Re: [Wxlua-users] Thinger. A DX7 editor for SysEx data transfer to DX7, FS1R etc.

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 6/21/05, The Doctor <the...@bl...> wrote:
> Just testing the mail for now, and saying I'm new to wxLua and I like it =
immensely. I'll turn over my project to help the cause, when it's done. To =
those who don't know the Yamaha DX7 synthesiser and the many compatible ins=
truments made in the 22 years since, the Thinger will just be an extensive =
example of slightly eccentric wxLua coding, but to those who make electroni=
c music, I hope it will be as useful to you as it already is to me. It's fu=
nctional, emulates the original DX7's use of Init, Edit/Compare and Recall =
buffers, but I'm next to work on operator copy and algorithm display, and o=
perations on 32-voice bank files.
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> I'll release this as a full v1, when it's at least as fuctional as an FM =
synthesizer should be, I expect this to be in anything up to about 6 weeks =
time, but it might be a lot less.
>

Let me be the first to say, welcome to wxLua. The app you're writing
sounds impressive, it'd be great to hear how things work or don't work
for you so we can patch up wxLua. There are so many components in
wxWidgets that it's impossible to test them all ourselves.

> One bit of help I could use is some helpful comments regarding MIDI. This=
 is a serial asycnchronous 31.25 Kbaud interface with 8 bits and a start/st=
op bit added to each byte, and a simple protocol with values over 127 as St=
atus bytes, the rest as Data bytes, making it a useful machine control tran=
smission with uses well beyone electronic music. This might excite someone =
into coding a library for wxLua. I hope. :) Right now I'm using a small Ger=
man app called SysEx, which takes a command line, but I want something that=
 doesn't pop up every time it's invoked.

I don't think anyone has any plans to implement this, but since this
is so specialized you're on your own in terms of what library to use.
We'd be happy to show how to write and implement wrapper for the lib
however.
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> Last question: Is there anything (or will there be something) that can co=
mpile a wkLua script with all resources into a standalone binary? This woul=
d make wxLua more attractive than Visual Studio, to me. And probably to a f=
ew thousand other people, I suspect.

This would be great, but this is probably going to be on the back
burner for awhile. Python can do it, so it must be possible.

> To end: I'll add posts if I run out of ideas while working, begging for h=
elp, but I won't ask before I solve most things as I prefer it that way. Al=
so, thans to John Labenski who has already helped a lot, and has helped lau=
nch this SourceForge effort, partly in response to my own wish that it migh=
t happen.
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For very general wxWidgets questions you can even post to the wx-users
list. People will probably show you how to do things in c++ however,
but it can probably be translated.
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> PS. Small buglet? wxTextCtrl has rthe wrong system colour for text. There=
 are at least two in MSwindows, and someone seems to have picked the wrong =
one. wxTE_RICH as style corrects this, but it would be nice to have it as d=
efault. :)

Humm, hopefully this will get sorted out in the next few weeks. We
can't test anything until the wrappers get fixed up though.

Regards,
    John Labenski

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