Musical Measures on Timeline Docker

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Hi Thomas,

It's an interesting idea, and I'd say: go for it. If you've got something working,
we can always figure out ways to make the visualization optional, if that's wanted.

As wolthera said, join us on irc, and get started by building Krita :-).

On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Thomas J. Webb wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am new to the krita codebase but there's a feature I'd like to implement if no
> one's planning on doing so and if you all would see this as a valuable addition. I
> need an animation program that lets me organize frames into measures, as described
> here (see especially the last pictures in the post):
> 
> http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2013/10/toonboom-bugs-1-timeline-hard-to-read.html
> 
> In short, I'd like to add the ability to specify time signature and tempo (limiting
> to what can cleanly divide, based on the framerate) and have at the least a measure
> ruler above the frame one and lines signifying ends of measures. A nice to have
> would be color coding the frames that are on the beat. I don't mind learning your
> coding conventions and doing the work myself to implement it but I want to see if
> this is something that would be invasive and, if so, if there'd be a way to make an
> alternate docker or plugin if this isn't wanted there by default.
> 
> -thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> 
>

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