Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rpcfender" <rpcfender@...> wrote:
> I can now see why you have been absent from this forum.

Yeah, well, after I had publicly announced a deadline of "end of
August" and missed it, I entered into a state of mind where I thought
that all my efforts should be directed towards the program.
Consequently I went into some kind of hermitation (is that a word?),
although it may have looked like I "had done a runner".

I must say that I'm very impressed how you have been taking on the job
of helpdesk (and shame on Behringer and all those other companies who
DON'T offer any post-purchase assistance for their products!),
considering your expertise and unending efforts towards all kinds of
extremely technical questions concerning particular MIDI devices.

Still, I did feel guilty sometimes for not engaging in some of the
discussions that concerned me. But looking back over the last year, I
estimate that I've spent some 2000 hours reverse-engineering the BCF
and BCR, writing the MIDI implementation document, and BC Manager. Not
quite healthy... So as you can imagine, during the last few months I
sometimes got so mentally fed up with the whole project that I
sometimes didn't work at it for weeks.

In any case I can promise that from now on I won't disappear for six
months again, although right now I feel like opening a bottle of wine
and getting incredibly drunk to celebrate "finishing" BC Manager, so I
might be writing rather jolly replies to questions about BC Manager
for a few days...

> Is there a place where the script is visible/editable?

I presume you mean the BCL "source code": you can open a "BCL editor"
window (one for each B-Control) from the "View" pull-down menu of the
"B-Controls" window.

A note to clear up a potential incomprehensibility you may run into:
if you perform "Receive global setup" or "Receive temporary preset"
from the "BCL editor" window's "MIDI" pull-down menu, you can only see
the B-Control's response in the (GLOBAL) "MIDI input messages: BCL"
window. You can open this window via the "BC Manager" (main) window's
"View" pull-down menu (via the "MIDI" submenu); you must also press
the "Record" button in that window before any response is actually
recorded/displayed.

By the way, checking this feature for you now I've just discovered the
first slight inconsistency in this version of BC Manager: in the "MIDI
input messages: BCL" window, the "Stop" menu item should be grayed
(disabled) by default. (For how could you stop before you've started?)
Ah well, I should be able to publish version 1.0.1 before the end of
August...

Mark