Re: [Denemo-devel] New mingw branch

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 10:59 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> Have you tried doing a 
> find target/mingw -name 'portmidi.h'
> This will confirm that it is installed.
That's just it, I did
~/gub$ find . -name "portmidi.h"
with no matches. And yet I started with a rm -rf target and then  make
denemo, all this after creating a new branch from your mingw branch and
doing git pull.

>  You can always --disable-portmidi for now in order to work on nsis.
That's a good idea.
>  I just installed denemo-rc10 (from my gub directory) on a computer
> runnimg windows xp pro. It installed and ran fine. It seemed to not
> respond after I chose to exit without saving. 
Yes, that is the portmidi hanging waiting for you to press Enter at the
console.

> I also noticed a slightly different behavior in note duration editing.
> If I place a quarter note down and then which to change it to a half
> note I usually hit shift-1. This did not work for some reason.
I think the default may be different on windows - I'll test next time I
get a chance - windows comes up with the mouse insertion of notes stuff.
>  It would be nice if I could change the prevailing duration without
> having to mouse or cursor down to the note and then hitting 1. It
> still fails the wine test. Win32 is our most portable solution if its
> working in wine. This is because both mac and linux have wine.
I've never tried wine ... Is it fast enough?

Richard


> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> On Mar 2, 2013 10:03 AM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 14:43 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
>         > I have some (good?) news, one of the xp machines I tested
>         rc10 on was
>         > just now executing it perfectly: I think this machine
>         exhibited the
>         > "lost fonts" bug when I last tested it.
>         > The "lost fonts" bug seems to come and go at random. When I
>         had it a
>         > while back on the vista laptop it affected a very ancient
>         denemo
>         > 0.8.22
>         > or some such that I keep available. That is, it is in the
>         environment,
>         > not the program.
>         >
>         > So rc10 may be working on more windows systems than I
>         thought. But it
>         > does seem to be capable of rendering windows unstable in
>         some way.
>         
>         I think this losing fonts may be due to the installer doing
>         something
>         wrong writing the font keys in the windows registry - that
>         would explain
>         why it affected an already installed program. Why it
>         spontaneously
>         righted itself is down to some periodic housekeeping that
>         windows does,
>         I guess. As these tests are done on machines which have had
>         Denemo
>         installed and crudely deleted multiple times, the real-world
>         experience
>         of folk may be different.
>         If I can just get to build the installer, I could do some
>         tests on the
>         nsis spec - at the moment I am stuck with the denemo configure
>         stage not
>         finding portmidi... it seems to be not in the gub tree, yet is
>         listed as
>         a dependency in denemo.py
>         
>         Richard
>         
>