BPM Notepad - scrolling notepad for musicians and public speakers

review from ClifNotes, Mar 2007, permalink Text Editors

From Clif:
JimiPocius recently sent me a letter about this program that he personally had a hand in creating. He'd heard about the Coding Snacks at DonationCoder forums and he simply asked them to write this program for him. As you can see below ... it's easy to get customized software at DonationCoder. I downloaded and tried this program out. It's a very good rich text editor and the addition of the scrolling makes it even better.

Post from Jimi to Coding Snacks forum:

hey folks, i'm a musician, and like to do everything on my pc, including lyrics and arrangements for the stuff i write.

i have windows xp, and usually just scroll down as i go ...no big deal if i'm singing (other than having to reach down and scroll the page lower) but when i'm playing an instrument, that can be a chore.

i noticed that if i press and hold my mouse wheel, i can set it to slowly scroll the text files i use down, but it's really hard to get it at the right speed to sync with a song.

so i was thinking maybe one of you amazin' developer gurus philanthropists may be able to help me and all the rest of the musos out there ... read the rest

Quote from "Gothic", author of the program:
BPM Notepad is a text editor for musicians, speakers, or anyone else that needs scrolling text to read. As you read, the text scrolls down, you can start with a preset speed and pause/speed up/down while reading.
Key features

  • Scrolls at pre-defined speed.
  • Easy to pause/resume by hitting the space bar.
  • Handy shortcuts to adjust speed while scrolling.
  • Free!
  • Open source
  • Cross-platform


BPM Notepad Homepage
http://linkerror.com/bpmnotepad.cgi

Request a program at Donation Coder
http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?board=31.0

Listen and Download Jimi's free music
http://indiehitz.net/html/bands/56/


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