Re: [MMM] For Manuel, about Scala...

Jon,

I liked your piece too, nice that I could make a small
contribution.
I don't mind discussing it here, if you don't mind if I
get technical.

>My main point for starters is (still, I guess) the problem of long waits
>for the file list to come up (i.e. the actual .scl files in a
subdirectory).

Yes, I have been mailing about that recently on the GtkAda
discussion list. The people making the GNU Visual Debugger which
uses Gtk too say they get around this by filling the file list
in an idle loop, but that's quite complex to program.
There are several people on the list who want a better file
selector for different reasons. Unfortunately it's not planned
for improvement until Gtk 2.2 which is still a long way.
So perhaps we'll make something together. We could take the
KDE file selector as an example.
Meanwhile, you can avoid it in two ways, use DIR and LOAD, for
example type:

dir par*
load partch-b*

You can abbreviate file names with wildcards, it will take the
first one that matches. This is by far the quickest way. It's
useful to get acquainted with the commands, you can see them
coming by in the command window. They will save you time over
navigating menus and the previous commands can be reinvoked
with the up arrow key.
Secondly, use Robert Walker's addition, type:

@open
(select your file, click open)
@o

Similarly for save.

While on the subject, has anyone tried the "Chromatic
Clavier" yet except Robert? I'd like to know what people
think of it. Press F4 to bring it up. It it useful?
Things to improve?

Cheers,
Manuel

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Manuel,

{you wrote...}
>I liked your piece too, nice that I could make a small contribution.

At this point, it was fairly well a _huge_ contribution. Now that I've got everything up and running, I have a pretty good idea where a lot of my free time will get sucked up: trying tunings!

>I don't mind discussing it here, if you don't mind if I get technical.

No, that's pretty much ok; in any event, I would be just asking some generalized questions. That said, you addressed a lot just in this post - I have to run off to work this morning, but will write more later today...

Cheers,
Jon

hi Jon,

> From: Jonathan M. Szanto <JSZANTO@...>
> To: CMM <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:20 PM
> Subject: [MMM] For Manuel, about Scala...
>
>
> Manuel,
>
> I've got a couple of questions about Scala; do you prefer to discuss
things
> in a private correspondence or are you comfortable bouncing topics around
> in public in a forum like this?
>
> My main point for starters is (still, I guess) the problem of long waits
> for the file list to come up (i.e. the actual .scl files in a
subdirectory).

just thought i'd chime in here, because i noticed this long
ago too . . . but it's simply because of the s i z e of
the Scala file archive. there's something like 2,500 separate
files in that directory.

-monz

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No, not only despite the number of files, the
Windows file selector opens much quicker in the same
directory. But for directories with few files it's
not such a problem.

Manuel

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