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CreatingExercises

This page does not desribe the current implementation. It was a draft used for discussion. Parts of it has been implemented.

What we have now

• Now, using a text editor is the best option.
• There is a simple lessonfile editor included with the program. It can only create chord exercises. The editor should be integrated with Solfege.

Tasks

Creating a lesson file from scratch involves two different tasks:

• Writing the music code that mpd.musicdisplayer and friends can understand. Creating a GUI editor for this is difficult.
• Gluing the music together in a lesson file. Creating a GUI editor for this is easy.

New editor

It will be quite easy to write a lesson file editor that can create new lesson files from existing files. Not a optimal solution, but it will be nice until we have something better. This can stop the complaints from people that like to be able to manually select a few questions from one of the lesson files with lots of chords, like altered-2.

One very useful usage scenario:

Usage

• The user select a lesson from the "Practise" menu.
• Select from the menubar: "Edit->Lessonfile"
• A dialog opens. [ ] is check boxes:

 
 Create new lesson file

 Title: ________________
 Lesson_id: ________________   [BTN: generate unique id]

 [ ] question1
 [ ] question2
 [ ] question3
 [ ] question4


 [BTN: Add from another file] [BTN: Save lesson file]

We can add a musicdislayer to each questions, so the user can see the music when making the selection.

Clicking "Add from another file" will let you select from a list of compatible lesson files, where you can select some more questions.

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