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gmorgan v0.25
Copyright (c) 2003-2004 by Josep Andreu
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IMPORTANT NEWS:
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New and extensive documenatation is available in various languages in:
http://gmorgan.sf.net.
gmorgan-doc.tar.gz English version
gmorgan-doc-fr.tar.gz French version
gmorgan-doc-es.tar.gz Spanish version
All files comes with .sxf (Open Office) format and pdf as well.
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Sorry for the english.
gmorgan is a organ, a modern organ, well, now the name for this kind
of machines is rhythm stations ... or some like that.
gmorgan was born because my last project horgand generates the audio sound and
was extremely hard to do an auto-accompaniment generating the audio in real
time.
gmorgan is my first attempt to use the scheduled events in ALSA sequencer,
and is based on a miniArp.c from Matthias Nagorni.
gmorgan use MIDI, i hope is fully configurable, or maybe will be in future
versions, the most easy way to use it is with a soundfont device, a sound
card or a soundfont synthesizer.
This program was developped in a debian PIII 933 with emu10k1, also is
tested in a debian PII 300 with a old SB16 isa card with timidity both with
kernel 2.4.20 and runs "fine".
The gmorgan webpage where you can find the lastest version is located in:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/guy.clotilde/GMORGAN/index.html
Thanks to Guy Daniel Clotilde, the webmaster, for this big effort, also you
can subscribe to our mailing list "hlsu@yahoogoups.com" for support,
announces ans comments, sending a blank message to:
hlsu-subscribe@yahoogoups.com
Please, if you enjoy this program, send me your patterns, i will add in the
future versions, i have a large list of imporvements to do, and i dont have
time to make patterns. Please send to holborn@telefonica.net.
Remember, that program is in development, sure has tones of bugs.
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= REQUERIMENTS =
- Linux.
- ALSA.
- FLTK Fast Ligth Toolkit.
- Soundfont device, a sound card or a synthesizer like timidity.
- Optional Midi Keyboard.
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== First the bad News ==
Many many bad news. Unfortunatelly, all of GM soundfonts, sounds diferent,
also the same soundfont in a soundcard or in a synthesizer, sounds diferent,
also the same soundfont in a diferent soundfont synthesizer sounds diferent
and that's a problem, because the patterns sound really diferent with diferent
soundfonts or devices, and maybe you need adjust all the volumes, and is not a
easy work. The drum "velocity" mixer helps something with that problem.
Unfortunatelly, the soundfont synths arent too fast when receiving a program
change MIDI message, that cause error in the sound what you hear when start the
accompaniment.
I really dont know who has the problem but sometimes
the exported midifiles dont run good in Muse ... i checked with pmidi and
rosegarden4 and +/- works, but still problems with muse.
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= How to start? =
gmorgan is released with preset files in General Midi, for start with this
program in a easy way you need a GM soundfont file.
If you have a sound card with wave table support, you need load one soundfontfile.
In a emu10k1 or awe compatible soundcard we use for this purpose the command:
sfxload "soundfontfile"
available in the awesfx package from Takahasi Iwai in:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/iwai/awedrv.html
If you dont have a sound card with wavetable device you need a virtual
soundfont synthesizer like Timidity.
Start this programs like a sequencer alsa client in this way :
timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0
you need also write a /etc/timidity.cfg file with this format
soundfont "soundfontfile"
Also you can use fluidsynth another softsynth, start this program in this
way:
fluidsynth -m alsa_seq "soundfontfile"
The "soundfontfile" contains the sampled sound, is the sound what you hear,
personally i use the GM soundfont file "8RealGS20.SF2" available in :
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/awe32/soundfonts/8RealGS20.zip
Is not the best but is smaller 8MB and sounds pretty good. If you use another one,
sure can sound better, but you will need to remix many patterns.
In order to use Reverb and Chorus effects with a emu10k1 device you need to
install the ld10k1 package from Peter Zubaj available in:
http://ld10k1.sf.net
I think the best way is start gmorgan, save the settings and restart
gmorgan, then he try to connect to your devices and is ready for play.
NOTE about auto-connection
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gmorgan stores in the config file the ALSA sequencer Info of each port you
select in your configuration, and use this info for auto-connection ports
when hi starts. (That's because Client and Port Info can change).
Then if you have two devices with the same Info, gmorgan uses the second one.
Also there's a problem with FluidSynth, because they put in their info the
port number, and this number can change in other sessions.
Anyway you can connect MIDI clients with some programs like aconnect.
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The example files are located in /usr/local/share/gmorgan in the default
installation, in the settings window go with the browser button to this path
and select the apropiate for each category.
The Preset file is named "GMPresetList.txt".
The Drum Note Name File is named "GMDN.txt".
The Help file is located in /usr/local/share/help/help.html in the default
installation.
The Skin file is named "skin.txt" and is located in the default installation
in /usr/local/share/gmorgan/skins/ , then you can select a skin name. Due
the tree architecture of skin, select always this file, if you wanna edit
your own skin, always edit this file.
Also you can the use command line to load the sounds, the patterns and the styles
etc.
gmorgan v0.01 - Copyright (c) 2003 Josep Andreu (Holborn)
Usage: gmorgan [OPTION]
-h , --help display command-line help and exit
-d File --drump=File get the drum map file list
-p File, --preset=File get the preset file list
-l File, --load=File loads the Styles
-b File, --load=File loads the Sound Bank
-r File, --load=File loads the Patterns
Some examples are located in /usr/share/gmorgan, load and enjoy.
An example of command line to start gmorgan overriding the config files:
./gmorgan -l MisStyles.gms -b MisProgs.gmo -r MisPat.gmp
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= The Settings Window =
== Global Settings ==
Two browsers of ALSA sequencer Midi Ports in this window, one for MIDI In an the other for
MIDI Out, select one device in each one, when you restart gmorgan hi try to
connect to the specified devices in your configuration.
Browse your paths and select the files what gmorgan loads when hi starts,
remember, the files are located in /usr/local/share/gmorgan in the default
installation.
Skin file are located in usr/local/share/gmorgan/skins un the default
installation.
When you restart gmorgan, hi try to load this files, and then hi is ready to
play. Anyway the command line -l -b -r override this files. Use it if you
wanna load a different Sound,Pattern,Style or preset file.
Mute pattern dependant, check this box if you want the patterns controle the
mute (On/Off) of each accompaniment channel.
== The Preset Files ==
gmorgan uses two files with the preset names, one for the bank-sounds names,
and another for the drum-notes-names, gmorgan install this two files in
/usr/share/gmorgan and are called GMPresetList.txt and GMDN.txt, you can add
your soundfont preset names editing this files. gmorgan loads both when
start, or edit your own ones and load with a command line parameter.
The format of Preset list is exactly what have a small utility that comes
with a wonderfull program of Takashi Iwai called vkeyb, the utility is
called sftovkb.
The format is :
Bank Program Name
0 0 Piano
The format fo Drum note file list is from my own and at this moment can be
edited by hand. The format is:
Program Note Name
0 44 Pedal Hi-Hat
== The Preset File Editor ==
Modify the selected Bank-Preset Name or adds new ones.
== The Note Drum Name Editor ==
Modify the selected Program-Note Name or adds new ones.
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= What is what? =
== Sounds ==
Sounds are the four first channels in the mixer, your left and rigth hand,
gmorgan can load 100 sounds with the settings of the mixer. Also can be
changed with MIDI program change, if you wanna change when you play, or with
Alt-B shorcut open the Bank window and you can select or store in it, then you
can save the whole bank or sound by sound.
== Patterns ==
Are the most important thing, gmorgan can load 500 patterns, each pattern
contains the rest of the mixer, Acc1, Acc2 ,Acc3,Acc4,Acc5, Bass & Drums and of course
the musical pattern. You can select with left click in the browser or edit
with rigth click. Also you can save the whole, or one by one.
Patterns parameters i will explain in the Pattern Editor.
All changes made in the mixer pattern section are stored in the pattern, and
be carefully because if you save the file, this changes will be saved.
Remember in General Midi, drums are asigned to Bank 128, you need to change
the Bank MSB parameter to 128 in the Extra Params win (+) if you use General
Midi SoundFonts. Empty Patterns are "harcoded" to use the 128 Bank for the
drums section, but you need to change it if you dont use General Midi.
== Styles ==
Styles only store the "number" of each pattern for Var1 Var2 Fill1 Fill2
Intro and Ending, the tempo selected , and the sound program selected.
Also you can save the whole, or one by one.
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= Main Window =
Only few thing need to be explained.
Two lines of buttons named Pattern and Next Pattern can "only" be used when
you select a style, the line Pattern changes in real time the played
pattern, the Next Pattern line changes the pattern when they finish, button
Var1 F2 and Var2 F1 changes the pattern playing the "F" (Fill) pattern
before start the next pattern, REMEMBER to edit your Fill1 and Fill2 patterns with
minus bars than the Var1 or Var2 Pattern.
== Shortcuts ==
Press F1 for Help.
**Pattern**:
- 1 -> Var1
- 2 -> Var2
- i -> Intro
- e -> Ending
**Next**:
- z -> Var1
- x -> Var1F2
- c -> Var2
- v -> Var2F1
- b -> Ending
The Next line also can be controlled with a MIDI Pitch Bend, try ... is not
easy.
The HMode controls how the rigth keyboard is harmonized, they are six types, mode
unison dont harmonize, the rest are third, sixths, triad 1, triad 2, soli 1,
soli 2. Carefully with the polyphony of your devices because, de soli mode
uses 4 notes for each note , and -> 4 notes * 2 channels = 8 notes for
each note played. If you play four .... = 32 notes, most devices dont
support that polyphony.
The button "+" for each channel in the mixer open a window with extra
parameters for this channel.
== The Play-Record buttons ==
This buttons Record/Play what you play in the organ, also in the menu you can Save/Load
or Export as Midifile.
gmorgan record also all Pattern/Sound changes or whatever you change in the
mixer during recording.
In this Play Mode the organ and the sequencer operation is disabled, but you can "play"
with the mixer to correct volumes, this changes in play mode can not be recorded, is only for
monitoring.
You can record 64.000 events, a large song :)
The Export Midifile of this events is a "little" bit slow ... be patience, i
will improve in future versions, also .. i'm not very happy with the
resolution, and maybe that's a buggy part of the program.
== Hints for Recording ==
Is extremely hard to click on record and start play, but you can use a
special trick, edit your favorite style and put as intro a count or a empty
pattern, then select this style click Intro in the current Pattern line and Var1 in the
Next Pattern line ... then click "Record", gmorgan starts with the Intro pattern and then
will change to the Var1 pattern.
Also, when you Record, gmorgan writes in "bar 0" the actual "Sound", if you wanna record
with new "sound" contents you need to write a new "sound".
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= Edit Pattern Window =
That is the most important part, and needs to be really improved in future
versions. Edit a pattern is not a easy work. You can edit the pattern and
listen at the same time.
All the patterns can be edited in Major tone, because all the changes what
gmorgan made when you play is referenced to the major chord.
The Help Button display the correct values for notes and lengths.
Remember that... the number of vars of the fill patterns needs to be minor than
the Var patterns.
== The Pattern ==
The first parameters are the name, the number of bars, (1 to 8) and the
Nominator, nominator meants the "nominator bar" 3/4 4/4 -> 3 for Waltz, 4 for
Disco .. etc.
The swing parameter of course is the amount of what each second eigth note for
each black note in the whole pattern delays. That's swing. :-)
The button copy, copies the whole contents of a pattern in the selected pattern.
The button clear, reset the pattern to a "Empty" state.
== The Bars ==
This counter, selects the bar of the pattern to be edited.
