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M-File Definition

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File Menu
File Menu:

Open

Reindex

Edit

Print

Exit

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File|Open
You can select the file you want to see from an Open Dialog.

The songs are listed in the list box and you can sort them by Author or Song Title.

You can allso select that only files that have particular key are to be displayed.

Key is defined in M File and can by Text, Chords or Tablature.

See: M-File Definition

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File|Reindex
Reindex command creates the file mread.idx which is needed for loading the M-File.

You must allways reindex after any changes in the M-Files.

BTW: all M-Files are stored in the .\M directory

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File|Edit
Edit command loads the notepad with the current M-file for editing.

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File|Print
Print command prints the current M-file on the standard printer.

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Exit
What do you think?


Window
In Window menu are standard commands for MDI Windows.


Help
You really don't want help how to get help, do you?


SpeedBar

Display this Help

Load M File

Reindex M Files

Display Chord

Turn Chords half tone down

Turn Chords half tone up

Prints current M-File

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Keyboard

F1 - Display this Help

F3 - Open M-File

F4 - Reindex

F6 - Edit

F10 - Display Chord

Alt+F4 - Leave M-Read

left arrow - chords half tone down

right arrow - chords half tone up

down - scroll file one line down

up - scroll file one line up

home - go to the begining of the file

end - go to the end of the file

page up - go one page up

page down - go one page down

space - go half page down

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Mouse
With mouse you can click on the speedbar buttons for faster selection, scroll M-files using scroll bar and if you click on chord in M-file you'll see it.

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Chords Menu
Chords Menu:

Display Chord

Chords half tone up

Chords half tone down

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Display Chord
Lists all chords, so you can preview them and display one if you want.

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Tune Chord
It's like tuning a guitar or using a capo.


M-File Definition

MFile Definition

1. File extension is M

2. In first line is allways the song title, line starts with I

3. In second line is usually song writer, line starts with I

4. In thirs line is usually type, line starts with I. This key can be set to A T M.

5. Other I lines are ignored for now.

6. Line with chords starts with M

7. Line with text starts with T

8. Line with tabs starts with  A

9. Comment line starts with C

Exp:

Filename: TODAY.M	<< (1)

IToday	<< (2)

IBy: Smashing Pumpkins	<< (3)

ITYPE: ATM	<< (4), it's set to ATM, because song has Tabs[A], Text[T] and Chords [M]

ILP: Siamese Dream	<< (5) this line is ignored

Cintro/theme riff	<< (9)

A---11----13----11----15p11------ 	<< (8)

A------11----11----11-------11---	.

A--------------------------------  	.

A-------------------------------- 	.

A--------------------------------	.

A--------------------------------	<< (8)

MEb5  Bb          Ab	<< (6)

T  Today is the greatest day I've ever known	<< (7)

That's it. And remember: all .M files must be in the .\M directory.

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