Cantabile Development Blog

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Progress so far on merging the new UI into Cantabile proper:

Completely disabled the old main screen implementation
Integrated SkinLib into the build process
Merged the skin template from the test harness into Cantabile
Added code to load the new UI main frame and display it
Handling for File Exit command
Handling for File Options command and code to display the options dialog
Code to save and restore the main frame placement
Wired up onscreen keyboard keyboard options (x-y placements and controllers, keyboard layout etc)
Wired up new master levels panel to audio engine
More cleanup of the plugin and rack management
Enhancement to SkinLib to support regular accelerator keys (Ctrl+O for open etc)
Improvements to SkinLib load speed (startup time reduced from about 2 seconds to less than half a second)
Centralised settings management system to simplify saving and loading application settings
Centralised session management system to simplify saving and loading session files
Started on Session load/save management and integration with file commands
New persistence library with improved binary file format for session files

So far so good, but still a long way to go...

Posted on September 19, 2007