Csound Csound-dev Csound-tekno Search About

Re: Lettuce Questions

Date2006-04-26 00:25
From"Art Hunkins"
SubjectRe: Lettuce Questions
I'll be looking forward to trying out these new features on my Windows
systems. Also, I'll take a closer look at how the FLTK widgets interact with
Lettuce. Thanks for a very nice piece of work that looks to be getting ever
more useful.

Art Hunkinhs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rory Walsh" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Lettuce Questions


> Thanks Art. I will look into these issues as soon as I can. As we speak
> I am near finished implementing a feature to allow users to select both
> the colour of the editor gutter and the line numbers. With regards
> command prompt I will add a function to allow users to select their own
> prompt, for instance some users may prefer to use a cwygin shell. As far
> as I know the FLTK widgets do run with Lettuce, the only advantage I can
> see with using my own GUI features is that is creates a standalone .exe,
> and as for the compiler, I will check it out now...... it's getting late
> here however so it may be tomorrow before I you get some answers. Thanks
> for letting me know about these issues, I have only tried the software
> on XP so was not aware of any issues on others OS's. Cheers,
>
> Rory.
>
>
>
>
> Art Hunkins wrote:
> > Hi, Rory,
> >
> > I've been trying out your 32-bit Lettuce with Csound5.02 on both WinXP
and
> > ME. A real nice piece of work that I hope to use as my new regular
editor.
> >
> > I'm experiencing a few glitches I'd like to pass along:
> >
> > 1) The command line prompt button doesn't work on ME (XP is fine). This
is
> > because WinME doesn't have a cmd.exe (I get a "could not start:cmd"
error.)
> > It would surely be nice to have an ME (and earlier) equivalent.
> >
> > 2) With ME (again XP is fine), clicking the Compiler button results in
this
> > error: "Could not copy files. Make sure you have permission to write to
this
> > folder." (I'm wondering if this error could be related to #1 above?) I
see
> > no issue of permissions here.
> >
> > 3) With ME (XP is OK), the lower, message window is white, not black; so
we
> > have white on white = invisible. The only way to see it is to
> > select/highlight text.
> >
> > 4) With both OS's, the black line numbers on the blue (top window)
border
> > are near invisible - particularly, for me, on my ME machine/monitor
which
> > shows slightly darker blue.
> >
> > 5) Finally, with the Compiler option, Win XP displays the standalone
> > performance window nicely, but when Run Csound is clicked (under File)
the
> > run aborts quickly, with an "error starting Csound" message. Viewing the
> > performance window indicates where the "decode failed."
> >
> > I'm attaching the real-time MIDI .csd for your perusal. There is no FLTK
> > (I'm gathering that Lettuce doesn't deal with FLTK, and is instead
designed
> > to implement its own widget set, as I see no FLTK opcodes). I'm at a
loss as
> > to why it doesn't run, as it works well when run normally in Lettuce.
> >
> > Thanks again for a superb utility.
> >
> > Art Hunkins
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rory Walsh" 
> > To: 
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Csnd] Lettuce Questions
> >
> >
> >> There is a version that supports double samples here
> >>
> >> rorywalsh.ear.ie/RoryFolder/setup64.exe
> >>
> >> I haven't really tested it but hopefully it should be ok. Let me know
if
> >> there are any problems. I haven't linked to it from the lettuce
homepage
> >> yet just in case it does not work as expected....
> >>
> >> Rory.
> >>
> >> Marc Demers wrote:
> >>> Hi Rory,
> >>>
> >>> Is it a big job to adapt Lettuce for the 64 bit version of Csound? I
use
> > it
> >>> with the 32 bit (5.02) but since I use Loris quite a bit, I miss this
> > option
> >>> with the 5.02 version.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Marc
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Rory Walsh" 
> >>> To: 
> >>> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:32 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [Csnd] Lettuce Questions
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks for the info, I can't seem to recreate this problem regarding
> >>>> list index but it certainly looks like a bug alright. I'm not sure
what
> >>>> you mean by trying to open an orc/sco file after a .csd file, there
> >>>> should not be any problems there? Keep in mind that the software only
> >>>> runs with .csd files, unless you use it as an editor and then run
> > csound
> >>>> from the command line. At the moment one can only have one file open
at
> >>>> a time. I will look into having several open soon. I have uploaded a
> >>>> newer version now that adds equivalent menu commands for each of the
> >>>> toolbar buttons, you can get it from the same place as before,
> >>>> www.ear.ie/Lettuce.htm. Can you let me know exactly what I must do to
> >>>> recreate that bug? There is no mailing list but feel free to email me
> >>>> directly with any questions or suggestions. Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Rory.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Chris Share wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've downloaded and installed Lettuce. It looks great!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> While the program runs properly I can't get the File->Import orc+sco
> >>>>> command to work. When I try this command after opening the program I
> > get
> >>>>> the following:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> List index out of bounds (1)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is this a bug?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Also, if I load a .csd file, there seems to be no way to load a
> >>>>> .orc/.sco file afterwards.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Another suggestion: some of the toolbar shortcuts don't have an
> >>>>> equivalent menu command (e.g. Run Csound, Compile).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm working on Windows XP.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> BTW, is there a mailing list for Lettuce (even an email address for
> > bug
> >>>>> reports)?. I couldn't find one.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Chris
> >>>> --
> >>>> Send bugs reports to this list.
> >>>> To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk
> >> --
> >> Send bugs reports to this list.
> >> To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk
> --
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk