Re: [Denemo-devel] Problem getting MIDI games working

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Oct 15, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> I could not get the MIDI games working:
>
> On doing the More Commands and loading "Major or Minor"
> I got
>
>
> About to load
> from /usr/local/share/denemo/actions/menus/MainMenu/Educational/Aural
> Training/init.scm
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity
> "/home/rshann/.denemo/actions/menus/MainMenu/EditMenu/Transpose/ 
> SetTransposeIntervalFromNote"
> About to load
> from /usr/local/share/denemo/actions/menus/MainMenu/EditMenu/ 
> Transpose/init.scm
>
>
> and the game did not work - just unbound variable error.
>
> I went to the edit menu and execute the SetTransposeIntervalFromNote
> command. Then the game worked.

I will have to test this somehow.

> However, I deleted my .denemo and started again. Once I had set  
> playback
> immediately and Start Jack on startup
> then doing more commands got me a working game.

That was a bug a while back that I fixed. You actually don't want  
immediate playback on.

> (Though in Major and
> Minor the chords after the first have a spurious extra note, you  
> have to
> Replay to hear the chord properly).

The extra note is caused by immediate playback being left on.

> Now I cannot repeat the unbound variable error thing..., deleting
> my .denemo and re-doing the More Commands...
>
>
> One definite bug here is that the I/O warning is not helpful - it is
> trying several places to get things, the local ones fail but that is  
> ok,
> there should be no warning.
>
>
> There are probably other bugs when starting from a clean machine...
> Can we set start jack client at startup and playback immediately as
> defaults?

Yes. Now. I just remebered that immediate playback should be shut off  
or the user will here a middle c before each chord. If a script shuts  
off immediate playback how do I make the change tomporary on scripts  
like MajorMinor?

Jeremiah

> Richard
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Denemo-devel mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel