sciguy1/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.