Re: [Denemo-devel] Spacing between staves

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 01:11 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> > > I think you already told me this before, but why is Denemo so unflexible 
> > > with zooming
> > AFAIK Denemo works in pixels, assigning fixed amounts to things like the
> > spacing between lines and so on, and using fixed size bitmaps to draw
> > noteheads etc.
> > I don't know how it might be done differently - I noticed that Finale
> > defaulted to much smaller music size on screen, and it seemed quite
> > readable.
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > >  or changing the view of the staffs at all? There are not many things 
> > > left which are an obstacle to feel 100% comfortable in Denemos GUI for 
> > > me, but this is one (next to Unlimited Undo for all items and selecting 
> > > with shift+cursor left/right and multiple staffs at once)
> 
> Of course it would be a lot easier with CAIRO or other vector-based engines 
> http://cairographics.org/ . But of course that is not possible (at least 
> until somewhere in the future Denemo is devided into Frontend and Backend).
> 
> I think the Denemo-staffs are already big enough, but what about just
that is what I am talking about - the code is written with sizes of
everything hard coded as so many pixels (e.g. LINE_SPACING = 5) and with
images of noteheads etc at a specific size. To scale it down would mean
re-writing it all.
Richard
>  scaling down? This should be possible with pixels, too, and without getting 
> too ugly.
> 
> Nils