change order of tracks

[CHristoph Zaunmayr]

ahoi!
is it somehow possible to change the order of the tracks in the gui??
thx

cu
CHristoph

[Olivier Guilyardi]

Hi!

CHristoph Zaunmayr wrote:

> is it somehow possible to change the order of the tracks in the gui??

In the GUI, no, it's currently not possible. Feel free to post a ticket about
this at: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org/newticket

However, if you feel adventurous, you can try to reorganize tracks by manually
editing jab/jab.xml, which you can extract from your .jab file, using tar.

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Olivier

[CHristoph Zaunmayr]

ok. i will file a ticket.
though editing the jab.xml is possible, it is not very confortable ;-)

thx
CHristoph

[Olivier Guilyardi]

CHristoph Zaunmayr wrote:
> ok. i will file a ticket.

Thanks! I will fix this soon. At first it will certainly only be "up" and "down"
menu items in the track context menu (when you right click on a track header).
Drag'n drop would be great but will ask more work, so I think I'll do that later.

> though editing the jab.xml is possible, it is not very confortable ;-)

True ;-) I however like to remind that it can easily be edited, because that may
allow many interested things to be done, such as generating jab.xml using some
sort of script, etc... I like to compare jab.xml to the html source of a web page.

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Olivier

[Olivier Guilyardi]

Hello Ken,

On 05/04/2010 03:25 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
>
> On Jul 10 2009, 11:05 am, Olivier Guilyardi <oliv...@samalyse.com>
> wrote:

>> CHristoph Zaunmayr wrote:
>>> though editing the jab.xml is possible, it is not very confortable ;-)
>> True ;-) I however like to remind that it can easily be edited, because that may
>> allow many interested things to be done, such as generating jab.xml using some
>> sort of script, etc... I like to compare jab.xml to the html source of a web page.
>

> Is there a DTD or schema or something for it? Most of it looks pretty
> obvious, but I don't quite grok what's going on in the <beat> </beat>
> sections.

No there is no DTD. It would be easy to make one, but that wouldn't help for the
<beat/> part. So let me clarify that.

In the <pattern/> section you see tracks vertically, with the first track on the
left. Each <beat/> line contains all tracks at a given beat (or step), with the
first beat at the top, until the last beat at the bottom.

So for example if the first line is:
<beat> 1+1 - 0+1 - 0+1 - 0+1 </beat>

You are dealing with a four tracks pattern, and the first beat of the first
track is enabled.

For each beat of a given track, the syntax is value+mask, where value is either
1 for enabled or 0. And mask is 0 if masking is enabled and 1 otherwise. You can
think of it as a binary value & mask operation.

For more about masking please see:
http://jackbeat.samalyse.org/wiki/BasicUsage#Abouttrackmasking

PS: there seem to be a problem on the Google interface with the reply the link
on this particular thread, so that your answer was sent to me directly. But I'm
adding the group e-mail address, so let's continue there.

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Olivier

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