Thanks for all the positive feedback. To date, there’s been over 32,000 downloads of GuitarChords and the software reached #4 on the Apple Top 50 Dashboard Widget list. But rather than rest on our laurels, you can now download GuitarChords 1.5. Additional features in this release include:
- Sound! Click the play button and hear what the chord sounds like. Each string is played one at a time, and then the chord is played all at once.
- Choose from all the guitar sounds in Apple’s built-in synthesizer
- Control the speed of playback for the chord
- View the fretboard left-handed or right-handed
- Partially displayed chords are auto-scrolled so that they appear fully on the screen
- Get feedback if a chord cannot be found to display on the fretboard
Two highly requested features that did NOT make it into this version, but should make it into the next one are horizontal views and four-note chords (7th, add9, etc.). Look for those to be added before the end of the summer.
As for the future, soon I’ll also be releasing the GuitarChordsPlugin. It’s a custom plugin written in Objective-C that other Dashboard developers can use to play sound in their own widgets. It’s mostly finished, but I need to write some decent documentation for it first. More about that later. For now, let me know if version 1.5 gives you any problems.
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Matt |
Awesome widget! For some odd reason when I try to get a chord to play, the widget locks up and I have to close it and relaunch it to get it back. Any thoughts?
wubbahed |
FYI, when I uploaded the widget to this website I accidentally uploaded a bad version of it that crashes. I quickly replaced it with the correct version about 10 minutes later, but on the odd chance you were one of the unfortunate people who got a bad download, then just re-download it and let me know if it’s still giving you problems. Thanks.
Don Zoolander |
The widget is really, really good-looking, but it still crashes. However, it IS really, really good-looking.