How to create a tableture program

-TesseracT- · June 8, 2015

I'm a beginner programmer and this is probably out of my league but I have some questions surrounding a piece of software. "Guitar Pro is a multitrack editor of guitar and bass tablature and musical scores, possessing a built-in MIDI-editor, a plotter of chords, a player, a metronome and other tools for guitarists and musicians."

http://imgur.com/xJHmA2C

http://imgur.com/SjWQr7g

http://imgur.com/SwKhYga

http://imgur.com/qliqn58

Now as you can see it is very dynamic, altering the pixel size of some of the numbers when you fill the beat with more. How would one accomplish this? I want to make my own. What is used to do this?

Xaring · June 8, 2015

Fix the links please

MrKickkiller · June 8, 2015

I'm a beginner programmer and this is probably out of my league but I have some questions surrounding a piece of software. "Guitar Pro is a multitrack editor of guitar and bass tablature and musical scores, possessing a built-in MIDI-editor, a plotter of chords, a player, a metronome and other tools for guitarists and musicians."

http://imgur.com/xJHmA2C

http://imgur.com/SjWQr7g

http://imgur.com/SwKhYga

http://imgur.com/qliqn58

Now as you can see it is very dynamic, altering the pixel size of some of the numbers when you fill the beat with more. How would one accomplish this? I want to make my own. What is used to do this?

If the program is open-source, you can download the source and search for the font-size control in the source code.

If it's a paying program, you're out of luck.

-TesseracT- · June 8, 2015

If the program is open-source, you can download the source and search for the font-size control in the source code.

If it's a paying program, you're out of luck.

Oh yes I just thought of something. The program is not free but there is a similar program called tuxguitar that is open-source actually. Now if only it was written in C# or C++... I'll see what I can do.

-TesseracT- · June 8, 2015

Ok I downloaded Eclipse since the program is written in Java, what exactly do I do? I'm met with many XML-documents, "File"s and plug ins, and I open the files but can't make any sense of them.

http://imgur.com/Xz4E6TB

http://imgur.com/QBVqV4c