The Copy button in this section, copies the selected bar for all the
sections in the pattern.
= The Drums =
The Copy Button in this section, copies a bar, for the whole drum notes.
In the subsection, The slider select the drum note you want to edit, also you can hear with the
button listen, If you load non GM standart soundfonts, you need to edit a
file with drum note names, that is explained later.
The Copy button, copies only the selected instrument. The
button Clear, clear the bar for the selected instrument.
The groups of four inputs values are de 16th notes for the bar, in the case
of the drums, you select the note in the slider, the length is fixed, and
only you need to put the velocity. (0-127).
= The Bass =
The St-Lt slider means "Stacatto/Legatto", this affects the length of the
note.
The Copy Button in this section, copies a bass bar.
The Clear Button clears bass notes in the selected bar.
Here you need to specify the note, the length and the velocity.
The note is referenced to the fundamental of the chord. In the major
tonality.
|| Value | Note |
| -12 | 2 grade flat |
| -11 | 2 grade |
| -10 | 3 grade flat |
| -9 | 3 grade |
| -8 | 4 grade |
| -7 | 5 grade flat |
| -6 | 5 grade |
| -5 | 6 grade flat |
| -4 | 6 grade |
| -3 | 7 grade flat |
| -2 | 7 grade |
| 0 | No sound |
| 1 | Fundamental |
| 2 | 2 grade flat |
| 3 | 2 grade |
| 4 | 3 grade flat |
| 5 | 3 grade |
| 6 | 4 grade |
| 7 | 5 grade flat |
| 8 | 5 grade |
| 9 | 6 grade flat |
| 10 | 6 grade |
| 11 | 7 grade flat |
| 12 | 7 grade |
| 13 | 8 grade |
The Length is the same valor as ALSA sequencer
|| Value | Length |
| 1 | whole bar |
| 2 | white note |
| 4 | black note |
| 8 | eigth note |
| 16 | sixth note |
also you can use the intermediate values for do a "dot" note ..
The Velocity is like in the drums .. (1-127) remember, velocity means
"Velocity Sensitivity", some thing like a volume of the note.
= The Acc1 =
Is a "soli" accompaniment whit the note what you play with you left hand, if
you dont play ... no sound is produced in this kind of accompaniment.
The parameters are Length and Velocity exactly like in the bass section.
The St-Lt slider means "Stacatto/Legatto", this affects the length of the
note.
The Clear Button clears Acc1 notes in the selected bar.
The Copy button copies bars like in the other sections.
= The Acc2 4 =
Edits Acc2 or Acc4.
Is a melodic accompaniment,the parameters are the same than the
Bass section.
The St-Lt slider means "Stacatto/Legatto", this affects the length of the
note.
The Octavate button plays also one octave bellos the same note.
The Thirds button plays in "thirds" whit the notes chords, maybe
sometimes are foths..
The Sixths button plays in "shiths" ehit the notes chords, and maybe
sometimes are fiths..
The Clear Button clears Acc2 notes in the selected bar.
The Copy button copies bars like in the other sections.
The Mode parameter can be at this momment (0 to 2).
= The Modes =
gmorgan now uses three different types modes to play the melodic
accompaniments. Each one produce different results. My personal
recomendation is use mode 2 if you want to play the pattern with the organ.
If you want to use the Batch Player, you can copy the pattern to an empty
pattern and change the mode, in this way you have, the same pattern copied
with differents melodic accompaniments and you can select the most
appropiate for each bar in the sequence.
== Mode 0 ==
This mode transports the melody to the fundamental of the chord what you play of
course changing the chord notes for harmonize a little bit. Exactly like the
bass. Be carefully with your melodies because the use of some grades cant be
harmonized by gmorgan.
== Mode 1 ==
This mode try to harmonize the melody in a most sure way than mode 0, but the
changes what gmorgan makes in the melody are sustantial big than the mode 0.
