-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Line of Controllers: WAS: Missing features From: D. Michael McIntyre <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 01/18/10 21:51 > On Monday 18 January 2010, Christopher Cherrett wrote: > > >> When you are able to draw a line of controllers in Thorn how many events >> will it create? >> > > I have no idea, because this doesn't exist yet. What we have so far is a > grand plan and no code. Chris Fryer wants to do some nice top shelf stuff > with Bézier curves and control points where you adjust the lines and meta- > events get generated automatically to follow smoothly along (presumably at > some high resolution). At the moment, this is all vapor, and we have nothing > to stand in for it. > > I mean to have a look at getting something cheap and working done in the > interim. I have *not* looked at any of the code whatsoever, but the idea I > have is to make it work like drawing a line in the GIMP. Click to set a > point, if you hold shift, you drag around a rubber line connecting back to > that point, and when you click a new point, you get a line between them. > > I'm expecting serious pitfalls, but I don't know what they are yet. I'm > prepared to settle for anything that any kind of works, as it would be better > than nothing at all. > > >> In the old RG it created 8 events per bar I think it was. In oomidi I >> increased this to add as many events based on the grid designation. So >> if you selected a grid of 1/64 it would write 64 events per bar. This >> allowed for a much smoother transition in say volumes. >> > > It's hard to say how this will work in Rosegarden, since rulers exist in the > notation editor as well, and there's no grid there. There probably isn't a > really clean way to make using a grid designation, if available, work. > > This is all speculation at this point, not having looked at the code. I'll > say I plan to err on the side of setting the resolution too high, and if > there's only one resolution, it will be 64th notes. Bearing in mind, please, > that time is limited, and my first priority is to get *something* done. > > >> I must say oomidi had the controller lanes in nice shape for editing. >> The curves will be nice if they get up to speed. >> > > Yeah. If. If not, it wouldn't be the first time somebody had big ideas, and > not enough time to implement them. > > We'll see how it all goes. If none of this gets done for February, the > release goes as scheduled anyway. There's always 10.04. I'm putting in > every > minute I have to put in, and none of this is getting held up because I have a > personal life, because I don't. > Well it is a relief to hear you have no personal life :) </joke>
64th events would be great as a starting point. It sucks that this is on your plate but I am sure you can get something reasonable working. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
