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I ended up making 4 Patterns instead of just one for white notes. SetPortPenLocation is not available in my IDE, and trying to affect pnLoc either with SetPenState, or a MoveTo didn't do anything. I even tried to SetOrigin to each note's top left corner, it just painted the region to the top...

are you on the bleeding edge version? check what just happened (mouse over-'ed button)

new milestone reached for Firejam, good to be called a beta v0.5. https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/digesting-midi-in-with-c-on-68k-macs-video.5134/post-46010 hopefully, I can release the first official youtube video on it on the very last day of MARCHintosh Tuesday.

New UI elements: big phat output buttons that mimick the output menu choices new menu: to select the active general midi instrument if you're in midi mode

I just tried it, I prefer 50% gray to be honest. This grabs attention less powerfully when it's in real time imho. compromise: active white notes with 33% gray active black notes with 50% gray

Big update on my new Mac Plus custom C application Firejam, I just enabled a key feature with the mouse https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/digesting-midi-in-with-c-on-68k-macs-video.5134/post-45969

breaking news! finally succeeded at allowing a held mouse click to drag notes along glissando style. I will not go into how many versions of this I tried and explored. Above 50 at least.

here we go, I changed the order to doing the Inset first with pure rectangles, then removing the intersecting black note region last

Hey, that's a cool idea. Check it out. Yes, I can already load 'snd ' files and I plan to do the whole Studio Session instrument files. That's a bit more complex since you have an intro part, then a loop interval and a decay part. Shouldn't be too hard. btw, "getting it all connected up" is...

I pre calculated the Regions for all keys, and did an Inset so that they keep a border when their visual is toggled. Then, i stashed them as an array, tucked in the piano controller's contlData field, which I declared as a Handle to all that data. I stashed a struct actually, but that handle to...

huge milestone, FINALLY cracked this real time note shading while I play with either: -mouse -regular keyboard -midi keyboard this is using a custom, heinously complicated CDEF control resource that can be reused in any project. Just load it with a LoadResource and...a few steps, but it's...

If I bypass custom controls completely and do my own mouseDown and mouseUp event detection, and mathematically figure out what rectangle to invert based on the MIDI note value, I can sorta do what I want with InvertRect. I just tested it on real hardware and so far, the amount of logical tests...

My current wish is to reverse highlight the note graphics as they are interacted with and i thought I'd make a Code Resource of a note shape in a rectangle. I read and tried to dig in these materials: * Original Inside Macintosh vol 1 * Later inside macintosh : control manager * Think C primer...

I added an about screen to my FireJam project https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/digesting-midi-in-with-c-on-68k-macs-video.5134/post-45390

The GUI elements are going along well, I zeroed in on using a standard WindowPtr and just populating it with GetNewControl one by one, it felt easier than doing it as a Modal dialog. This is the About screen, collab with Japhy Riddle who provided the graphic of the jar in flames.

posted a new shorts video above

I added my computation of values needed for the programming of the Sound Driver in a TD resource. https://tinkerdifferent.com/resources/sound-driver-reference-values-for-musical-notes.172/

The Sound Driver predates the Sound Manager. Sound Driver: original ROM routines from the Mac 128 to the Mac SE or so, still present in System 6.0.8 and early versions of System 7 for compatibility reasons. Sound Manager: started appearing in System 6.0.x and promised to manage snd resources...

*UPDATE for my project on March 8th: I started a thread about it: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/digesting-midi-in-with-c-on-68k-macs-video.5134/