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 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.
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Pages saved in JSON format in .drill files
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Application state saved
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Simple click to add a dot
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Click and drag dot to move
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Right-click dot to remove
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Simple shift-click, control-click, and alt-click functions to select multiple dots
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Toggle showing grid lines
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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.
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Dot information such as instrument label, number, and position fine-tunable and reflected immediately.
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Dot position text shown in English:
Horizontal - Side 1: 1.5 inside of 10
Vertical - 4.0 in front of Back Hash
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Toggle displaying dot names (C1, A4, etc.)
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Easily print an individual page or the whole show
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Print dot sheets for every player with one click
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Play the move from the previous to current pages. Get automatically notified about extremely far moves and possible collisions
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Supports both High School and College hashes
