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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] KMid: draw note events
From:       Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-30 20:36:28
Message-ID: 200909302236.28629.pedro.lopez.cabanillas () gmail ! com
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On Wednesday, September 30, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dimecres, 30 de setembre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> > On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > A Dimarts, 29 de setembre de 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas va escriure:
> > > > On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > > other architecture than not Linux? If it does a better patch has to
> > > > > be researched
> > > >
> > > > As an alternative, I can offer my virtual piano widget. It works in
> > > >  Windows, Mac and Linux and is used in my program VMPK:
> > > >
> > > > http://vmpk.sourceforge.net
> > >
> > > New (and maintained) applications are always a good thing, how does
> > > VMPK compare to kmid? It's the same feature set? It's KDE-based or
> > > Qt-based?
> >
> > KMid and VMPK features don't overlap too much. KMid is a MIDI and Karaoke
> > files player. VMPK can't play MIDI files by itself. It is a virtual
> >  keyboard, an emulator of a MIDI musical instrument implemented in
> > software only, using the mouse and the computer keyboard to generate MIDI
> > events. VMPK is Qt4-based (not KDE-based) application, GPLv3 licensed.
>
> Not being KDE based and GPL3 makes it difficult/impossible to fit in the
> kde repo.

No problem. I'm not looking for a new home for my child ;)

I think that you misunderstood my offering. It was about the piano widget, a 
component based on Qt4 that can be installed as a QtDesigner plugin, and it 
is also published alone, without VMPK, for instance here:
http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Virtual+Piano+Keyboard?content=85050

As the author of the widget, I can also offer a different license (for the 
widget) if that matters.

So, to clarify. There is a problem in the widget included in KMid to show a 
piano keyboard, because using QPainter outside of paintEvent() is not 
supported in Mac and Windows. This would be a problem if some day KMid is 
enhanced to support these platforms. So, I'm offering to replace it with my  
multiplatform virtual piano component.

I'm interested in KMid, and very sorry for the orphan.

Regards,
Pedro
 
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