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general ideas for future development; for details see TODO-details
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Planned small changes:
* Voice recognition: add commands "note C/D.../H on/off"
* add accel translations
* add tooltips and whatis-es to voice recognition dialogs
* add louder/quieter buttons or volume sliders to a toolbar
* add zoom in/out item in MenuOptions (changing SC)
* move timer to canvas, change it to countdown with red background
when negative
* determine start/stop state by some variable, rather than by
a button text
* make KLN2 arts-aware (?)
* add command line option -quiet to turn of stderr/stdout output
* clefs other than treble/bass
* add a choice of turning interface translations off or even a choice
of all available translations
KDE/QT stuff/improvements:
* use QCursor when over active areas? Eg. over a note.
* maybe: use KJanusWidget for multiple exercise layouts
* use KKeyChooser/KKeyDialog (?)
* KListViewItem-s for voice lists(?)
* maybe use KTabCtl instead of 'KDialogBase(Tabbed' in dModelEditor?
- this emits a signal tabSelected(int pagenumber) when the
user selects one of the tabs!
* maybe use KWizard instead of KDialogBase in dVoiceMicroSetup?
* note: KImageEffect can create gradients, blending two images,
fading, rotating and many other;
there is also a KPixmapEffect
* use KStdAccel for Help/Save etc.
* note: running timidity can use KTempFile
Maybe:
How to add a configure --no-voice-recognition option?
How to make conditional makefiles?
Bigger subjects:
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1. individual testnotes selection and individually auto-design test
WHY? if an user makes mistakes about particular notes it may be beneficial
if the program designs for her a special exercise to train these notes
DANGER: user may make mistakes about a note only in particular combinations
(e.g. after a note which is far away in the staff); thus these custom
exercises may not actually address what really is a problem here
COMPLETELY NEW EXERCISE IDEAS but based on similar interface:
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2. add exercise in another direction with all testnotes visible:
user can see all testnotes;
one button gets highlighted and she has to click on all notes with
it's name (if OK a note gets green, if wrong a note gets red + label
comments with no.of remaining notes of this name);
user answers until she marks all the right notes;
NOTE: this is probably simpler than notes' name recognition
and might be suggested as an introductory exercise for each
testnotes set;
simpler, because user can click e.g. every second note (C-G-C-G)
3. add exercise in another direction with no testnotes visible
4. maybe: some kind of a game? make KLN2 more fun!
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******************* IN VERSION 2.0
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NEW INTERFACE EXERCISES :
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1. teach key signatures
* order of sharps/ order of flats
(exercise1: two lines of buttons(no staff):
drag letters to unscramble the order
exercise2: sharps/flats are shown on staff on right pitch, but in
wrong order: sort it out
exercise3; place N sharps/flats on staff)
* name key signature (both Major and minor)
* find notes between which there is one-semitone separation
* find tonic and dominant notes for a key (and variations: this is
tonic - find a key)
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2. teach major/minor chords writing in staff and recognition
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3. design somehow common interface to all kinds of exercises
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4. theory help (what is the order of sharps/flats etc.)
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(see TODO_details)
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******************* IDEAS POSTPONED TO MAYBE-NEVER
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Most of the postponed things are those, which I thought wouldn't be very
useful. Every extra feature makes the interface more complicated and
still requires extra work. So: maybe, some day. But for now - I stop
thinking about these:
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1. decreasing time of pauses between questions and leave only limited
(and decreasing) time for an answer
******************* WHY POSTPONED: speeding - not that important really
WHY? this should improve dynamics of tests and motivate user to work
on speed/automatic answers
WHAT? two kinds of exercises: without time decrease (introductory) and
with one
DANGER: don't over-do; this should not change KLN2 to a mission-impossible
prog.
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- use kdelibs (kmid) or TSE for midi (actually this should be a choice; some
people may not have kde and most don't have TSE!)
******************* WHY POSTPONED: sound works; extra TSE functionality not
needed in this program
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2. add sequence reading exercise:
******************* WHY POSTPONED: the fact that there is a series of questions
does more or less the same
few notes visible in the staff;
user has to click names of the notes in right order;
correct names should be shown under the staff as she types
(in red if you type wrong, in green if right)
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3. idea (2.) the other way around:
******************* WHY POSTPONED: the fact that there is a series of questions
does more or less the same
note's name and a range of the staff gets highlighted;
user is to click on notes location (which would make the note appear);
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