FrettyCharts Help Manual

Getting Started

Introduction

Sample Gallery

Using the Application

Managing Projects

Product Registration

Editing

Adding a Chord

Adding a Scale

Adding a Group

Editing Chords

Editing Scales

Setting the Tuning

Rendering

Render Project

Render Item

Printing

Styles

Managing Styles

General Settings

Preview

Colors

Text and Fonts

Sizing

Spacing

Fret Layout

Markers

Barre Chords

Display Items

Project Settings

HTML Rendering

MIDI Audio

Chord Naming Rules

Working with Styles

A Style is the collection of settings that describe how chords and scales will be composed and rendered to image files. This covers things like colors, text fonts, sizes and spacings, string and fret markings, barre chord styles and so on.

FrettyCharts comes with a collection of preset styles which cover a range of common guitar image styles. You can use these as starting points to create your own custom styles.

A FrettyCharts project can have any number of styles. The point is that you can design many different ways to render the images, but only have to create the chord/scale library once in the project.  When you save your project, the styles that you have created will also be saved.

The following figure shows the style area in the application.

Add/Remove Style

The various tabs in the style editor allow you to make changes to the currently selected style. This is indicated below next to "Current Style". Use this drop-down list to change the style being edited. NOTE: You cannot edit a Preset style. However, when you select "Add Style" to create your own custom style, the previously selected style will be copied as the starting point for your new one.

To remove a custom style, press the "Remove Style" button.

Select Style for Edited Item Above

When designing your chord/scale library, it is possible to assign a style to a Group. This is an optional feature which allows you to render your project and use more than one style. All of the items inside that group will be rendered with the selected style.

So when editing a chord or scale in the main editor, it might be handy to see which style is currently assigned for that item. Clicking this button marked "Select style for edited item above", will bring that style up in the style editor.

Import Styles

If you design a really nice style in one project, and wish to use it later on in another project, you can use the import feature to transfer from one project to another. In the new project, go to the "Project" menu and select "Import Styles from Project". Then browse to the project file that contains the styles you want and select this file. The custom styles from that project will then be imported to the current project.