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How hard would it be to actually send the tracker notation info to a printer (or, at least, print the window to a text file)? Or is it even possible to do at the rate this project's going with new expansion chips & bug fixes?
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I do have one little suggestion for this, though; perhaps the sound channel columns should be separated with a | instead of a : (just to make it a bit easier for new users to read). But again, I'd hope this wouldn't interfere with the text importing feature in any way (I know how finicky Visual Studio can be at times).
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Yeah; but if you do that & try to import it back again, it won't work. So I'd better not edit anything. :P
There's a bit of a quirk with this new text export feature, though; certain channel columns are left blank if they use a pattern that was already displayed in a previous pattern.
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Well, are you trying to print it out, or re-import? And replacing : with | is a reversible operation.
W.r.t the "quirk", the pattern data is an indication of what's in the FTM file, not simply a readout of what you'd see on the screen in Famitracker.
Specifically, the pattern data is organized by pattern number. It is not affected by the order frames.
If your order is like:
00 00 00 00 00
01 01 01 01 01
02 02 02 02 02
etc.
Then, and only then will the text pattern data look like it does in the tracker.
The reason it is done this way is so that there is a 1:1 correspondence between pattern data and something that's in the file. Otherwise the text would have duplicates of patern 00, for example, and if you edited some of those duplicates and not the others, how should the program decide which version of patern 00 to use? There has to be only one of each pattern in the data.
Thanks for that; now I know it's much more than just CTRL+H in a text editor & replacing colons; I'd also have to copy & paste whatever patterns are needed so that I can display exactly what I intend to print (the tracker screen as it is).
It all makes sense for the way the program works anyways, since the patterns are defined like you stated anyways.
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well, you could write a script to rearrange and duplicate patterns to make the order into 00 00 00 00 00, 01 01 01 01 01, etc. I've been considering doing this, actually, since it really makes editing difficult when I am handed an FTM that has a chaotic looking order.
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