Doepfer

Hi all,

You may or may not yet have seen my Modular Planner on the Doepfer website. It is currently linked to my site but they are hosting their own Euro price version soon, for now just open that link in a new browser window. I will be hosting the combined US/UK/Euro price version on my site soon.

I just wanted to give you a few tips on how best to use it. 

Because of the real estate the planner requires I recommend the minimum resolution of 1280x1024 to use it on the web. At this resolution with the browser maximised with F11 it is possible to view the entire planner without scrollbars. I will also probably make a executable version of the planner for offline use and offer as a download when i get my site fully up and runing.

To use the planner you add modules using the "+" next to the module name. The module is added to the lower right and you then click it and move it around the racks with the cursor keys. There is no drag and drop mouse control as it was causing problems so for now I have removed it. The cursor movement snaps to 2hp so everything fits perfectly.

You will notice that modules will go underneath others, this is something you will have to live with for now, I dont find it a problem really. I want to put in some kind of collision detection at a later date if I can get my head around it, this will avoid the problem altogether.

To delete a module, just click it and then press "-" next to its name. This will remove it and adjust all the values accordingly.

Everything else on their is pretty self explanatory. There are tooltips to give you quick information if you hover over the module names and quantities. 
Also an "i" you can click to go to Doepfer's main page for that module.

Im open to suggestion for further improvements but cannot promise anything. I have a lot of ideas myself like a patch version and a save option but this will be a way off as I want to move the planner into a php/mysql/flash enviroment before i do this, which is still something I'm learning.

All the best 
Andy




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WOW that's really cool web application! Now I know what I'm gonna do at work when I'm 
away from my baby LOL!!!

But hey, I don't know it it's technically possible, but could you add on some other lines of 
euro rack modules than Doepfer, like Plan b and Livewire?

very nice initiative!

g

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Parker <modularplanner@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> You may or may not yet have seen my Modular Planner on the Doepfer website. It is 
currently linked to my site but they are hosting their own Euro price version soon, for now 
just open that link in a new browser window. I will be hosting the combined US/UK/Euro 
price version on my site soon.
> 
> I just wanted to give you a few tips on how best to use it. 
> 
> Because of the real estate the planner requires I recommend the minimum resolution of 
1280x1024 to use it on the web. At this resolution with the browser maximised with F11 it 
is possible to view the entire planner without scrollbars. I will also probably make a 
executable version of the planner for offline use and offer as a download when i get my 
site fully up and runing.
> 
> To use the planner you add modules using the "+" next to the module name. The 
module is added to the lower right and you then click it and move it around the racks with 
the cursor keys. There is no drag and drop mouse control as it was causing problems so 
for now I have removed it. The cursor movement snaps to 2hp so everything fits perfectly.
> 
> You will notice that modules will go underneath others, this is something you will have 
to live with for now, I dont find it a problem really. I want to put in some kind of collision 
detection at a later date if I can get my head around it, this will avoid the problem 
altogether.
> 
> To delete a module, just click it and then press "-" next to its name. This will remove it 
and adjust all the values accordingly.
> 
> Everything else on their is pretty self explanatory. There are tooltips to give you quick 
information if you hover over the module names and quantities. 
> Also an "i" you can click to go to Doepfer's main page for that module.
> 
> Im open to suggestion for further improvements but cannot promise anything. I have a 
lot of ideas myself like a patch version and a save option but this will be a way off as I 
want to move the planner into a php/mysql/flash enviroment before i do this, which is still 
something I'm learning.

> 
> All the best 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Nice piece of software - thanks!

The save/load option is definitely a good idea, in my opinion much more
important than collision detection (which would actually make it harder to
move modules around when space becomes crowded) and drag and drop (may be
faster to work with, but cursor keys work just fine). An "export to jpeg"
option would be nice especially for those on smaller screens but a
screendump (ALT+PrtScr) and paste in your fav image editor will do - you can
always make two and glue them together if everything can't fit in one go.

One thing I noticed is that the holes for mounting screws in the rails don't
really fit - not really important but it would look nice ;)

It would be nice to be able to set the number of rows (within reasonable
limits of course). Not really a problem for me as I have exactly four, but
still... I don't know if you can resize a flash app "on the fly" so it might
not really be feasible.

If you add modules of other brands please consider adding the ASol/ASys
modules also if it's not too much hassle to get around the unequal placement
of the mounting holes. For DIY'ers an option to make custom size blanks and
give them a text description would be nice.

I just got the idea that instead of collision detection (which as I wrote
above would sometimes get in the way) an option to detect and mark
overlapping modules would be nice.

OK, enough feature requests, thank you again for taking the time to put this
juicy piece of software together.

/Silas

On 9/8/07, Andrew Parker <modularplanner@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   Hi all,
>
> You may or may not yet have seen my Modular Planner on the Doepfer
> website. It is currently linked to my site but they are hosting their own
> Euro price version soon, for now just open that link in a new browser
> window. I will be hosting the combined US/UK/Euro price version on my site
> soon.
>
> I just wanted to give you a few tips on how best to use it.
>
> Because of the real estate the planner requires I recommend the minimum
> resolution of 1280x1024 to use it on the web. At this resolution with the
> browser maximised with F11 it is possible to view the entire planner without
> scrollbars. I will also probably make a executable version of the planner
> for offline use and offer as a download when i get my site fully up and
> runing.
>
> To use the planner you add modules using the "+" next to the module name.
> The module is added to the lower right and you then click it and move it
> around the racks with the cursor keys. There is no drag and drop mouse
> control as it was causing problems so for now I have removed it. The cursor
> movement snaps to 2hp so everything fits perfectly.
>
> You will notice that modules will go underneath others, this is something
> you will have to live with for now, I dont find it a problem really. I want
> to put in some kind of collision detection at a later date if I can get my
> head around it, this will avoid the problem altogether.
>
> To delete a module, just click it and then press "-" next to its name.
> This will remove it and adjust all the values accordingly.
>
> Everything else on their is pretty self explanatory. There are tooltips to
> give you quick information if you hover over the module names and
> quantities.
> Also an "i" you can click to go to Doepfer's main page for that module.
>
> Im open to suggestion for further improvements but cannot promise
> anything. I have a lot of ideas myself like a patch version and a save
> option but this will be a way off as I want to move the planner into a
> php/mysql/flash enviroment before i do this, which is still something I'm
> learning.
>
> All the best
> Andy
>
> __________________________________________________________
> Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try
> it
> now.
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>
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