Re: [Denemo-devel] Jackmidi Status?

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 13:31 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
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> On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>  
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> > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 08:27 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 08:56 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
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> >>> Choosing the color of the graphic display could be done by  
> >>> introducing
> >>> another field for the color value in the DenemoDirective, 0x0 being
> >>> black. You mention drawing a note in white - I don't know if this  
> >>> will
> >>> work (erasing the staff lines?)
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> >> I didn't think of that. Do we have the ability to change the color in
> >> the denemo display?
> > not yet. It wouldn't be difficult - just another field in
> > DenemoDirective and a little code in draw.c to pick up the color.
> >> That would be nice to add color to the games.
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> >>> - perhaps you are thinking of this to
> >>> get a side effect of playing the note (using the immediate playback
> >>> facility)?
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> >> Yes. I was. Like you suggested, I will just use immediate playback
> >> instead.
> > ?? "use immediate playback" meaning explicitly calling d-PlayMidi or
> > whatever it is called to play a midi note - this function presumably
> > needs linking up to your new code (or have you done this already).
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> This has been wired up to d-playMidiKey
d-PlayMidiKey that is, yes that's what I had in mind
>  should it be d-Plaidi instead?  
??? is that a typo?
> At the moment it I haven't wired it up to the staff properties channel/ 
> volume/program number etc...
> So I will do that soon. How does d-PlayMidiKey respond to directives  
> like program change etc... Or is that overkill for immedate playback?
hmm, I guess it would be overkill, and fairly involved.
Richard

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> Jeremiah
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> > Richard
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> >> Jeremiah
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> >>> It will be cleaner not to use modal features in scripts -
> >>> instead use functions that do what they say: so draw a note draws,  
> >>> play
> >>> a note plays. In Denemo these will often be linked together to  
> >>> provide
> >>> things like immediate playback mode, but we should tease them  
> >>> apart for
> >>> the scripting language.
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> >>> Richard
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