On Monday 15 October 2007, Yves Guillemot wrote: > New features : > - In notation view, display a header at left of each staff > This header displays : > - Current Clef and key at the left edge of the notation window > - Track number and label > - Transposition (if not 0) > - Segment label
I can't figure out the rules and/or this isn't behaving consistently. I'm having trouble getting the headers to appear, and then having trouble getting the headers to display anything. It seems to work better when I have more segments instead of fewer. > - When segments are superimposed, some elements may be drawn in red : > - Clef and key when clefs or keys are inconsistent > - Segment Label when segment labels are inconsistent > - Track name and transposition when transpositions are inconsistent This doesn't seem quite right somehow. I chose a random example with two different clefs, but the same key. The whole header shows up in red, and it looks like one of the conflicting clefs (but not both) is drawn at least twice, overlapping itself, and so is the key signature. Plus the entire staff turns red. Not sure if that's by design. > - Some track and segments properties are shown as a "tooltip" when the > mouse is moved over the header. This is a little cryptic to me. "3-293 tr=0 (foo)" or something. Actually, it's less cryptic when I think about it a minute. It actually said '[3-293] (tr=0) : "Church Organ"' Segment from bar 3 to bar 293, not transposed, etc. Anyway, I quite like the idea, and would just need to play a little in the real world to see if I thought it needed any tweaking. > - A blue box drawn around the header shows which track is the current one Sounds like a good idea, but it isn't happening here. > Still to do : > - Improve the header aspect ans size Yes, it's all a bit too big, I think. This is probably annoyingly obtrusive enough at 1280x1024 that I'd want this off most of the time, and on a 1024x768 or smaller screen, it would be almost unusable. I wonder how much you could shrink it though, because: 1) we don't have any way to draw clefs or key signatures in miniature (do we?) 2) if you drew everything in miniature, it would be out of proportion to the staff and/or the header staff would be out of proportion to the staff it's associated with One way or the other, some kind of quick single key toggle might be nice too. The way P is supposed to toggle the whole parameters panel in the main window, or the way T does toggle the floating transport. (The P toggle is not working for me today. This might be a bug, and maybe an ancient one, as I probably haven't tried to use that in a year or more.) > Thanks to test and to tell me what should be improved. It's a really fantastic start so far, Yves. I know you said something about this idea a bit back, but having an implementation that comes pretty close to a usable state dropped off in one whack like that is rather exciting, I must say. I can definitely see where this would be useful, and I pronounce it an official Quality Feature(tm). :D Very nice work! -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
