Help Modifying Lyrics Window to Chord Region Sheet

[MusoBob]

There's a Cockos script Scripts\Cockos\lyrics.lua
I know I always ask too hard stuff but I'm just looking at modifying lyrics.lua to work as a chord/region viewer.
It will have 4 measures across and each beat of that measure can be edited with a chord name that will edit
or insert that region and display that region's color.
It needs to work like the gif under.
I don't mind making a donation if someone would like to help out.

[MusoBob]

The Editing mode in lyrics.lua lets you edit each beat so you can edit each beat of each measure and that will edit or inset the region/chord name, the measures will be the region color and the current playing measure will be highlighted, it will need bigger fonts maybe use the existing drop downs for font and size so you can use a music chord style font (see bottom pics):

[mpl]

Hi MusoBob, much thanks for such a big donation, really appreciated.
I `m not good at modifing others code, so here is one for you:


update ReaPack (Action list: ReaPack: Synchronize packages) and navigate for mpl_Region chord editor.lua. Also make sure you have installed mpl_Various_Functions package (you can install it also from reapack: ReaPack: Browse packages)

[MusoBob]

Thanks Awesome !!!

I will send some more donation if you can adjust some things.
1. To ignore a region, something like
if string.match( region_name, "@") then goto skip end -- skip region marked @ ignore
2. start is also measure 1 if Project start measure is -1 , not -1.1.00
3. 4 measures per line
4. only have chord name at start of region C . . . and dot for each beat (edit point)
to add new chord and split region C . G . (chord change to G on beat 3 will split the region,
removing chord will glue region) or 1 C . . . 2 . . . . 3 G . . . 4 . . . . (measure 1 C chord for 2 measures then chord change to G on measure 3 for 2 measures (bars))
5. chord editor color same as region color



4 measure per line, dot "." for edit point on each beat

[mpl]

1. To ignore a region, something like
if string.match( region_name, "@") then goto skip end -- skip region marked @ ignore

any region with @ character is ignored

2. start is also measure 1 if Project start measure is -1 , not -1.1.00

there is not way to know measure offset from API afaik

3. 4 measures per line

done

4. only have chord name at start of region C . . . and dot for each beat (edit point)
to add new chord and split region C . G . (chord change to G on beat 3 will split the region,
removing chord will glue region) or 1 C . . . 2 . . . . 3 G . . . 4 . . . . (measure 1 C chord for 2 measures then chord change to G on measure 3 for 2 measures (bars))

That was slightly complex (see Data_AddChord() function), but seems working now.

5. chord editor color same as region color

done

I also moved script to 'Regions' folder.

[Jae.Thomas]

very cool - i assume there's no way to make other regions overlapping these? or am I wrong