Thorsten Wilms: >As the horizontal axis stands for time, i needed to express >the nesting only verticaly (plus color), so that's what the >round corners and the empty bottoms of the containers are >for. Maybe it helps when you think on Lisp and paranthesis, >only vertcaly.
Below is my (short) personal view on your design. Don't take it as an attack on your ideas, but a different persons opinion, and use it for what its worth. I think this kind of design of a graphical interface for western classical scores on a computer is inefficient because it wastes too much space on the computer screen. The result is that the composer needs to spend work doing too much navigation. Whats the point of visualy seeing the pitch of notes? You hear them much better. Just write the name of the notes instead of spending all that much vertical space. I spent three years coming up with this design: http://www.notam02.no/radium/ which I know (by personal experience) is a damn extreme efficient note/score editor. http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/v062_linux.png (linux screenshot) http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/radium-0.63.tar.bz2 (linux alpha)