This mode is a little bit hacked, takes the first chord played as the
tonality and relativize all the melodys to this tonality, use it if your
song starts with the tonality chord, otherwise you can obtain unexpected
results.
== Mode 2 ==
This is the safe mode, moves the notes of the melody to the nearest chord
note. Use this if you plan to put notes higher than twelve.
= The Acc3 5 =
Edits Acc3 or Acc5.
Is a melodic accompaniment harmonized with the chord notes, also has mode,
but that is a sure way to harmonize. The parameters are the same like
always.
The St-Lt slider means "Stacatto/Legatto", this affects the length of the
note.
The Clear Button clears Acc3 notes in the selected bar.
The Copy button copies bars like in the other sections.
= The Acc4 =
Exctaly than Acc2.
= The Acc5 =
Excatly than Acc3.
= The Control Editor =
This window edits control midi messages in the patterns, more of the
controls only works on a awe or emu10k1 devices, each controller needs
differents values, but gmorgan relativice all the controls to (1-999)
values.
Use this window with extremely carefully because they change parameters in
the sound and you can obtain unexpected results if you dont know what are you doing.
And maybe you need to restart gmorgan, or reselect the program for return to the original sound.
Value 0 dont send nothing.
See Pattern 50 for a example, compare with Pattern 29 ( the original without
controls), Acc2 Pan changes, and LFO to Pitch, this only runs on a emu10k1
or awe device. Also Acc1 Resonance changes during the pattern.
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= The Sounds Bank =
This window is for select the sound in the left and rigth hands.
Like always, left click to select and rigth click to store the changes.
Remember to save your files.
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= The Velocity Window =
Opened with the small "v" button in Drums mixer channel.
That is an attempt for facilitate mix the drums when you use differents
soundfonts, remember that only reduces-increses the velocity sensitivity of
each note. You can save your settings for each diferent soundfont.
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= The Sequencer Song =
That can be changed a lot in the future, because i think people is most
interested in that then int the part of a organ.
The nominator is only for the number of chord entrys in each meassure each
entry correspond to a black note in the pattern, if the pattern has less black notes
than this nominator value, the lastest black notes are deprecated.
The Inv. buttons are the fist inversion played for the ACC1 ... value 1 for the first
inversion of the chord and 2 for de third inversion, thats only in the start
moment, because gmorgan "try" to change the inversions in real time to do a
natural accompaniment.
== The Scroll ==
128 bars for each song, each blue box is a black note in this bar, if their
are blank.. last chord is played. The available chords are in a box down of
the window ... obviously are relativized to C.
Please load the "Mendigation" song for see an example ...
this chords are from Antonio Carlos Jobim ... hope can be distributed in this
way .. i really dont know...
The available chords are displayed in the window, in fact they are more than
that, but i need to think about how to use chords with 5 notes.
The diminished (ejem ... ) chord C7 is with the "grade" simbol
-> Shift + Alt-Gr + 0 in my keyboard.
The eigth buttons A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H are markers. only one bar in a song can be
selected with the same marker.
The Go input value ..... can be filled with A B C D ... gmorgan check that
before play the bar, the next blank input value are the times the sequencer
goes to the marker, after this times the sequencer plays the bar.
The second Go input value .... can be filled also with A B C D ... and means
... "go after x times" ... the next blank input value is the times.
That is for emulate the ... -1----- -2----- in a score pentagram.
The Pattern, is the number of pattern is played in this bar, if number is 0
the last pattern is played.
The X Button is the finish point of the song, gmorgan stops when finds a X
button enabled, also stop here when exports a Midi File. Otherwise the song
continues to the eternity, but not when gmorgan export a MidiFile, if X
point is not present gmorgan stops in sequence bar 128.
The 8 and 16 buttons meants "ritmic" anticipation, gmorgan plays the chord
in the next bar in the las 8 or 16 position of the bar. Of course that has
effect if the pattern has ritmic anticipation in their music contents.
Please see the song FourAntiR.gmsong for an example.
