On 8/31/2011 4:14 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: > I ran into some rather tough jsynthlib admin's a couple of years back. I > think it was you Bill!
I don't think Bill is an "admin" (in the sense that he can't authorize people to upload to the svn repository); I think only Joachim and Brian are. The rest of us (about 15 others) have write-access to the svn, but we can't add people. > The only thing that drives me nuts about jsynthlib is the maddening process > of laying out widgets. There simply has to be either better documentation on > it or a better way of doing it. But maybe I just still don't know what I am > doing! About 4 years ago, I started on a massive (for me) re-factoring of the code. I moved everything into packages which compartmentalized what everything did (ie, a package for low-level MIDI message handling, a package for the main GUI, a package for the widgets, etc.). The two big hurdles were: 1 - Rewriting the low-level MIDI stuff. As I recall, sending and polling for MIDI signals was done with the GUI thread or something, so I made a new thread which would handle all queuing of MIDI messages and notify various sysex handlers that something had come in for them, etc. It made it so that I could write a little MIDI monitor window to watch incoming traffic, etc. 2 - Re-vamping the hierarchy of the JSynthlib widgets. It turns out that the basic JSynthlib window was named something strange, which made it hard to get up to speed on how to make a new synth-lib module. Anyway, as you can imagine, with a huge refactor like that, there were tons of compile errors as I changed around the way things were invoked, etc. When I ran out of steam on it, I think there were still a handful of errors that I couldn't really figure out how to best solve... so I never committed the changes. Since the project is so dormant, I'm tempted to dig the code up again and commit it just to see if it generates some renewed interest... - Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Jsynthlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jsynthlib-devel
