On 4 Mar 2013, at 18:32, Greg Ercolano wrote: > Ya, technically I'd agree it's best to use a font.. > > Though from a practical point of view, I've found over time > anything you can do to minimize modification of the OS to use > an app is often worth doing, even if it's at the expense of doing > what seems right design-wise.
If there's a suitable "music" font installed then it all Just Works anyway. The only issue is if you want to distribute a font in your app, rather than installing it - then you get into platform-specific stuff to load the fonts at runtime... Which is a nuisance. The Win32 is possibly the least hassle as it turns out! Anyway, I tried my code under OSX and linux and it does work - but then I have the Musica font installed on those test machines, so that's hardly representative. > > I'd probably do the same trick for drawing the notes; looking closely > at the 'dots' at the bottom of notes in sheet music, they aren't > just an ellipse, but are tweaked on the diagonal too. Tough to do > with FLTK's simple circle functions (though probably easy with > svg vector images or cairo). Yup - svg would be nice, or Cairo. But picking the note heads out of the font works nicely too, so... >> >> And I was rushing anyway...! > > Great job on making a nice full on app with a 'game' twist to it. Thanks! The game aspect wasn't me though, that was just copying what I *think* Edgar said he was doing... > > I 'played' it for a while until I was quite sure the "EGBDCF"/"FACE" > memory trick I learned back in Mrs. Bruninghaus's third grade music > class > was still serving me well..! See - these things do stay with you! _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list fltk@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