The slider selects the bar position for start the song, carefully with this
because if the selected bar does not contain a pattern number, gmorgan
search for the last pattern number, but that can produce unexpected results
because starts with the first bar of the pattern in the selected bar, anyway
when gmorgan finds the next pattern change all turn to the correct way.
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= Global Drum Edit =
This window is a mix of scrolls, and sometimes are not perfectly graphic
buffered, maybe will be better in future versions.
Click on the instrument note to select and hear the instrument.
Click on a grid and drag to change the value or use the keyboard to enter
the desired value.
Instrument Copy: Copy bars form the selected instrument only.
Bars Copy : Copy bars from-to.
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= Utils =
== The Keyb Window ==
This is the "funny" chord virtual keyboard. Is divided in two sections, a musical
keyboard and a box keyboard. That's the "clickered chord" :-)
In the musical keyboard part, click on the note desidered.
- Left Click -----------> Maj7
- Right Click ----------> 7
- Shift + Left Click ---> 7
- Shift + Right .Click -> 7(Sus4)
- Ctrl + Left Click ----> m7
- Ctrl + Right Click ---> m7(b5)
- Shift+Alt+Left Click -> +7
- Shift+Alt+Right Click > 6
In the box keyboard use left and rigth click for obtain the different notes.
- Left Click -----------> Maj7
- Rigth Click ----------> bMaj7
- Shift + Left Click --> 7
- Shift + Right Click -> b7
- Ctrl + Left Click ----> m7
- Ctrl + Right Click ---> bm7
== The Selector ==
Select what kind of values you wanna change (Sounds, Patterns or Styles)
then enter in the computer keyboard the selected value and pres Return,
gmorgan change the Sound. Pattern or Style to the desired value.
Also numbers are assigned to some keys in this way:
|| Key | Number |
| A | 1 |
| Z | 2 |
| E | 3 |
| R | 4 |
| T | 5 |
| Y | 6 |
| U | 7 |
| I | 8 |
| O | 9 |
| P | 0 |
Backspace and Supr keys clear entry even the entry displays the actual
sound, pattern or style. Also the Arrows are dsiponible:
- "J" or Left Arrow Value -1
- "L" or Rigth Arrow Value +1
- "K" or Up Arrow Tempo +1
- "M" or Down Arrow Tempo -1
== The Master ==
*Volume*:
This is a MIDI volume, when is activated adds a percentage volume
to the "saved" volume of each channel, in fact multiply (0-1.25) the volume
of each channel.
*Master Tune*
This change the global tune on gmorgan only in emu10k1 devices.
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= The skins =
My fist attempt to skin something. Skins rigth know only works for the main
window, the others will be added in future versions.
You need to know the name of the fltk widgets of gmorgan and some patience
for do new skins, run fluid (the Fast Ligth GUI Tollkit) and load GMORGAN.fl
located at the /src in the sources package, and you can obtain this names.
If you have problems email me, also we hope to add some help in the new webpage
about this.
The skin file contents is located in the default installation directory and
contains the skin changes in this format:
- {SkinName1}
- changes ...
- changes ...
- changes ...
- {SkinName2}
- changes ...
- changes ...
- changes ...
- .
- .
- .
Dont use blank spaces in the SkinName.
Two special commands are available:
Resize X Y
NoResizable
"Resize" command resizes the main window to X,Y width and height.
This resize command resizes all the widgets too.
"NoResizable" disables to the user the ability to resize main window.
The rest of commands are aplicable to the widgets propiertys.
The changes are the functions implemented in this format:
WidgetName Function Value Value
Example:
TECLADODE 1 345
That changes the color for the TECLADODE widget to the value 345 (Fltk RGB
function).
