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Pepsito · Post by **Pepsito** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:16 pm

Okay the gui sucks... but that's not important.

The sound rocks... all we need are great patches to show the world what xhip can do for them!!!

sinkmusic · Post by **sinkmusic** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:15 pm

The GUI is not that terrible.

I only regret 3 things :
- once, there had a (better to my tastes) black & white GUI with arial font (instead of that ugly "courier" and rainbowesque colors) : it was really okay : keeping the Xhip spirit but nicer ;
- Having been teased with one of the best synth GUI i have seen in a while, made by Gsoto (i am still confident that one day it will be there, but as i like Xhip as a perpetual work in progress, i wouldn't be against a "perpetual work in progress with Gsoto's GUI")

- new versions still don't keep the default bank rememberered when loading xhip.

But as you said : the sound rocks !

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:50 pm

"- new versions still don't keep the default bank rememberered when loading xhip."

yes they do, you either have named the file incorrectly, located it incorrectly or there is a problem with your system.

"- once, there had a (better to my tastes) black & white GUI with arial font (instead of that ugly "courier" and rainbowesque colors) : it was really okay : keeping the Xhip spirit but nicer ;"

(the font is tahoma-7pt now, it was previously a hand-drawn 8x8 bitmap font i made with some fixed-sys for labels)

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/images/ancient_xhip.png

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/releases/v0/b6 ... 6.14.8.dll
http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/releases/v0/b6 ... 6.14.8.png

do you want it like this then?

that is hand-tweaked ariel by the way.. the unmodified font looks pretty bad.

_starcraft_ · Post by **_starcraft_** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:21 am

the font has never been a problem. btw i quite like this new gui/colurschemere. extremely geek but nice.

MaliceX · Post by **MaliceX** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:51 am

*still using an old version*

Looking at those screenshots though, I actually preferred the "ancient xhip" colour scheme. But that's just me.

xolax · Post by **xolax** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:22 am

Acidose, don't take this the wrong way, but will you ever be updating the gui? I remember seeing a really nice design that was supposed to be the final one. Will this ever happen? (not trying to sound mean

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aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:44 am

no i'll never be updating the gui

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/todo/

disturb · Post by **disturb** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:08 am

seriously though, i can't friggin wait for the release that will bring the patch format to a forward compatible state, i keep postponing serious sound design work with xhip because of this.

I know you're pretty busy with your hardware stuff and all right now, but do you have ANY idea how long this will take ad ?

that's a really importantmatter imo, bollocks to all that gui talk

sinkmusic · Post by **sinkmusic** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:55 am

aciddose wrote:"- new versions still don't keep the default bank rememberered when loading xhip."

yes they do, you either have named the file incorrectly, located it incorrectly or there is a problem with your system.

"- once, there had a (better to my tastes) black & white GUI with arial font (instead of that ugly "courier" and rainbowesque colors) : it was really okay : keeping the Xhip spirit but nicer ;"

(the font is tahoma-7pt now, it was previously a hand-drawn 8x8 bitmap font i made with some fixed-sys for labels)

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/images/ancient_xhip.png

http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/releases/v0/b6 ... 6.14.8.dll
http://xhip.cjb.net/xhip/releases/v0/b6 ... 6.14.8.png

do you want it like this then?

that is hand-tweaked ariel by the way.. the unmodified font looks pretty bad.

THnaks for your replies.

- I don't know what's up with the default bank : it is labelled "default", and is in the xhip root folder. It used to load fine since a lot of versions, then didn't load anymore : i told you about it, you fixed it, and again now when i load xhip in my host the default bank is not loaded.

- I like the plain GUI with arial better, yes : thanks !
Btw, i searched on my HD and found 2 screenshots of Xhip older versions that were close to this one but a bit better imo :

This one is Ok, it is the one i was referring to (i liek the logo, but i like the plain colored GUI you posted yesterday a bit better)

And this one is really hot (and oculd be a nice alternative gui while waiting for Gsoto's one... ?)

Mighty Pea · Post by **Mighty Pea** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:33 pm

hey, that one *i nice. It's just cometi, ofcourse, but I really, really like it. Then again, grey and green can't do much wrong, in my opinion.

poonna · Post by **poonna** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:40 pm

Somehow xhip's GUI fondly reminds me of the days of those Famicom (NES for those in the Western side) and consoles like Amiga.

Liquidclear · Post by **Liquidclear** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:42 pm

Vertical sliders would be nice....

MaliceX · Post by **MaliceX** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:56 pm

poonna: Of course that's an easy implementation for the colour scheme if you literally want it oldschool. It's a matter of using 4 colours or less no shades/gradients!

Yeah, it kinda does. It reminds me of DOS more though.

joshhunsaker · Post by **joshhunsaker** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:05 pm

I like those new guis. Delicious.

gsoto · Post by **gsoto** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:42 am

Liquidclear wrote:Vertical sliders would be nice....

http://gsotosite.googlepages.com/xhip02.gif

Actually, that one wins in style by far.

XHip--Please finish your synth!!