ChordPlanet Guitar Chord Finder Released

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by cor.

Yippie, my first commercial program made with Purebasic.
Thanks Fred, for your great programming language.

It's a Guitar Chord Finder:

ChordPlanet Guitar Chord Finder has an intuitive interface to help you learn chords. It features an easy-access list of chords (each with all alternate options for playing the chord), and shows you where to put your fingers on a virtual guitar fret board. ChordPlanet will also play you the chord, so you can tell if you're doing it right.".

Features:
+ Easy to use interface
+ Only 25 KB to download
+ Can run from a floppy disk
+ User Based License, allow running on more than 1 computer
+ No files are being overwritten at your system
+ Doesn't write to your Registry
+ Display all available Chords for a ChordType
+ Display Chords in every key
+ More than 10 available Tunings
+ Display all Chords in Alternate Tunings
+ Select Fretposition where to find the selected chord
+ Display Alternate ChordTypes for a given Chord
+ Display notes as circles or fretnumbers
+ Large Database of Chords (more than 70 ChordTypes)
+ Copy ChordDiagram to Clipboard (for use e.g. with Word)
+ Define your own Chord and copy Diagram to another program
+ If you play chords and don't know their names, ChordPlanet
+ can tell you what they are, just click the notes on the fretboard
+ and you know. It even works with Alternate Tunings!!!.
+ Compatible with: W95,W98,ME,NT,XP

You can download a working DEMO version.

http://www.chordplanet.com

Please tell me what you think of it!!

Using Windows 98 SE
Registered PB version : 3.40 (Windows)
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C. de Visser
Author of Super Guitar Chord Finder
http://www.ready4music.com

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kale.

Very nice app, i remember when i used to play a lot of guitar, i would of found this very useful for theory study

--Kale

Getting used to PureBasic and falling in Love!

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> Please tell me what you think of it!!

(1) The preferences should be saved when the app exits. When I use
it, I've got 2 different choices for Midi Device, and it always
defaults to the wrong one. It'd be nice if it remembered my choice,
or is that only for the licensed version?

(2) To make it look more professional, you need to make the numbers
and letters at the left have a transparent background, so that they
look good on all PC setups. Have a look at this URL to see how they
look on my PC (you might have to type in the URL for it to work):

http://tinyurl.com/5zhi

To use transparent bitmaps, please see the bottom of this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=2564

Nice app, though!

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by clx.

very cool app.. good work.

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

Yep, very clean app. Thanks to inform us !

Fred - AlphaSND

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by cor.

Originally posted by PB

> Please tell me what you think of it!!

(1) The preferences should be saved when the app exits. When I use
it, I've got 2 different choices for Midi Device, and it always
defaults to the wrong one. It'd be nice if it remembered my choice,
or is that only for the licensed version?

(2) To make it look more professional, you need to make the numbers
and letters at the left have a transparent background, so that they
look good on all PC setups. Have a look at this URL to see how they
look on my PC (you might have to type in the URL for it to work):

http://tinyurl.com/5zhi

To use transparent bitmaps, please see the bottom of this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=2564">http://forums.pur ... 4music.com

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by plouf.

WinXP uses this color for background
color = GetSysColor_(#COLOR_3DFACE)
i dun't know though what happened with other Win's
btw Nice Prog

Christos

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Kale.

maybe I sould use another grey background , what's the code for the default gey background of a screen?

of coarse this will change to whatever people have set it to, but i think you can retrieve this value using

Code: Select all

GetSysColor_(args)

check your WinAPI docs

--Kale

Getting used to PureBasic and falling in Love!

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> 1. The preferences should be saved.
> It should create an ini file when you change a preference
> Which OS do you use?

I'm using W2K Pro. If I run the app, click Preferences, change the
Midi Device, and close the app, then no preferences are saved.

> 2. Iám not using a bitmap , I write text to createimage

The other replies should be able to help you select the colour.

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by cor.

PB,

One user has the following problem with Win 2000.

Can you please try if you can replicate the problem

problem:
========

I can duplicate the error if I on the Chords Tab and double click on one of the choices in "chords names found" and then click on search. Then I get the plain C or E etc. If I click on that.. I blow up....

Thanks

Cor

Using Windows 98 SE
Registered PB version : 3.40 (Windows)
--------------------------
C. de Visser
Author of Super Guitar Chord Finder
http://www.ready4music.com

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by PB.

> PB, Can you please try if you can replicate the problem

Confirmed. Here's exactly what I did:

(1) Started the app and clicked the 'OK' button to get rid of the MessageRequester.
(2) At 'Chord Names Found' I clicked once on the 'C Maj' entry.
(3) I then clicked the 'Search Chord' tab.
(4) I then clicked the 'C' entry in the 'Search Chord' listbox.
(5) App crashed ('Illegal operation...').

Sorry!

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by freak.

I can confirm that too. (using Win2k)

It crashes, if I press something in 'Chord Names Found' and then Click the first entry in the 'Search Chord' listbox.

But if I click in the 'Search Chord' box without doing anything else, or If I don't click the first entry, it's ok.

Maybe this helps...

Timo

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by cor.

Seems to be a win2k problem.

Not been able to reproduce it with w98,w98???

Using Windows 98 SE
Registered PB version : 3.40 (Windows)
--------------------------
C. de Visser
Author of Super Guitar Chord Finder
http://www.ready4music.com

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by freak.

My ErrorLog for the Program says that the Error was an access violation. Maybe there is something wrong with a Pointer or a Poke/Peek operation?

I know Win2k does more checking, on what a Program can access than Win98, so that might be the reason you can't reproduce the error.

Maybe you could 'Debug' some Values you think might cause the problem (it must be somewhere after a click event in the listbox) and send a Version with Debugger enabled to me for testing.

(If you run the app with debugger enabled, and then Send me the 'PureBasic682359.exe' File from the Compilers directory, i can test it with Debugger, too)

If you think that would help, you can send it to me like this. ( [url]mailto:freak@abwesend.de[/url] )

Timo

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by cor.

Could you try the new version 1.01

fixed:
+ Save midi device and patch numbers to ini file
+ w2k problem should be solved ( wanted confirmation)
+ background of notenumbers en fretnumbers corrected (wanted confirmation)

Thanks for your time to test it

download it at:
http://www.chordplanet.com/download/cho ... emo101.exe

Using Windows 98 SE
Registered PB version : 3.40 (Windows)
--------------------------
C. de Visser
Author of Super Guitar Chord Finder
http://www.ready4music.com