Re-engineering Cantabile's Bindings Framework

Transport was a tricky one - primarily because of the transport position bindings:


Custom triggers have been moved from their own bindable object to a simpler User Trigger on the Engine object (for both sending and receiving user triggers).


Navigation bindable used to provide invokable commands for a limited set of navigation keystrokes. This has now been replaced with a “Send Key” binding point under PC Keyboard and lets you send any key you like:

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And that’s all the binding points converted to the new system. Now I just need to finish the new system.

In my original post on this I mentioned that I was terrible at estimating this kind of work, and I was right. I completely underestimated just how extensive the binding system in Cantabile is. There still a lot of work to be done here, but I feel like I’m starting to make inroads.

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It’s sounding like the new bindings will have greater potential, and be easier to maintain. Your efforts do not go unnnoticed.

Great work!

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This required updating TranslateTool to be able to extract strings from C# attributes. Rather than full parse, I’m just using regular expressions (see here). Not perfect but it works well enough for what I need here.

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Miscellaneous jobs todays:

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@brad

How does circular bindings prevention work in this case?

Thanks,

Dave

Same as before - if a binding is invoked while it’s already dispatching itself then it ignores the reentrant invocation.

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Started on the UI for mapping values between source and target binding points:

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This re-engineering looks really helpful. Just curious, what’s the progress (%) so far of your expected task(s), and what is the ETA (days, weeks, etc.) for a beta?

Hi @easteelreath,

you can have a look at the Trello card to get an idea.
Gabriel

Thanks. Getting there…

The Trello card is the best indicator of work remaining. Unfortunately, somedays I’m adding more tasks than I cross off :frowning: - but usually those are smaller tasks.

As mentioned above, I completely underestimated the scale and complexity of this work, but I will get there eventually.

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I was so bad at estimating when I was doing my energy software business that I finally started just multiplying them by 7. And it actually worked pretty good! :laughing:

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When our software developers give us estimates, we usually triple them… That seems to work for us :wink:

PS: I am of course a developer myself, so I am often equally guilty of over optimism. And I seem to be getting slower (other priorties). I purchase my Yamaha Montage in 2017 and I still have not finished my librarian for it (soooo close now…) :slight_smile:

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Listen to Scotty …

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Also made some improvements to the manual invoke button. Previously it only worked with some bindings. Now you can test by sending various values, depending on the binding source kind:

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Nice to see ‘Send 0.0 dB’ there! I have to edit that every time.

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I know I’ve been quiet on this for too long, but I have been making some progress:

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