Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Another thing we could have is a save option in mmpz which prefixes the word template - before the file name itself On 8 May 2014 23:37, "David Gerard" wrote: > On 8 May 2014 22:31, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > This might be a bit off topic, but why dont we get rid of the mmpt format > > and

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 May 2014 22:31, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > This might be a bit off topic, but why dont we get rid of the mmpt format > and use mmpz as the template file format of choice. An mmpt is just an mmpz with a different extension, isn't it? I can see that being useful for keeping straight which fi

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
This might be a bit off topic, but why dont we get rid of the mmpt format and use mmpz as the template file format of choice. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:55 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 8 May 2014 18:35, Tobias Doerffel wrote: > > 2014-05-08 19:34 GMT+02:00 Tres Finocchiaro >: > > >> From my tes

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 May 2014 18:35, Tobias Doerffel wrote: > 2014-05-08 19:34 GMT+02:00 Tres Finocchiaro : >> From my testing, File --> Open still behaves this way as does the left pane >> navigator. The only way which behaves properly is the toolbar button. > The toolbutton is what I use and test. The regula

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Tobias Doerffel
2014-05-08 19:34 GMT+02:00 Tres Finocchiaro : > From my testing, File --> Open still behaves this way as does the left pane > navigator. The only way which behaves properly is the toolbar button. The toolbutton is what I use and test. The regular file open functionality probably should check the

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
> This does not happen if you open the templates from within LMMS > >From my testing, File --> Open still behaves this way as does the left pane navigator. The only way which behaves properly is the toolbar button. -Tres ---

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
This issue I found occurs when you go to file save as and choose the mmpt format though. on 1.0.2 it seems to save them as a mmpz On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Tobias Doerffel wrote: > 2014-05-08 17:47 GMT+02:00 David Gerard : > > I dunno, as a user I'd just like them to *act* more like templa

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Tobias Doerffel
2014-05-08 17:47 GMT+02:00 David Gerard : > I dunno, as a user I'd just like them to *act* more like templates. > > i.e., if I load a template right now, edit stuff and save it, it saves > as the template name. I'd expect it to save as a new file, since I > started with a template. This does not h

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Re reading my initial question I think at this point until more in depth work is done on templates, I think that the save dialogue should have that extension disabled for the time being. Where does one find a list of extensions? My idea at this stage is to comment it out and mention that this feat

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I agree templates are good to have especially if you have it setup to a > particular style you produce for. I wonder though code wise if the format > woudl be similar to that of saving an mmp or mmpz > > @toby any code pointers on how I c

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I agree templates are good to have especially if you have it setup to a particular style you produce for. I wonder though code wise if the format woudl be similar to that of saving an mmp or mmpz @toby any code pointers on how I can fix the mmpt issue for saving as it is currently it saves to an m

Re: [LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread David Gerard
On 8 May 2014 16:21, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > The question is at this stage is it a good idea to leave the mmpt format > visible in the save dialogue if its only going to export the files as mmpz's I dunno, as a user I'd just like them to *act* more like templates. i.e., if I load a template

[LMMS-devel] MMPT template format.

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Thanks to Tres and his patience with me trying to get lmms compiling from source I have now got a successful build system setup for mac and a missing piece of the puzzle for me added to his wiki on compiling for lmms. In testing some work that tres has been pulling his hair out over file type asso