Hi,

The attached patch allows use of the keyboard to toggle squares in the song editor window (you can still use the mouse too!)

Anyone think this is a useful addition?

After applying the attached patch you can use the keyboard in the following way... first click in a song editor square with the mouse. The up, down, left and right keys can then be used to navigate the grid. The state of a square is toggled by pressing return.

To apply the patch to version 0.9.3...
cd <tmp_empty_dir>
tar xzf hydrogen-0.9.3.tar.gz
gunzip hydrogen-0.9.3.patch.gz
patch -p0 < hydrogen-0.9.3.patch

Sorry, the cvs version of hydrogen does not compile on my gentoo system, so I was not able to make a patch for that. (Fails to detect Qt4 - which IS installed, but gentoo probably installs it into an unusual place.)

Cheers

Hi,

thanks for your patch!

It would be great if you could check if http://hydrogen-music.org/devel/wiki/development%3Aqt4compile resolves your troubles with QT4 (you have to check where gentoo installed your QT and set the QTDIR variable).
Thanks,
mauser

Thanks for the link. One of the other chaps in our band, a qt guru, has just volunteered to try updating the patch for the cvs version. Hopefully we'll have an update to post in the next few days.

I've just updated this patch for 0.9.4 RC 1

For some reason the forum won't let me attach the patch directly, so here's an external link to the file...
http://www.proudman51.freeserve.co.uk/hydrogen-0.9.4-rc1-1.patch.gz

Instructions for use are the same as in the original post... first click in a song editor square with the mouse. Then the up, down, left and right keys can then be used to navigate the grid. The state of a square is toggled by pressing return.

tryin on ...-rc2 end svn(1314), build error, if needed, can post log.
sorry for bad english.

I've updated the code to work with svn version 1318.

The following archive contains the four updated files...
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/proudman/hydrogen-svn-1318.tar.gz

Thank's, i try it.
goood:)

Does anyone else think this is a useful addition?

Can this change be incorporated into the svn repository for inclusion in future releases?

*bouncing* i think, ithink!! :)
Really, very comfortable. Generally, keyboard manipulating is a necesary thing.

Hi!

@Phil: Yeah, that's a cool feature. Please add a ticket at our bugtracker so we remember to implement it :) You can even attach your patch there.

I'm planing to implement a more general configuration editor for keybindings in one of the next hydrogen version, so i don't want to integrate your patch at the moment.