Here the list of functions and values implemented:
|| Function | Description | Value1 | Value2 |
| 0 | Hide | -- | -- |
| 1 | Color | Number | -- |
| 2 | Box type | Boxtype (see bellow) | -- |
| 3 | Label Color | Number | -- |
| 4 | Label Font | Number | -- |
| 5 | Label Size | Number | -- |
| 6 | Label Type | Labeltype (see bellow) | -- |
| 7 | Position | Pos x | Pos y |
| 8 | Size | Heigth | Width |
| 9 | Selection Color | Number | -- |
| 10 | ImageLabel | Path to a file | -- |
| 11 | Align | Aligntype (see bellow) | -- |
| 12 | Text Size | Number | -- |
| 13 | Menu Label Size | Number | -- |
| 14 | Counter Text Size | Number | -- |
| 15 | Window Size | X | Y |
| 16 | Color | Number | Number |
== BoxTypes ==
Put this text as Boxtype, hope you understand what is what, anyway you
can check each one.
FL_NO_BOX, FL_FLAT_BOX, FL_UP_BOX, FL_DOWN_BOX, FL_UP_FRAME, FL_DOWN_FRAME,
FL_THIN_UP_BOX, FL_THIN_DOWN_BOX, FL_THIN_UP_FRAME, FL_THIN_DOWN_FRAME,
FL_ENGRAVED_BOX, FL_EMBOSSED_BOX, FL_ENGRAVED_FRAME, FL_EMBOSSED_FRAME,
FL_BORDER_BOX, _FL_SHADOW_BOX, FL_BORDER_FRAME, _FL_SHADOW_FRAME,
_FL_ROUNDED_BOX, _FL_RSHADOW_BOX, _FL_ROUNDED_FRAME, _FL_RFLAT_BOX,
_FL_ROUND_UP_BOX, _FL_ROUND_DOWN_BOX, _FL_DIAMOND_UP_BOX, _FL_DIAMOND_DOWN_BOX,
_FL_OVAL_BOX, _FL_OSHADOW_BOX, _FL_OVAL_FRAME, _FL_OFLAT_BOX,
_FL_PLASTIC_UP_BOX, _FL_PLASTIC_DOWN_BOX, _FL_PLASTIC_UP_FRAME, _FL_PLASTIC_DOWN_FRAME,
FL_FREE_BOXTYPE
== Labeltypes ==
Put this text as Labeltype, hope you understand what is what, anyway you
can check each one.
FL_NORMAL_LABEL, FL_NO_LABEL, _FL_SHADOW_LABEL, _FL_ENGRAVED_LABEL, _FL_EMBOSSED_LABEL,
_FL_MULTI_LABEL, _FL_ICON_LABEL, _FL_IMAGE_LABEL, FL_FREE_LABELTYPE
== AlignTypes ==
Put this text as Aligntype, hope you understand what is what, anyway you
can check each one.
FL_ALIGN_CENTER, FL_ALIGN_TOP, FL_ALIGN_BOTTOM, FL_ALIGN_LEFT, FL_ALIGN_RIGHT,
FL_ALIGN_INSIDE, FL_ALIGN_TEXT_OVER_IMAGE, FL_ALIGN_IMAGE_OVER_TEXT,
FL_ALIGN_CLIP, FL_ALIGN_WRAP, FL_ALIGN_TOP_LEFT,FL_ALIGN_TOP_RIGHT,
FL_ALIGN_BOTTOM_LEFT, FL_ALIGN_BOTTOM_RIGHT, FL_ALIGN_LEFT_TOP,
FL_ALIGN_RIGHT_TOP, FL_ALIGN_LEFT_BOTTOM, FL_ALIGN_RIGHT_BOTTOM,
FL_ALIGN_NOWRAP
== Some Hints about the images ==
gmorgan can load at this moment .png .jpg files.
Remember in fluid images are image-labels, if you plan to put images,
first you need to put the labeltype of the widget as a FL_NORMAL_LABEL, and
align the image inside the widget puting the widget align to FL_ALIGN_CLIP
and then the image function.
Another important thing is the main window is resizable, and the images are not
tiled, is your responsability to put a image with reasonable size in each widget.
See the skin examples.
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That's all folks, please ... remember to send me patterns or skins , i'm involved in
improve this "small" program and help are welcome.
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