Thanks for the hints -- you are right on target with the connection to lilypond. Eventual uses would of course have a more general nature, but you assessed the primary motivation correctly.
Joe Corneli On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, David Boersma wrote: > Hello, > > > I am interested in making a program that will treat keyboard input > > in the usual fashion with one added twist: each key will have a unique > > sound attached to it that will play when at the same time as the > > corresponding letter appears on the screen. Do you have any idea if this > > is possible, and how I might proceed? > > Hmm, let me try to relate this question with Lilypond. My guess is that > you are writing a text editor for entering Lilypond music. Whenever a note > value is entered you want to hear it, so that instead of listening to the > midi proofreading output afterwards you can immediately hear which note > you enter. > > If you are a fan of the command line and mean & lean text oriented > programs, you might look at the curses/ncurses library for the input. That > is an old but still frequently used library which enables you to do > anything with text in a console or an xterm(-like) window, in particular > you can assign actions to separate keystrokes. Or undoubtely you can hack > Emacs syntax file for lilypond such that note values can be assigned to > sound events. If you wish to go for a more graphical solution you'll > probably look at the Qt and/or GTK/glib libraries which also have > libfunctions for dealing with keyboard input. > > The actual sound part is a bit harder. I have no programming experience > with sound but I'm afraid that this is dependent on platform and desktop > environment: e.g. whether the sound output is governed by a sound manager > like Arts or Esound, or that you can do direct OSS or ALSA calls. Maybe > there is a clever midi playing library (or a cmdline program accepting > stdin) which solves & hides all those issues. > > Well, I don't know, maybe I guessed the intention of your question > completely wrong. > > Good luck, > David. > _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
