Program idea: Drag and Drop converter
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Program idea: Drag and Drop converter
Problem is that drag and drop is something which is not recognised by ardour/mixbus. I started to think, would it be possible to create simple program which could receive such DnD, and offer same stuff as linux midi drag and drop? DnD midi file from thunar/some other file manager works ok.
Is there anything like that available already, or suggestions for some example code? First step would be creating program that can receive those DnD's in, and then checking what it needs to be converted to suitable format.
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they/them ta / libreav.org / wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Audio and related pages / gh
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Re: Program idea: Drag and Drop converter
Sorry my stupidity, but now I can't understand how this relates to my problem?milk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 3:23 pm In the LV2 host library realm, suli got d'n'd support at the start of this year
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I realise now, given what Kott said, that you really need to define the problem better so it is not ambiguousI can't understand how this relates to my problem?
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Yeah, indeed
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Re: Program idea: Drag and Drop converter
@milk, so if this was unclear, I try bit more:tavasti wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 1:40 pm There is some windows VST plugins/stand alone programs for making drum beats / chord progressions which provide drag and drop for those midi sequences. MT Power Drum Kit is common example of such tool, and that is available for free: https://www.powerdrumkit.com/
Problem is that drag and drop is something which is not recognised by ardour/mixbus. I started to think, would it be possible to create simple program which could receive such DnD, and offer same stuff as linux midi drag and drop? DnD midi file from thunar/some other file manager works ok.
Is there anything like that available already, or suggestions for some example code? First step would be creating program that can receive those DnD's in, and then checking what it needs to be converted to suitable format.
I load MT Power Drum Kit ('for linux', it is windows VST still https://www.powerdrumkit.com/download76187.php) and use it wint LinVST in Linux Mixbus. When trying to drag'n'drop midi from that plugin to mixbus midi track, it is not accepted.
So what I am asking, would it be possible to write program that could receive that dnd from that windows plugin, and provide dnd in such format that I can drag it to my linux Mixbus.
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So it would be possible to dnd stuff from windows plugin to reaper, and export midi to file, and then import that to mixbus. Possible but not optimal workflow.
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Re: Program idea: Drag and Drop converter
Drop from thunar prints out <PyQt4.QtGui.QDragEnterEvent object at 0x7f541a226e10> and can be dropped. Drop from windows plugin shows that this object can't be dropped here. So I think it is impossible to create converter with PyQT4.
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