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Re: Mackie LCD emulation
2008-03-25 by rpcfender
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> This is getting near ad dear to one of my favorite "needs" as a MIDI musician.
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> I would like a MIDI application (platform independent would be best) that accepts a MIDI a pair of CC numbers for a larger range, and opens documents (HTML, PDF, TXT, DOC, GIF, JPG, ???) that I can define by a path or hyperlink. It should be able to open to a certain page or marker in PDF files, too.
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf
This tells you what to parse in the command line to open a pdf a a certain page.
So are you thinking about a list of command lines?
CC 10 23 = Acrobat.exe /A "page=10=OpenActions" "C:\example.pdf"
I can write this in C++ as I have the Midi libraries ready to go but I don't have anything in Java.
You can use a URL
http://example.org/doc.pdf#page=3&pagemode=thumbs
or
file://C:/Docs/doc.pdf#page=3&pagemode=thumbs
but you will need to sort out the java Midi side of things
Martin (mars) is an expert here perhaps you could ask if he can help with a library.
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> I'm talking about a prompting system and/or score manager for performers of all kinds.
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> Can anyone tell me what software environment would be best to develop something like this, or if it already exists? I know that Alien"Somebody" does this, but it's a $500 piece of software and I think that's overpriced. Something like this should be opensource it seems. If I can figure it out, I would make it open source.
All the best
Royce