> > On 4 Mar 2013, at 18:32, Greg Ercolano wrote: > > > Ya, technically I'd agree it's best to use a font.. > >=20 > > 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. > > > >=20 > > 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... > > > > >>=20 > >> And I was rushing anyway...! > >=20 > > 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... That was exactly what I envisioned. Spot on! > > >=20 > > 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! > > Yes! Kudos on a nice program. And thanks for the updated version. I actually wiped windows off of my home machine - just running a single boot of Ubuntu I but have access to Win7 and OSX at work and can install Msys at work to run your update. We had a snow day today so I will have to check it out tomorrow. Thanks again.
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