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

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:02 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
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> On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:06 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> >>
> >> I think users may exit the game via closing the window or starting a
> >> new
> >> score. Then they would be confused as to why playback does not work.
> >> Would it be better if immediate playback worked similar to items in
> >> the
> >> view menu (where if you hide a menu but that menu shows on next
> >> startup
> >> unless it was toggled off in preferences)?
> > This would still mean that running a game turned off the immediate
> > playback, which would puzzle users. Instead, we can fix it. Either we
> > prevent game players using anything other than a Quit button to finish
> > or better, we provide a command
> >
> > (d-AttachQuitCallback "scheme")
> > which will cause "scheme" to be executed on closing the current
> > movement.
> > If the game is used to quit then it will detach the callback before it
> > finishes
> >
> > (d-DetachQuitCallback)
> >
> > and executing "scheme" to restore immediateplayback, as described in  
> > my
> > ema
> >
> >
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> I assume we will do this for next release?

yes, hopefully. I'll put it in the 8.10.12 list

For this release, you have improved some things in midi import (?) and
immediate playback via midi - if you can list the improvements in the
0.8.10 list of features - place them higher or lower on the list based
on how important you think things are - I'll do some re-arranging too.
This will get us some release notes.

Richard



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> > This needs to go in some [[Category::Design Notes]] on our website
> > under the todo list http://denemo.org/index.php/Todo-List.
> > BTW is the feature list up to date for your work for the upcoming
> > release on that list? That is where the release notes will come from.
> 
> No. I wok fix that.
> 
> Jeremiah
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> > Richard
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