First Steps

The first version of fGroove was created about 2 weeks ago and was fairly rapidly developed. This version has the following features:

• Scatterviewitems hold an instance of an audio loop. The loop is added to a queue in a ContactEventHandler attached to the ScatterViewItem's PreviewContactTapGesture.
• A Timer is set to go off every beat which pulls items out of the queue and starts playing them.
  
• Tapping a ScatterViewItem a second time adds the loop to the queue which will cause it to stop when the timer fires again.
• The timer changes the background colour of any ScatterViewItems that are currently active every beat. A list of active ScatterViewItems is held in a HashTable.
  
• Each ScatterViewItem has a SizeChangedEventHandler attached to it's SizeChanged property. When this is fired the volume of that loop is changed.
• Most of this version programattically changes the properties of the ScatterViewItem, very little is done in the XAML.
  
• The c#.net audio library naudio http://naudio.codeplex.com/ handles all of the complex audio loop playing. See http://opensebj.blogspot.com/2009/02/introduction-to-using-naudio.html for some tutorials on that.