Re: [Wxlua-users] DX7-EDIT. A wxLua program.

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John Labenski <jla...@gm...> wrote:
(19/08/2005 19:05)

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>Looks very impressive, I'll check it out this weekend, does it even
>run if you don't have a Yamaha DX7 keyboard?
>

Yes. :) That's one of the cool things about it, you can work with SysEx files in the ansence of any hardware other than host machine for DX7-EDIT, but there's no substitute for using a synthesiser to get the full sense of why this might be truly useful. If you were ever thinking about getting an FM synthesizer, I'd suggest the FS1R, there is never likely to be a better one, unless someone starts where that left off. It's a small 1 unit rack, but it's not cheap or commonly found.

>One thing I noticed about the code though, you used absolute sizes for
>things. You may want to use wxSizers in case someone uses a different
>(larger) default font size. You can use wxGlade,
>http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/ , to get a good idea how sizers work
>by creating different things and looking at the output. It should be
>easy to translate it from either c++ or python to wxLua. I think you
>can even keep the code the same, just add the controls to the sizers
>you create at the end of each page. This will keep the code pretty
>clean.
>

I know.. I decided early on to do this though, for now. I wanted a very compact GUI. I thought that maybe sizers might cause some problems I can't even predict as easily as I can the effects of a large font in this thing, so I decided to let this go and see what kind of feedback I get, and once I see what sorts of problems happen, I'll test sizers and changes to fixed sizes too, to see what will work. So much of this thing started out with fixed sizes, the only thing to do, for now, was to be consistent. :)