Free tablature editor software for linux

Tablature is a set of tools that allows easy edition, publication and playback of Bass and Guitar Tablatures. Entirely written in Java.
It will work on next operating systems:
MacOS8 :
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.1
Linux :
with JDK1.1.7 from Sun
Solaris :
with JDK1.1.7 from Sun
Other Unix(s) :
follow JDK ports link at http://java.sun.com/products/jdk
Enhancements:
- several bug fixing
- started the addition of the text-tab converter (not finished)
- documentation, packaging

Ara is an automatic editor of RSS feed. Only the links towards the Web pages must be given to him. The project is able to retrieve the title and the description of the pages and to produce a syndication file in the RSS format.

It enables you to select the pages to be syndicated instead of publishing the last articles systematically as the generators included in content managers do it.
The Ara term means "Atom and RSS API", it is also the name of a species of parrots from South America.

Using Ara

The program is a set of PHP scripts which have to be stored on a Web site. One creates a feed from the browser by entering the URL of the interface, ara.php.
It is easier to use the program with two browsers, one to display the pages to include and to copy the URLs from the URL input field, the other to edit the RSS file. Thus by just a cut and paste action one transfers the URL from the field to the interface and one clicks on "Add" to add it to the list.

The EDIT button on the left of the link makes it possible to modify the title and description if one wants.

To generate the feed, one enters the nam.

Warning
Ara is not a simple editor, when a page is added, it is reads for extracting useful information and for this purpose Ara makes use of Ajax (with the Anaa framework ), but Ajax can read files only from the site where it is installed. Actually the goal is to build the feed of the site, just avoid to give URL to other sites.

How it works

It is an Ajax script with a backend in PHP 5. In the current version only the pages of the website where it is installed can be added to the feed.

It is necessary to be authenticated to use it, to this goal the install.php program allows to register a login and a password. This file must absolutely be be erased. Once registered, the user remains registered for the whole session, even if he reads other pages meanwhile.

To generate the contents automatically, the program loads the pages given in the list and reads in the head section the contents of the title and description tags. If they are missing, the first H1 tag in the body of the page will be used for the title instead.

The same if description misses, the text of the synopsis will be taken from the page instead.

PlEd is intendet to help to automate tasks of Textmanipulating, which are to special, to be found in ordinary ediors.
The project is mainly an interface to be easily extended with own plugins. Some plugins are shipped for demonstration and stimulus.
To be true, I have to admit, that I would prefer to see my prefered editors to provide such functionality, instead of using two editors.
Main features:
- PlEd is written in Java.
- is copyright under the GPL .
- is meant for hackers, coders, professionals.
- comes with commented source.
Enhancements:
- A configurable interface was added to change the meaning of buttons for inverse meanings.
- Performance and memory usage were improved by using StringBuffer instead of Strings.
- The license was changed to GPL 3.0.
- Minor improvements were made to the IndentationPlugin and Tab2HtmlPlugin plugins.

Video Related Picture Editor is a gtk2 GUI frontend for batch-manipulating images using ImageMagick, MPlayer and transcode.

Its also the name of the infamous VRPE Team who paid me for hacking this together quickly because they needed it.

The name

Why "video related picture encoder" ? Because I didnt find a better name :) Any suggestions are welcome. With v0.1 the project was called "gFader" because all it did was "morphing" single frames to slow-down a video (giving a "fade-like effect") as batch-job with nice gui so poor Windows users could use it ;) My customer then wanted gFader to also do crop and scaling of multiple image files which rendered "gFader" as projectname useless. So i tried to make up some general name, which still fits if the application-range grows.

What can it do?

VRPE is able to do batch image-processing on a large set of images providing a way to move between images and giving a preview of the current, the previous and the next frame all with a nice GUI.

Different effects can be applied to the image-set (e.g morph, crop). Some of the effects support variable parameters so an effect can change with the image position.

VRPE can load several image formats (the ones supported by gtk2 and ImageMagick) or can convert almost any video to single frames using mplayer. It exports single images but also can render a videofile using mencoder or transcode. You can even launch mplayer to look at what youve done.

Other Features are:

Tooltip explainations almost everywhere
Nice wiki
quite fast

Drawbacks at this time:

lousy hacked together code
somewhat static filename handling
no "project" cababilities (images from previous sessions get imported if directory is not cleared etc.)
morph-curve gets lost
many more...

Samoth World Editor project consists of medieval/fantasy universe RPG.
Main features:
- Map loading/creation/saving (the last one almost done, physics still to do)
- Real-time scene viewing
- Scene tree edition
- Node, light, skybox, fog edition
- Physics creation (from mesh) : done, but useless, since they cannot be saved yet.
Enhancements:
- First draw : map editor available, even if not finished.

