SimpleDance
SimpleDance is a tool to enter and to visualze dance patterns
with help of the footsteps. It has a nice GUI and it's written
in Java so it should be quiet portable accross different platforms.
Download
| simpledance_win.zip | 1114.8 KB | (Version 0.7: 26.3.2003) | Windows user should try this. Includes SWT. |
| simpledance.zip | 120.4 KB | (Version 0.7: 26.3.2003) | Only includes direct SimpleDance. It doesn't include SWT. |
System requirements
Screenshots
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| Version 0.8 (On WindowsXP) | Version 0.6 (On WindowsXP) | Version 0.1 (On WindowsME) |
Motivation
You might ask why I wrote this tool?
The reason is that I started dancing somewhen in 2002. And I'm still at
a very beginning level. As I have sadly have no photographical memory I
simply regulary forget the steps I have learned recently.
After the lessons I often searched through the internet and suprisendly
I haven't found any good site of dance patterns.
Then I found Dance a tool written
by Markus Bader. It consits of some dance patterns and a way to create new
easily. Yes and this is what SimpleDance is trying to do as well. In fact,
if you compare both you will see that Dance has inspirated the development
of SimpleDance a lot.
There are more than reason for writting SimpleDance and not using Dance
for me. At first the GUI of Dance doesn't seem to be modern and usable for
me. I think such a tool should have a lot of better graphical user interface
(not saying the the current GUI of SimpleDance is really satisfying). Then
this is my first non Amiga computer related project I started. I think I can
get some new expierence from writeing it. And a last one is that Dance costs
something ;)
History
| 05/04/2003 | Version 0.7
- Finetuned some patterns
- New Pattern: Disco Fox - Basic Movement
- Improved the "Detailed Step Overview"
- Added "stop playing" and "play single frames" (both forward and backward) buttons
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| 03/28/2003 | Version 0.6
- Finally some nice ToolBar Icons created by Martin Merz. Great thanks to him!
- New Pattern: Vienesse Walz - Natural Turn
- New Pattern: Rumba - Rope Spinning
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| 03/06/2003 | Version 0.5
- Some step types are now visualized
- New Pattern: Samba - Whisks to Right and Left
- New Pattern: Samba - Walks in Promenande Position
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| 03/02/2003 | Version 0.4
- Added scrollbars to detailed overview
- Added four new dance patterns
- Started german translation
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| 02/12/2003 | Version 0.3
- Coordinates can be entered relative now
- Animation now longer blocks the GUI
- Removing the waypoints wasn't possible
- Added very limited detailed step overview window
- It was possible to open the pattern properties window twice
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| 02/08/2003 | Version 0.2
- Added doublebuffering of animations
- All strings are in english now and marked to be translatable
- The duration of an step is no longer restricted to slow and quick only
- Added a small ReadMe file
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| 02/05/2003 | Version 0.1 - Initial public release
- It's not more than an early alpha
- You can enter patterns and view them
- The duration of an step is no longer restricted to slow and quick only
- Only very little amount (exactly three! ;) ) of patterns are included
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Related links
Links about Dancing
| ADTV | German Dance Association (german only) |
Links about Java
