[Cuis-dev] Siren for Cuis - initial (partial) port

[Juan Vuletich]

On 11/24/2022 4:09 PM, Stephen Travis Pope via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Hello colleagues,
>
> The core of the Siren music/audio package is running on Cuis, and I'm 
> proceeding to port the I/O classes and looking for some help with the 
> graphics back-end.
>
> The core of Siren (MusicMagnitudes, Events and EventList, 
> EventGenerators and EventModifiers, PitchClasses and Scales, 
> Functions, etc.) are all working, but with no real-time I/O (MIDI and 
> OSC support in-progress).
>
> I made a pre-configured image as well as a build script (no packaging 
> yet); this image also includes my GUI tweaks (esp. left-side scroll 
> bars), 6-paned browser and workbook apps (see screen shot below).
>
> <From the Workbook doc>
>
> The Siren graphical applications are based on the simple display list 
> graphics framework in the categories MusicUI-DisplayLists and 
> MusicUI-DisplayListViews. This package includes display items such as 
> lines, polygons, curves, text items, and images, hierarchical display 
> lists, and display list views, editors, and controllers. The display 
> list view/controller/editor are MVC components for viewing and 
> manipulating display lists. Simple examples of the display list 
> framework are given below.
>
> There are several layouts for the zoom/scroll bars; in the default 
> layout, the bars are grouped on the left and bottom of the window. The 
> zoom bars are gray sliders on the outside, and the scroll bars are the 
> usual color and look, and are set inside of the zoom bars. Take a look 
> at the following and use the zoom/scroll bars.
> [Siren.DisplayList rectangleExample]
>
> </From the Workbook doc>
>
> The basic display items all have VisualWorks-style display methods, 
> such as,
>
> *!DisplayLine methodsFor: 'displaying'!*
> *displayOn: aGraphicsContext*
> *"Display a line between startPoint and endPoint."*
> *
> *
> *"Transcript show: start printString, '', end printString; cr."*
> *color == nil*
> *ifFalse: [aGraphicsContext paint: color].*
> *width == nil*
> *ifFalse: [aGraphicsContext lineWidth: width].*
> *aGraphicsContext displayLineFrom: offset to: (offset + extent)! !*
>
> and these need to be ported to the equivalent versions in 
> the VectorEngineWithPluginWholePixel world.
>
> Q: Is there a Morphic display-list view?  In Siren, most of the GUIs 
> are based on a simple display-list view with 2-D scrolling and zooming 
> (i.e., 4 “scroll” bars) as in these examples,
>
> Hierarchical display list with random rects and texts
>
> hierarchicalDL.gif
>
> Large random display list with different look-and-feel and zoom bar layout
>
> dlist-view2.gif
>
> Music notation view with Motif-like L&F
>
> hsview.gif
>
> The pre-build image looks like this, with build-file on the left, 
> 6-pane browsers in the middle and workbook view on the right.
>
> siren-in-cuis.jpg
>
>
> Note that the other Siren source files are still in VisualWorks format 
> (using namespaces), so they require non-trivial editing to be filed 
> in.  See the build script in Siren_Cuis_Test/FileIns/build-siren.st 
> <http://build-siren.st/>
>
> Does anyone want to try porting the display item display methods and 
> making a display-list view?
>
> There’s a ZIP file with the sources, build-script and pre-configured 
> image in
>
> http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/Siren_Cuis_Test.zip
>
> Questions/comments solicited…
>
> Stephen Pope
>
>
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>
> Stephen Travis Pope    Ojai,California, USA
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>
>

Great news!

Cheers,

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