[CM] cm in juce 2.0, jack

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On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 01:36:38PM -0500, Heinrich Taube wrote:
>
> thanks for your detailed report!  ill take a look at the editor issue tomorrow.

Oops.  Looks like I had accidentally replied just to you instead of to
both you the mailinglist.  I'll just repost my original message
below, for posterity.

  --Sergey

> > Thank you for the new version of Common Music!
> >
> > I just built it successfully on amd64 gentoo linux.  The full build log
> > can be seen here:  http://pastie.org/4733080
> >
> > Grace starts up fine, and reports:  http://pastie.org/4733091
> >
> > I was able to connect Grace to yoshimi by selecting "Audio->Midi
> > Out...->jack_midi" in Grace and using patchage to connect the
> > system:midi_capture_8 port to yoshimi's "midi_in" port.
> >
> > Here is what my jack connections look like in patchage:
> >
> >   http://img1.imagilive.com/0912/cm-svn-patchage.png
> >
> > When I selected "Audio->Midi Out...->Test Output", I could hear notes
> > come from yoshimi.
> >
> > Then I in "Audio->Audio Settings...", I selected "audio device type" of
> > "JACK" (screenshot of all the settings can be seen here:
> > http://img1.imagilive.com/0912/grace-audio-settings.png ) and when I
> > pressed the "Test" button, I could hear a tone.
> >
> > So far so good.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there seems to be some kind of screen refresh issue in
> > the editor.  When I switch from one theme to another, the editor window
> > does not fully refresh.  For example, here is what it looks like when I
> > switch from the "Deep Blue" theme to "Clarity and Beauty":
> > http://img1.imagilive.com/0912/grace-editor-refresh-issue.png
> >
> > As you can see, only the portion of the editor window that was under the
> > "Options->Theme" menu got refreshed and switched to the "Clarity and
> > Beauty" theme.  The rest of the editor window remains in the previous
> > theme colors until I do somethign like switch workspaces in my window
> > manager and then switch back (or until I switch to another window and
> > switch back to the editor window).
> >
> > Also, note how some of the text in the "Clarity and Beauty" theme
> > remains black, so that it's effectively invisible and unreadable on the
> > black background of the "Clarity and Beauty" theme.  These refresh
> > issues and the black text issue are new for the svn version of Grace,
> > and were not present in the stable 3.8.0 version.
> >
> > Another problem is that I can't seem to get midi input to work.  When I
> > run "(mp:receiver (lambda args (print args)))" from the editor, I get an
> > error:  ">>> Error: mp:receiver: unbound variable" despite "mp:receiver"
> > being documented here:
> >
> >   http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/cm/res/doc/cm.html#midi-in
> >
> > Finally, it looks like only the "Grace" binary was built, and there is
> > no "cm" command line REPL, as in the stable 3.8.0 version.
> >
> > That's all I've been able to test so far.
> >
> >   --Sergey