Re: Java JI Calc [TD598.11]

Hi Alvin and Daniel,

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:48:05 +0800 [TD598.11],
Lydia Ayers <LAYERS@CS.UST.HK> wrote:
>Subject: Java JI Calc
>
>Hi, Tuners,
>
>Many thanks to Carter Scholz and Robert Rich for coming up with a great
original
>JI Calc. My students have nearly finished their project of porting the Just
>Intonation Calculator to Java, and they have put a Beta version up on the
Web at:
>
>http://wwwfyp.cs.ust.hk:7050/
>
>Please note that this is a temporary web site, which will be moved when they
>graduate. Also note that they haven't succeeded in getting the lattice to
work
>yet, but they do have sound and most of the other features.
>
>Please give it a try and let them know soon if you have any suggestions for
>other things that they can do to improve it:
>
>Alvin Cheung: cs_cccac@stu.ust.hk
>Daniel Suek: cs_ssh@stu.ust.hk
>
>Thanks.

Hey, so far so good! Here's problems I've encountered thus far:

1. The "Ratio Calculation" (on the bottom-right) appears to ignore the
second ratio entered, and just squares the first ratio. For example, 2/3 x
5/7 should yield 10/21, but incorrectly yields 4/9 instead.

2. The "balloon help" for the "Sound Off" button (displayed when the
cursor hovers over the button) says "Enable Sound". This is misleading; it
should probably say "Disable Sound".

3. I'm not a "Mac" person; I have never used JI Calc before. You'll
probably want more than just an "About" command in the "Help" menu. Maybe
at least a link to online help.

By the way, I've written some tuning-related "JavaScript"; for example:

http://nowitzky.hypermart.net/justint/bonefreq.htm

But I have always wanted to learn "Java". I was surprised to find out that
Sun Microsystems has made their Java Development Kit freely available. I
grabbed a Windows version from:

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/download-windows.html

So now I'm studying it, hoping to learn how you got sounds to work...

Keep up the good work!

--Mark Nowitzky
nowitzky@alum.mit.edu, AKA tuning-owner@egroups.com

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