StepChild OSX.

[james]

No Karben, we're still depending on you.

[Karbon L. Forms]

Cheers Jomes. (And it's KarbOn. Not KarbEn.)

Question for you. Personally I've got a proper mouse on the Macoroni. But I understand that they're still shipping with single-button ones. Apple thinks it's main customer base is too thick to handle anything more or something.

StepChild makes extensive use of right-clicks. E.g. to save the buffer to a pattern. (Which I aint got the hang of myself and keep losing me carefully crafted buffer)

From Mods docs...

LEFT CLICK - Places notes which are in step mode (greyish notes).
[SHIFT]LEFT CLICK - Places notes which will break an adjacent link and start a new note (dark green).
[CTRL]LEFT CLICK - Places notes which will link to adjacent notes on notegrid (light green).
[ALT]LEFT CLICK - Will place NO notes.. but will select that bank, so velocities can be adjusted
without accidentaly entering notes.

Obviously mac buttons have different (unprintable!) names.

How should I set this up for one button?

Any other feature requests?

[james]

Sorry. Karben is a slip. I actuallly had a friend growing up with that last name!

The right button thing is kind of silly. I don't mind the single button feature most of the time but a right button & scroll wheel have become the standards. Currently, my wife and I don't even use mice - I use my powerbook trackpad and she uses a wacom tablet.

I tend to stumble through command substitutes with the single button mouse. Control click seems to replace right click but occassionally command click works instead. Tracktion still doesn't have a keyboard shortcut for zooming all tracks vertically!

In short, sub with control click, command click or buy a cheap scroll wheel optical mouse from compusa for 30.00.

Thanks Karbon!

[Karbon L. Forms]

Thats what I'm trying to say. ctrl (apple) clicks already used, as is alt (alt?) click and shift click.
I'll just shuffle em about and put in a ctrl-alt (apple-alt) click somewhere.

Heads minced doing exportMidi function. Why cant midi files be XML like everything else these days? f**king bitshitting hexadismal.

[ModuLR]

Please do not go by my midi export.. it was a major hack.. and I just didn't know what I was doing at the time. Sure it works, but it is about as nasty as it gets the way I did it... very ass backwards. In that source version I don't think I even made a function to convert variable length bytes.... I do have that bit of code now if you need it.. I was in the process of changing all the midi before I stopped working on it.. so it's incomplete (hence why I never gave the source out for post 1.03 r6.)

I can't say enough regarding the midi spec either.. it seems so convoluted.

[Karbon L. Forms]

Mods. The general policy is to get it working your way then learn more and then streamline it. For example I'm gonna refactor processReplacing a bit. Awfull lot of repitition in there. I can tell it's (exportMidi) a bit hacky but at the moment I don't know enough to rewrite it. If you've got better code bring it on!
Did you get my email regarding the drag drop? Sent it to subminimal address I had from while back.

[ModuLR]

Did you get my email regarding the drag drop? Sent it to subminimal address I had from while back.

check you pm's.. cos my email is buggin' today.. it won't let me send... so I pm'ed you the re the drag n' drop (you have the idea right).

[Karbon L. Forms]

Right! If I get my interface GFX from the foul mouthed one, version 0.1 should be out next week. It may be sans drag n drop though. In fact I'll release the shit-faced version if need be and the purdy one can wait.
I need to fanny about with the face which could take a couple o days but we do have a usable cross-platform StepChild. OK the win32 ones a bit redundant but I'm going to add shit like LEDs along the bottom that follow the beat.
I'm gonna do jStep as well just to prove a point. Java is perfect for prototyping VSTs (IE the speed of developing a proof of concept) and Dans been using my code to get the wrapper fixed. Unfortunatly it's gone a bit arse over tit and the native version(s) overtook the prototype.
And I'll release the code once it's tidy. If anyone wants it!

KLF