While I will tweak the GUI as is necessary and beneficial, and work to maintain compatibility with existing operating concepts, file formats and such. Much effort has gone into training users on the current OpenSong interface, into entering songs into the OpenSong format, and other non-code assets. However, I am trying to reuse as much of the GUI design and as many concepts as possible in order to keep as much the same as possible. That may not sound reasonable given that I am attempting basically a complete rewrite. This prevented me from initially contributing. Only a small number of people have experience with RealBasic, which limits the number of involved developers.Īlso, the developement environment costs a non-trivial amount of money, further limiting developers. Implementation language limits the size of the developer community.Tweaks have helped with this issue, but I don't believe that it can be completely resolved in RealBasic. If you run through the message boards, you can see many people having issues with performance, especially with slide transitions and at higher resolutions. Implementation language has performance problems.However, I think this prevents Opensong from staying competitive with other packages. Implementation language prevents some advanced features such as video backgrounds from being implemented.Īs RealBasic is currently used, features are limited to what RealBasic provides, which have proved sufficient for basic functionality at this point.Opensong currently has the following limitations that I think will limit its current development trajectory: What is wrong with the current Opensong? (technical)
#OPENSONG SONG FORMAT CODE#
The code is available from SVN at Sourceforge here.īefore you begin working on any features, please coordinate with me via email (lee (AT) ) to ensure that we don't waste effort working on the same features! I'd like if your code uses a similar coding style to the current code base, along with best practices for Java and production application development.
#OPENSONG SONG FORMAT HOW TO#
#OPENSONG SONG FORMAT SOFTWARE#
Testers As the software is currently in development, I need advanced testers to find and document bugs.Īs the project is at an early stage, experience building and debugging Java application is a must.
We currently recommend Opensong or OpenLP. I have started to reimplement Opensong in a different programming language, hoping to avoid many of the issues encountered in the current implementation, adding additional features and usability improvements as I see fit. It lacks many features found in more expensive software packages. Opensong has several limitations that currently limit its usefulness. It is designed to be used by churches to manage lyrics, project songs, and print out chord sheets. Opensong is an open source lyric projection application.
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