I'm late to this thread (as usual)... (I'm in the middle of a little
piano trio tour around New England, so writing code is getting pushed
to the side.)
I guess I should have mentioned earlier that I've been continuing
some work in this vein. Since it sounds like this OS X-native stuff
is going to become part of LilyPond proper, I'm interested in
feedback on whether I should abandon my attempt at a shareware app
and try to get some of my work into LP itself.
I have some code that runs LilyPond source from a text field through
LilyPond and displays it using PDFKit (or a custom subclass of
NSImageView if you're on Panther). I was next going to implement the
textedit:// links handling...which I guess Matthias has done.
It's not in a distributable form right now, but I can try to have
something by the end of the week that you all can take a look at.
My approach to this is a little different from the existing stuff, in
that I try to run LilyPond in the background as the user types (after
a 2-second delay), using temporary files. That way, to see your
output you don't have to explicitly say "Engrave"--instead, it just
shows up, as quickly as it can. For final output files, there will be
an explicit command/button/etc.
I also have a little QuickTime music player in the same preview
window for playing MIDI files.
All this done in Objective-C. Note that there's no reason that
convert-ly, etc. couldn't be run from inside Objective-C using
NSTask, and that was certainly a feature I planned to include.
What do you all think? Shall I continue this independently, or are
you interested in getting it integrated into the mainline free, open
source Lily code?
--Ed
On Jun 5, 2005, at 6:51 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
One of the other nice things of python is that we'd be able to
run the
support scripts (both the wrapper for the standalone binary and
convert-ly) inside LilyPond.app.
A little technical question: do you write the Python code inside
XCode, or in another IDE, eg emacs?
(I'm waiting for my power book to be shipped, so soon I'll be
interested in LilyPond.app...)
I write inside emacs. I want to minimize the number of new things
that I have to learn.
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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