Pianobooster 0.6.4 - Universal Binary for OSX 10.6

[joe43]

Hi Folks, After much time waiting for things to compile, I have a Universal binary for Mac OSX 10.6.
Give it a try at http://joemartel.com/wiki/moin.cgi/HomePage?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=pianobooster-0.6.4-mac-osx-universal.dmg
This binary is universal (32/64/PPC), but I believe it is restricted to OSX 10.6 or higher.
I am enjoying practising on PianoBooster - Thanks Louis B!
Joe.

[Louis B.]

Thanks for that, what version of QT did you use? Presumably you saw this thread about the Font Corruption ?

http://n2.nabble.com/Mac-version-Font-Corruption-using-QGLWidget-renderText-tp4164074p4164074.html

Hopefully you have solved the Font Corruption problem. If so can I put that version on the Website

I think Chris/Christian-12 now has an old Mac and he may be willing to test your code.

Louis

[Louis B.]

Did you need to make any changes to compile/build on the mac. If so I could check them into svn. Also could you send some screen shots. How is the alignment of the text. Does any of the text need to be moved?

Louis

[joe43]

Hi Louis,

No changes required, just followed instructions in BUILD.txt

qt4-mac-devel @4.6.1_0

I found that it is ok to open a song and play it with 'follow'.

If I try to change the song and then play, the text flickers a lot.

See video on http://joemartel.com/wiki/moin.cgi/PianoBooster for example (might be mac format, can re-encode if needs).

It looks like the screen should be cleared when the song changes, but it is not getting cleared.

Tried to find the code... Got as far as line 177 in Settings.cpp... Haven't yet had time to run in debug... Any suggestions as to where to look appreciated.

Cheers now,

Joe.

On 24 Feb 2010, at 19:21, Louis B. [via Piano Booster] wrote:

Thanks for that, what version of QT did you use? Presumably you saw this thread about the Font Corruption ?

http://n2.nabble.com/Mac-version-Font-Corruption-using-QGLWidget-renderText-tp4164074p4164074.html

Hopefully you have solved the Font Corruption problem. If so can I put that version on the Website

I think Chris/Christian-12 now has an old Mac and he may be willing to test your code.

Louis

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[Louis B.]

I have not looked at this in detail yet, but to clear the screen every frame, go to the settings dialogue in PianoBooster and disable the video optimisation. (On a slow net book running Linux not redrawing the whole screen makes a big difference)

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:53 PM, joe43 [via Piano Booster] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Louis,

No changes required, just followed instructions in BUILD.txt

qt4-mac-devel @4.6.1_0

I found that it is ok to open a song and play it with 'follow'.

If I try to change the song and then play, the text flickers a lot.

See video on http://joemartel.com/wiki/moin.cgi/PianoBooster for example (might be mac format, can re-encode if needs).

It looks like the screen should be cleared when the song changes, but it is not getting cleared.

Tried to find the code... Got as far as line 177 in Settings.cpp... Haven't yet had time to run in debug... Any suggestions as to where to look appreciated.

Cheers now,

Joe.

On 24 Feb 2010, at 19:21, Louis B. [via Piano Booster] wrote:

Thanks for that, what version of QT did you use? Presumably you saw this thread about the Font Corruption ?

http://n2.nabble.com/Mac-version-Font-Corruption-using-QGLWidget-renderText-tp4164074p4164074.html

Hopefully you have solved the Font Corruption problem. If so can I put that version on the Website

I think Chris/Christian-12 now has an old Mac and he may be willing to test your code.

Louis

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[Louis B.]

Did disabling the video optimisation within PianoBooster fix this problem?

Looking carefully at your video disabling the video optimisation should fix that issue. if it does work we can disable this on all Mac builds.

This easiest way would be to to set REDRAW_COUNT 2 (currently it is set to 1) in the code.

Also I can see you are not getting the font corruption problem that Christian had with his build.

As soon as this is sorted I will put your build on the website.

Louis

 

[joe43]

Hi Louis,

Yes disabling the video optimisation fixed the display issue, BUT...

If I Play song, change song, play song....
Then the keyboard input is disabled - I can't play any notes in the second song.

Will try to run this up in debug mode tomorrow.
Any pointers as to where to look for KB input?

Cheers now,
Joe.

[Louis B.]

Any luck with this? This sound VERY strange, I don't have any idea what is causing this.

grep for CMidiDeviceRt::readMidiInput for the MIDI KB input.

are you using svn trunk or 0.6.4 source?

L.

[CRP]

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I tried the binary posted above and it works perfectly on my mac. No font corruption, no tearing, starting/stopping starting song does not cause any commotion ;)

[CRP]

and btw, no need to turn off screen optimization

[Louis B.]

The flickering in the video posted by joe depends on the Open GL device driver so it depends on the machine and the graphics chip.

Joe do you still have issues with the PB mac build? Have you tried Setting REDRAW_COUNT 2 (currently it is set to 1) in the code. I would like to post your mac build asap on the website.

L.

[CRP]

here's my video config:

ATI Radeon HD 4670:

  Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4670

  Type: GPU

  Bus: PCIe

  PCIe Lane Width: x16

  VRAM (Total): 256 MB

  Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

  Device ID: 0x9488

  Revision ID: 0x0000

  ROM Revision: 113-B8030C-253

  EFI Driver Version: 01.00.367

  Displays:

iMac:

  Resolution: 1920 x 1080

  Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

  Main Display: Yes

  Mirror: Off

  Online: Yes

  Built-In: Yes

Display Connector:

  Status: No Display Connected

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 00:51, Louis B. [via Piano Booster] <[hidden email]> wrote:

The flickering in the video posted by joe depends on the Open GL device driver so it depends on the machine and the graphics chip.

Joe do you still have issues with the PB mac build? Have you tried Setting REDRAW_COUNT 2 (currently it is set to 1) in the code. I would like to post your mac build asap on the website.

L.

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[wanthalf]

For me, setting the REDRAW_COUNT to 2 solved the flickering problem.

But there is something strange: I set the REDRAW_COUNT back to 1, rebuilt the application, and now it still runs WITHOUT flickering. (And the video optimisation is still on.)

(BTW, why does the font looks so ugly? :-))

And one more detail: the Mac application build is missing the PB icon...

[Louis B.]

great

Can you post a screen shot of the ugly fonts please.


I think I'll now release a mac 0.6.6.beta from the latest version from svn.

I'll up date rtmidi in svn shortly. Are you willing to help?

The new version uzips on first start up the PB music course BoosterMusicBooks.zip

(see in the svn source:         unzip.start("unzip", QStringList() << "-o" << zipFile.filePath() << "-d" << destMusicDir.path() );

does the mac include an unzip command line program as standard?


Louis

Below is a picture of the font corruption problem

[wanthalf]

It is not so bad with the fonts, no corruption at least. I am just a perfectionist: just the letters do not sit all exactly in one line, but some of them are one or two pixels higher and others lower. Something strange either with the rendering or the font... but many people probably won't even notice.

Yes, I can try to help, as much as I can. But I am new to the Mac platform myself - bought a Mac a few weeks ago and are just discovering the specificity of the platform. I have no idea yet how to build universal application packages, aso. I have only been using Linux until now.

There is an "unzip" command in the system and it is not in the MacPorts path, but in /usr/bin, so I suppose it must have been there with the system from beginning.