RJCE allows all methods or variables of user defined classes to be altered at runtime. These alterations are then applied to a single instance, a collection of instances (i.e. list, set or map), or an entire class.

This helps you to test your application in an interactive way; altering running programs helping a trial and error approach to programming; testing code and saving it when it’s correct. Long running algorithms, such as simulations, can also easily be refined without the need for restarts or lose of data.

RJCE can be used to write a program from within itself ensuring high coupling between testing and development, with no delay before the outcome of any alterations.

RJCE allows scripts to run from within your application, allowing users to configure or extend an application dynamically, bypassing normal language access rules controlled by public, private and protected. This can be done by easily instatiating an instance of CodeEditorFrame from the rom.gui package.

RJCE permits faster development of applications by allowing easy migration from scripts to Java programs.

PGID3 is an ID3v1 and v2 tag editor for manipulating the information on files such as MP3s. PGID3 Tag Editor project is written in PHP and uses PHP-GTK, so it can take advantage of the GTK+ Toolkit for rendering a GUI.

The program itself is broken into three parts, a PHP Function Library called Pid Three (Pid3), a PHP CLI interface (PCLID3), and the GTK+ GUI itself. All three parts come together ready to go, so do not go freaking about uber amounts of dependencies to fill. All together they create the PGID3 Tag Editor.

"But Bob," you might say, "PHP is for the web!" Sure it is, but you should then check out the link below for the PHP Command Line Interface. That document describes using PHP to develop shell and desktop applications. Why PHP? Because I like to abuse it, that is a little hobby of mine.

Simply, PGID3 is an ID3 tag editor for MP3 files. The ID3 tags are what tell your media player the information about the tune such as title, album, etc. You can get by with slack tags if you just use a player like XMMS or Winamp, but if you have a portable like an iPod or some kind of database for the files, then correct and neat tags are a must. PGID3 can handle both the v1 and v2 of ID3 tags.

As for the program itself, it is the combonation of three seperate pieces that together work to create a user friendly envrionment to manipulate your ID3 tags. The base of it all is the Pid Three Function library, which is a fully custom set of functions for the reading and writing of ID3 tags. Since these are seperate from the application itself, the actual dirty work of messing with the data can be easily updated as well as easily included into other projects.

The second part of PGID3 is the Command Line Interface that I have lovingly called PCLID3. Using this you can manipulate your tags from the command line without using any type of graphical front end. By not having this built into the GUI, the opportunity is left open to build alternate GUIs, or even just not use any at all.

The third and final piece is the PHP-GTK GUI. This is the actual PGID3 component, though all of the parts together form a complete package under the PGID3 name. I designed this GUI to be light, compact, and solve as many problems in one spot as possible. As a bonus feature, PGID3 has built in intergration with QueryXMMS which is a command line utility for Linux that can ask XMMS what is currently playing so PGID3 can open it. This speeds up editing of playlists considerably.

Enough acronymns, what about features? Well, it is an ID3 editor so the features I would expect to find in one is what it has. It has the ability to read, write, and strip ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags from files. You can open a file from anywhere in the filesystem with a dialog, or using the above mentioned QueryXMMS integration you can zap right to whatever XMMS is playing.

If you leave the comment field blank when you write a tag, it fills it in automaticly with "Tagged by PGID3" which might be an easily disabled in future releases - depends if I get any feedback on that. It also automaticly removes excess whitespace on the end of tags which if I recall correctly happens because Winamp pads with spaces instead of nuls. Anyway it cleans that for you. Stripping a tag automaticly unchecks the related checkbox for writing it back, and the boxes are dynamicly checked as you load a file depending if it already has a v1 or v2 tag.

There are also a few keyboard shortcuts. F1 toggles the Write ID3v1 checkbox, and F2 toggles the Write ID3v2 one. F9 opens the currently playing file in XMMS, and naturally Enter writes tags.

KXML Editor is application for KDE, that display and edit contents of XML file.
Main features:
- Drag and drop editing, clipboard support
- Use DOM level 2 Qt library parser
- KParts technology support
- DCOP technology support
- Editing KOffice compressed files
Enhancements:
- Updated /admin with latest kde-common/admin contents
- Switched the default item insert point to "at bottom" for the "New Element", "New Proc.Instr." and "New CData" dialogs.
- Implemented feature request #1044396 "Reload function".
- Fixed a little usability bug. Tabbing between the widgets work (better) now (all unvisible widgets reject focus on tab).
- Fixed the bug mentioned in feature request #1049159 "Keyboard shortcut for closing the "Edit XML as raw text" win".
- Implemented feature request #1048738 "F2 button for editing text content".
- Added fix_paths script to fix hardcoded paths in files generated by dcopidl2cpp