20100221 Breakpoint demolog, day 19: loading Song.xml == DONE

I didn’t really feel like doing too much today but I managed to convince myself to finish the loading of relevant data from the song’s file. I now only have to instantiate patterns, pattern entries and synth voices and send them that relevant data when loading. And adapt my old tracker-style playing routine to work [...]

20100220 Breakpoint demolog, day 18: loading the Song.xml

I have finally decided that I’ll load directly Renoise’s Song.xml file instead of preprocessing it as I did with the .it files in to_the_beat. Right now, I’m manually uncompressing the .xrns file and copying the contained Song.xml file to my data folder, but in the future I would like to automate the process so that [...]

20090710 “Blue Tuesday” sources released

“Blue Tuesday” is a direct evolution from the codecolors code base. Since it was all done in a hurry, there were lots of things which didn’t work as expected. I somehow got rid of some of them when I ported the demo to mac, then I got rid of some extra things these days when [...]

20071211 UTF-8 checklist

Following the discussion in the previous post (Reasons for using UTF-8) I thought it could be interesting to gather a series of steps needed to get a UTF-8 friendly environment. I’m going to focus on php and mysql, because using mysql and ruby/rails and utf8 tends to be kind of easier (specially since newer Rails [...]

20070703 VerifyError: Error #1025: An invalid register 1 was accessed

If you need to parse some XML with namespaces in ActionScript 3 you may find this error quite soon: VerifyError: Error #1025: An invalid register 1 was accessed It all comes because of this line: default xml namespace = myXML.namespace(); It is needed in order to access the values in the namespaced value so removing [...]