[squeak-dev] Writing a MIDI file?

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Tue May 4 17:18:45 UTC 2010


2010/5/4 Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
> On 5/4/10, Squeak List <squeaklist at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> actually,
>>
>> the class comment for MIDIFileWriter actually works - not very extensive,
>> but is nearly infinitely more useful/interesting than NO comment :) an
>> example of helpful documentation,
> +1
>
> and cheers indeed for code created around
>> 10 ago...AND still working in 4.1 update:10112 !!!
>>
>> thank you Lushi (AKA Yisrael Lowenstein).
>>
>> my original MIDI interest was to be able to convert "scores" with the
>> same/similar format found in the AbstractSound bachFugue examples: to create
>> a MIDI file from scratch - not exactly like the MIDIFileWriter example...
>>
>> Stéphane pointed out a way to do that in his Mu0 environment... and i am
>> working on my own version fine-tuned to what i want to do in the way that
>> makes most sense to me in the environment which i am creating :)
>>
>> i also agree that it (Class MIDIFileWriter) should be in the base image, if
>> possible.
> +1
> or than easily accessible as something like SoundAddons on
> Squeaksource together with a reference in the 'Extending the System'
> workspace.
>
>> ken
>>
>>
>> PS: this brief sort of documentation is very helpful to me.
>>
>> a great example imo is the class comment for: KeyboardMorphForInput.
>>
>> KeyboardMorphForInput commentStamp:'nice 3/24/2010 07:37' prior:0...
>>
>> i do not know who goes by the initials of  'nice' - but whoever it is did a
>> rather decent job. actually extremely well done imo...
>> and hopefully "someone" could tell me how to search the image for
>> commentStamps created by 'nice'... that would be....
>>
> Nice = Nicolas Cellier
>
> --Hannes
>
>

But I didn't write the comment, just replaced _ with :=

Nicolas



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