On Wednesday 13 December 2006 7:33 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > The help is supposed to say what you can do in the current state, so if all > it says is "Hold Shift to avoid snapping to grid" (or whatever the wording > is) and you hold Shift, it should go empty. Is that all that's happening?
Yes. It just seems a little odd. It holds your hand up to there, and then suddenly you're on your own. I don't know that I have a suggestion what it should say here. If we're good at anything around here, it's quibbling over the most insanely trivial bits of nothing. > (Unlike the status bar in Inkscape, which truncates long texts, KDE's > status bar resizes itself and the whole application window to fit if you > put a long text in it. I think that's silly, but it seems to be what we > have.) Quality. > You use quite a big font, don't you? 13 pt. I think. Bigger than standard, but not "quite big" I wouldn't say. Mom uses gigantic fonts, so mine seem positively small in comparison. > Apart from moving the note > descriptions to the right end (which I didn't try, but thought would seem > wrong), I find I have to agree. > matrix windows. Try giving it a tweak if you like (the sizes are just > hardcoded in MatrixView somewhere). I'll try to find something that works here and at Mom's if I can be bothered to tinker with it. If it doesn't go too big at Mom's (1024x768 with ~18 pt. fonts) it should be fine. > Between the Grid size and Quantize menus in the matrix toolbar there is now > a Velocity menu. Menu? That's what confused me. To my mind, it's a combo box on a toolbar, not a menu. > note, or the mean velocity of the selected group. Or you can select some > notes, dial a velocity and choose Adjust -> Set Current Velocity (or > whatever). Ah, I missed the Set Current bit. Let me try that again. Yeah, OK. Not exactly intuitive. I was expecting just changing the box while I had a selection would do the trick. No idea what people will make of that, but it works when you know how to work it. > Note that stretching and squashing MIDI segments is nothing new -- we've > had that for ages (although you couldn't do it just by Ctrl-dragging as you > can now). What's new is doing it for audio segments too. Right, I do understand that. It's a bit easier to wind up with a complete notation mess doing it this way though, because it's potentially less precise than dialing the new length into the clunky Stretch or Squash dialog widgets. Convenience vs. precision. I'm not complaining about this useful innovation. I have no idea if timestretching audio will prove useful, but it's an interesting toy. All of which makes me wish you could do it on the fly and make some 1/2X and 2X transport buttons like Pedro and I have been pining for since time immemorial, whose original objection, from Rich, was how the hell do you play everything 2X when there are audio segments involved? Hrm. That would be very, very useful, but it wouldn't be reasonable to have to endure a discrete stretch and recalculate step. > > and explain about the stretching and whatnot in the main window too. > > Er, I thought I had? I missed it, because the messages were in a different place compared with the matrix. > Sounds like your rosegarden-audiofile-importer is reporting itself as not > working. Try I had "resample" installed. Oh. Will test again. I installed sox, because it was the only one installable. > The icon's still there for me. Some problem in your rosegardenui.rc? A > Subversion conflict maybe? No, bloody hell, it's just in a different place, and I'm blind. > text wasn't strictly accurate, but I think maybe Manage Audio is fuzzy > enough to get away with?) It might be at that. > Both of these also suggest the importer simply isn't being used at all, > which should happen if it fails the configuration test on startup. This and rosegarden-lilypondview and rosegarden-project-packager should probably all report their findings as [x] don't show again-able notification dialogs, I think. > I want to do a popup on startup if you've changed the JACK sample rate > since the last time you saved a project that you had imported audio files > into. But I haven't got around to it yet. OK. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
