I should have something to present soon. For a variety of reasons, I bailed out on the "std form" tablature and have been working with the "compact form." In the InstrumentParameterBox, I added a combo box to select staff type and a dialog to edit the tuning (number of strings, open position pitch, and number of frets). All Segments on the track are displayed using the given staff type (StdStaff or TabStaff). Each track (or Instrument as it stands now) gets its own staff type and tuning. They all seem to display together happily in NotationView.
I created TabEventEditDialog, which is basically a SimpleEventEditDialog (the thing that pops up when an event in a staff is double clicked) with additional fields for tablature string and fret inputs. My two current main obstacles: 1) It seemed logical to attach the tuning to Instrument, but this will cause RG to crash if its run without the sequencer. Where else can I put it? Is Track a reasonable place? 2) When I edit a TabStaff event with TabEventEditDialog, the pitch, string, and fret data change just fine, but the staff display doesn't update properly. Fret numbers are properly modified, but there's no vertical movement (corresponding to changing a string in the dialog). Bringing up the dialog again shows the data correctly. It's just not being redrawn properly. I suppose this is a question for Chris. Where should I be looking for the culprit? Somewhere, and old vertical position isn't being updated in layout/display. A third thing I'm working on is where the automatic generation of tab data should go. I stuck it in the staff initialization for simplicity, but that's not a very good place. I'm thinking of putting it in with staff type / tuning selection. Whenever the tuning changes, the tablature gets regenerated. Once these three things are taken care of, a minimally functional tablature should be available (with essentially no extra hassles for those who don't want to use it). Thinking ahead, the next step is to come up with some sort of tablature insertion mode. Bringing up a dialog for each note is more than a little tedious. Also, I was thinking about how to display tablature effects. I'll probably start out with something simple, like vibrato. Most should be similar in implementation to existing notational effects. Bends will likely be the most difficult. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
