On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:10 am, Jaakko Kyro wrote:

> How about presenting a "Remember this" button that would allow
> saving/modifying a preset? It would help aggregating the presets by
> contribution. I think that the actual persistence mechamism will be
> quite easy to do.
>
> I agree that once the collection is done, it's probably going to be
> quite static.

I think I'm going to get it done first, and worry about nice things like that 
if people ask for them later.

So my current immediate plan is to forget about the styles-like mechanism, and 
get this done by writing a cheap little script to convert a plain 
text .conf-like file to generated C++ code at build time; something similar 
to how UIC converts QT Designer files into code at build time.

That doesn't lend itself to some kind of "remember this" editable paradigm at 
all, but such an editable paradigm frankly involves a ton of work.  Inventing 
a new file format with a new MIME type, a place to put system files of this 
type, a place to put user files, code to install all of this stuff, code to 
save and read it.  It probably takes an hour if you already know how to do 
all of that, but I'd have to figure so much out from scratch that it feels 
like a mountain.

Maybe somebody else can do that later.  The most important thing is to get 
something working at all.  I have the track level transpose property working 
now.  The others are all going to be harder, but doable.

Divide and conqueror.

(Actually, I have it working, but I'm not sure if it gets saved and re-loaded.  
Probably not.  There sure are a lot of divisions to conqueror with this work.  
I'm out of my mind for trying to do this.)

> I'd be happy to help, my time is a bit limited though.

I've just gotten a message from someone who used to teach instrumentation, who 
has volunteered to help with assembling this database.  As you would expect, 
I have graciously accepted this offer of assistance!

I hope we can come up with something extensive enough to forestall user 
criticism about how the facility can't be customized (yet?).

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D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre  ----   Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/


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