Today's Work

I got a bunch of stuff done on Genome's tracker module. You now scroll patterns larger than the screen, and you can box select with the mouse. I'm planning on putting my own spin on the tracker in an attempt to bring it into the 21st century. For one, I'm making it horizontal instead of vertical (mirroring pretty much every other music program out there). Mouse interaction will be much better than in the past (read: Buzz). You will still be able to do everything with the keyboard, but there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to do everything with the mouse too. Gone is the fact that deleting a cell moves all the cells beneath it up. I always felt that this was annoying behavior. Sometimes it does come in handy for moving blocks of notes around, however a lot of the time you just want to delete something without messing up your timing for everything else. Instead, I will leverage box selection and allow users to move around blocks of notes with the keyboard or mouse, or I will add another keyboard short cut (like ctrl-delete) to do the old behavior.

On the touchlib front, on suggestion from some other #ftir'ers I checked out Oscpack and FLOSC. I was able to get both up and running fairly easily so I think I may take a shot at adding OSC support to Touchlib. I will use the TUIO protocol which is already used by the reactivision software. A handful of programs already support this protocol - Audiomulch for one - so it could expand the available applications that can work with touchlib. Also, it will alow for development in Flash (with FLOSC) which is exciting to me as a Flash Developer. This could be a good option for people to start making apps without having to mess with C++.