evanbelcher/drillbook

DrillBook is a marching band drill creation software. It is designed to help drill writers and band directors create, edit, and print drill pages with ease and control.

Update

You may be wondering about the seemingly-stagnant codebase of DrillBook over the past months. Don't fear -- this project is not dead. On the contrary, it's going through a glorious rebirth. We are recreating DrillBook using Electron instead of Java Swing. This will give the project a much (MUCH!) cleaner, more intuitive, and more flexible UI. It will also ease the cross-platform installation process. These benefits, plus the "now we know better" changes we're implementing in the new design means that DrillBook will be back and better than ever.

TL;DR: This repo hasn't been active because we're revamping the technology behind the scenes. Please be patient; you won't regret it!

DrillBook

DrillBook is a marching band drill creation software. It is designed to help drill writers and band directors create, edit, and print drill pages with ease and control.

Features

• Pages saved in JSON format in .drill files

• Application state saved

• Simple click to add a dot

• Click and drag dot to move

• Right-click dot to remove

• Simple shift-click, control-click, and alt-click functions to select multiple dots

• Toggle showing grid lines

• Page information such as page number, song title, beginning and ending measures, counts, and notes controlled with ease and displayed in a (movable) text box on the page itself.

• Dot information such as instrument label, number, and position fine-tunable and reflected immediately.

• Dot position text shown in English:

  Horizontal - Side 1: 1.5 inside of 10

  Vertical - 4.0 in front of Back Hash

• Toggle displaying dot names (C1, A4, etc.)

• Easily print an individual page or the whole show

• Print dot sheets for every player with one click

• Play the move from the previous to current pages. Get automatically notified about extremely far moves and possible collisions

• Supports both High School and College hashes

Usage

Samples

UI Sample:

Page Sample:

Dot Sheet Sample:

DrillBook was written by Evan Belcher starting in 2016. Isaac Shiekh was brought on to the project in mid-2017.

drillbook's Issues

Migrate from pegdown to flexmark-java

pegdown has been deprecated. flexmark-java is the recommended alternative.
https://github.com/sirthias/pegdown
https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java

Allow bulk changing of instrument

Cut, Copy, Paste points

Notification system

Enhancement for data box

Potential for transparency of data box could eliminate the need to move it around. Alternatively, a more compact data box could be a selectable option once a user has familiarised themselves with the layout in order to free up the field space.

First time intro screen / tutorial

Explain basic features

CHOOSE A NAME

Figure out how to accept payment and distribute and use license key

Show page at different viewing angles

General: Create full website instead of Blogger

Decide a price

Migrate from io.github.dheid.fontchooser to something with freer license

This will allow me to eventually close-source and commercialize the software, which cannot currently be done while fontchooser is being used under the copyleft GNU LGPL.
Either find or create another font chooser.

Safe saving / loading

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11239495/checking-if-file-is-completely-written

Configurable filepaths

Settings

-Font size
-Others

Group by instrument

Data consistency across screen sizes

Configurable keyboard shortcuts

Binary file instead of ascii

Full undo & redo

Automatic updates

Dot sheet - highlight beginning of each song

can't embed as java applet

Hello, I'm trying to use this software as an embed into my website. Can you offer any help as to how I would do this? I was suggested the following code:

but all I get is a blank page. Any help on how I can embed or otherwise offer this on my website (other than just having the user download the exe file) would be great! Thanks so much!

Splash screen

Easy enough to implement in Java, complications are:

1. Maven
2. Actually making/getting a good gif
3. Finalized title first lul

Save As

About tab

Color code points by instrument

This should be a setting.

Single instance

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/177189/how-to-implement-a-single-instance-java-application

Proper boundaries for dragging groups of points

Steps to make monetization possible

#31
#30
#32
Add code to limit unlicensed versions:

• Max points per page: 20
• Max pages to print: 3

Draw Shapes

Play Function

Make Text Box separate from grid

Update README