example)
Created: Sun Apr 16, 2023 03:38 PM UTC by cledesol
Last Updated: Sun Apr 16, 2023 03:38 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

As I am bassist, it would be very convenient for me to be able to
start TuxGuitar with a fingered Bass 4 strings accorded as "E A D G".
Very nice also to have the printer parameters defined in such a file.
Could you think this is possible
(And sorry for my poor english ...)

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[guiv]

After having a look in the code, in fact there is already a way to do this, but it's definitely more a hack than a real solution. You can overwrite file tuxguitar_installation_path/share/templates/template-default.tg with a file containing 1 empty track with your bass, and it will open a copy of this file each time you launch TuxGuitar. Also when closing the last opened song, or with menu File/New. But not with 'Ctrl-N' shortcut. Note that it will impact all users on the machine.
I'm currently working on a clean manner to use a user-defined template, but it's a bit more complex than expected. I will post here if I can get it to work correctly, but this might take some time.

[guiv]

Feature is implemented in this fork, since it seems there is no more development going on here. Installable builds are available for Linux, windows, macOs and Android.
Feature is available through menu "File/Set custom template"