On Thursday 28 October 2004 08:05 pm, Mark Hymers wrote: > The idea is that you can see where you have different sections of the > orchestra/band/whateveryoucallit doing what. I realise this is probably > more applicable to 'classical' type composition than 'modern' type stuff. > > If that's bollocks then I can always run up a quick patch to change the > defaults to simple colour names :-) Hopefully I'll get around to some > proper coding again at some point...
I think it is bollocks, really. I can always tell what's doing what because I can see what the track labels are. It might be different if they stayed stuck to the left margin, and scrolled off, but they're always right there. I find in practice that names like "harpsichord" encourage me to use that color for all the harpsichord parts, and then I'm actually reluctant to use any other color on that track. It seems to defeat the purpose somewhat because I'm inclined to use the color to mark off this is the A part and this is the B part and so forth. Really convenient when arranging bits of recycled this and that into something. Of course nothing is stopping me from creating custom colors, but I still feel pretty strongly that it would be more reasonable just to offer a selection of colors with neutral, generic names. Since you're around, why not take a look at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1039599&group_id=4932&atid=104932 and see if you can make anything of it. There's some flake here. It seems harmless enough, in that it doesn't actually result in a crash, but I keep winding up with no "stock" colors, and then I go make some, save, reload, and wind up with something like what's attached to that bug, where there are two conflicting ideas about what the colors are. I'm probably never going to actually dig into that, so if you've a mind to poke around, maybe you can offer some insight. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ ------------------------------------------------------- This Newsletter Sponsored by: Macrovision For reliable Linux application installations, use the industry's leading setup authoring tool, InstallShield X. Learn more and evaluate today. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSI/go/ins0030000001msi/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
