Sebastian Moors wrote: > Hi! > > I've experimented with a new interface type, a tabbed interface, for > hydrogen. It is meant as an alternave way of working with hydrogen. > Especially aimed at people with low screen resolutions. It keeps the > mixer, pattern editor and song editor in their own tabs. > You can get the code via our svn server: > svn co http://svn.assembla.com/svn/hydrogen/branches/tabbedInterface > > It would be cool if people with netbooks could try it and report which > parts of the gui make problems. Please understand this as a rough idea, > it would be nice to see if it helps.. > - Sebastian
Hi Sebastian / all, I am new here, but I have significant Linux development experience. I am a git guy like you (If I am not mistaken), and I checked out the tab interface code via git-svn after already grabbing it with svn. I am also a pretty good drummer who picked up the guitar and am at the intermediate stage with it. The feedback on tabbed interface follows, but first a quick note and question. I had to patch it to work with Mandriva 2010's Portaudio 19.13 and portmidi devel: Mandriva 2010.0.0 0.5 (cooker) ---------------------------------- libportaudio-devel-19-13mdv2010.0 libportaudio2-19-13mdv2010.0 portmidi-20070107-3mdv2009.0 libportmidi-devel-20070107-3mdv2009.0 libportmidi0-20070107-3mdv2009.0 libportmixer0-devel-18.1-8mdv2010.0 libportmixer0-18.1-8mdv2010.0 I couldn't just use the patches in the hydrogen patches subdir (though they helped), but I am not sure yet if this is a Mandriva specific issue or not. Once I know for sure I will feed back. I do know that on Mandriva I have to add an Sconstruct line to link with porttime and make some modofications to PortAudioDriver.h, PortMidiDriver.h, portaudio_driver.cpp and portmidi_driver.cpp If anyone has any info that might clarify things or save me some time here it would be appreciated. I can also send the patchfile here, or get it to whomever needs it for review, etc. Just let me know how things work with the hydrogen project these days. OK, back to the tabbedInterface feedback. Even though I have a dual head setup, I still like the idea of a tabbed interface since I use Ardour and a realtime kernel to do live signal processing like this: Ibanez Prestige RG1570 --> Joe Satriani(JS) Big Bad Wah --> JS Satchurator --> US122L --> Ardour 2.8.7 --> US122L --> Bugera Vintage 5 amp Then, for practice, I have added: Hydrogen --> JACK --> Ardour I really like the tabbed interface, but I am wondering how hard it would be to make it a bit more configurable. I like the pattern editor and song editor on the same page, since I find I have to switch tabs to change from pattern to pattern and then I don't see the pattern itself without switching back. If possible, it would be nice to be able to name tabs and select which parts of the interface show in which tab. Maybe even a configurable number of tabs, with each being able to have any combination, eg: -------------- ------- -------------------- ------------------ Tab 1 Tab 2 Tab3 Tab 4 Song + Pattern Song Pattern / Instrument Mixer + Instrument -------------- ------- -------------------- ------------------ Maybe right click on a tab to edit / delete /create a new tab. If that is too much work (and I would certainly understand if it is), or you just don't like the idea, then I would definitely put song and pattern in the same tab for the reason I stated above. OK. That's my 2 cents worth for now. Let me know what, if anything, you would like me to do about the patches I had to create to get 0.9.5-svn r1568 to build against the libs Mandriva is using. Thanks, Jim D. http://jdines.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
