Re: [Rosegarden-user] How to change MIDI program for midi out device lacking banks
On 29/01/13 00:50, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 01/28/2013 05:53 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > >> is: why if a MIDI device is lacking a bank mapping, can't one just edit >> back and program changes numerically (0-127)? >> Is it also simply a bug or is there some reason? > > It's a very old design decision. If there is no text defined for a > given number, Rosegarden hides that number from the user. I tried to > work around this years ago with a device definition containing nothing > but numbers. > > Even if that solution is good enough in general, it doesn't do you any > good if you can't access the damn device manager to load the thing, does it? ... > live with it > like everybody else, and simply change nothing. Could you use the Alt > key to drag the dialog around without its title bar? Ahh true, for some reason wasn't thinking of that trick :) Do you have > something in place that's overriding the 9 pt. fonts it's set to use? Well... as I said I have fonts set to Sans 10 from the XFCE settings, and my guess is that Qt is actually somehow using GTK and those settings? > > I know, in a perfect world and all that, but this isn't a perfect world. Indeed :) >Did I mention I've always REALLY sucked with Qt Designer, and that's > why I do all of my own GUI layouts in raw code? Wasn't my decision to > make this dialog in Designer, but I sure don't want to rewrite it from > scratch and debug all of that to please one user either. Pick your > battles... Don't worry, I know what you mean ;) Lorenzo. -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] How to change MIDI program for midi out device lacking banks
On 01/28/2013 05:53 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > is: why if a MIDI device is lacking a bank mapping, can't one just edit > back and program changes numerically (0-127)? > Is it also simply a bug or is there some reason? It's a very old design decision. If there is no text defined for a given number, Rosegarden hides that number from the user. I tried to work around this years ago with a device definition containing nothing but numbers. Even if that solution is good enough in general, it doesn't do you any good if you can't access the damn device manager to load the thing, does it? I just experimented with the size problem you reported. I remember why this thing sets itself to a fixed size now, and I did that myself. The dialog is useless at less than minimum size, because it has no scrollbars, and I can't come up with a reasonable way to tweak that. Surely that's what I concluded a million years ago too, and that's why it ended up this way. It's been good enough for everyone for quite a long time now, so the most reasonable thing to do is see if we can get you to live with it like everybody else, and simply change nothing. Could you use the Alt key to drag the dialog around without its title bar? Do you have something in place that's overriding the 9 pt. fonts it's set to use? I know, in a perfect world and all that, but this isn't a perfect world. Did I mention I've always REALLY sucked with Qt Designer, and that's why I do all of my own GUI layouts in raw code? Wasn't my decision to make this dialog in Designer, but I sure don't want to rewrite it from scratch and debug all of that to please one user either. Pick your battles... -- D. Michael McIntyre -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
[Rosegarden-user] How to change MIDI program for midi out device lacking banks
I tried to add a new device from the Studio > Manage MIDI devices to be used with fluisynth soundfont, and noticed I was lacking the ability to change program (only channel). So I went back into the studio and found out the bank editing window is unusable as per submitted bug: https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/bugs/1384/ Now, I guess can live without the General Midi programme names, as I pretty know all the instruments since about the 1990s, so my question is: why if a MIDI device is lacking a bank mapping, can't one just edit back and program changes numerically (0-127)? Is it also simply a bug or is there some reason? Thanks, Lorenzo. -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user