ShowLine

Introduction

ShowLine is a tool designed to aid ringers in learning methods by providing a clear graphical representation of the method’s line. It allows the user a lot of choice about what information is displayed and also provides a print facility. ShowLine is designed to run either as a stand-alone application or as a web-based applet.

Screenshots

The following screenshots are taken from the current ‘work in progress’ version of ShowLine. The interface for entering methods that is shown in these screenshots is a temporary one. This will be made far more user-friendly before any official release of ShowLine is made.

Screen shot of Bob Minor displayed in ShowLine

Screen shot of Bob Minor with two bells traced and no numbers shown

Features

• Can draw any method providing that its place notation is known
• Draws the blue line for any bell in a method, and optionally for several bells at once in different colours
• Supports printing of lines. This provides a paper copy of the line as it is viewed on the screen. Automatically makes best use of any available paper size. Both portrait and landscape printing are supported
• Automatically ‘traces’ hunt bells and the highest working bells when a method is first displayed. Can also handle methods with more than one set of working bells
• Shows the start position for any bell
• Draws the method’s place notation alongside the line diagram
• The user can configure whether to draw bell numbers or just to show the lines
• Optionally displays bobs and singles
• Maintains a history of entered place notations. These can easily be selected from a drop down list
• Lines can be split at lead-ends or drawn in a single continuous column
• Will run on any operating system that supports Java (this includes Windows and Linux)

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Copyright © 2001 Max Joseph Spicer
Last modified: 9/1/2002.