1GNU GTick - The Metronome 2Copyright (c) 1999 Alex Roberts <bse@dial.pipex.com> 3Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> 4This software is part of the GNU Project. 5 6Welcome to GTick, a metronome application written using the GTK+ widget set. 7This application was written because of a need for a Linux (or UN*X) based 8metronome program. 9 10Having seen similar programs for Win95 (not really seen but at least noticed 11links to on various search engines), and not seen any for Linux/Un*x, Alex 12decided to go for it and wrote his own. Since then, many changes have been made 13to GTick, most importantly a more robust timing engine was added in 2003. 14 15GTick has a BPM (Beats Per Minute) scale of 30bpm to 250bpm, catering for 16almost any need; and it is known to work on Linux (Kernel 2.2.x to 2.6.x) and 17FreeBSD. It was initially developed using GTK+ 1.1.14, but moved to GTK+ 2.x. 18 19This is still in development, so there are likely to be bugs; So use it at your 20own risk, I can't be held responsible for anything bad happening to your 21computer or your life. 22 23To use external ticking sounds you need libsndfile, at least version 1. 24 25If you find a bug, have any comments or ideas, then email me, 26stigge@antcom.de or preferably the GTick development mailing list at 27gtick-devel@gnu.org. 28 29I "hijacked" this package because Alex doesn't respond to any mail and the 30package needed urgent work to be useable at all. Later, I got an email from 31him. He is fine and is still tracking GTick's progress. 32 33Visit the GTick homepage at http://www.antcom.de/gtick/ for the latest release 34of GTick. And don't forget, the most important thing, HAVE FUN!!! 35 36Thanks 37 38-- 39Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> (current maintainer) 40Alex Roberts <bse@dial.pipex.com> (initial maintainer) 41