Runabc.tcl

Runabc is a graphical user interface to several command line driven programs for processing abc files. It is written in Tcl/Tk script and will run on any computer or operating system in which Tcl/Tk is installed. This includes Windows, Unix, Linux and Macintosh. The script now provides graphical user interfaces to abc2abc, abc2midi, abc2ps, abcm2ps and yaps. You also need a midi player and a postscript viewer. If you are running on Windows (95,98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7) or Linux on the i386 you can get many of the executables here and also from the web site The ABC Plus Homepage. For other systems you will probably need to download the sources and compile them yourself. The link below illustrates the operation of this program. The link install.html provides links to web sites where you can get the various components to run the program.

runabc.html describes what this program does. You can also download the Adobe pdf file runabc.pdf which contains the same documentation. (Right click instead of left click and save to a file.)

install.html for instructions on installing runabc.tcl and supporting packages (updated 2011-10-30).

You can download the latest version of runabc.tcl here

runabc.zip		1.737	January 02 2012
runabc.exe		1.737	January 02 2011
runabc.kit		1.737	January 02 2011
Runabc_setup.exe		1.720	October 29 2011

runabc.exe has Tcl/Tk built in for Windows users who do not wish to install Tcl/Tk 8.5 on their system. Runabc.exe was now created using tclkit (http://www.equi4.com/tclkit.html) instead of freewrap (http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/). It is no longer necessary to compact it with winzip. It is ready to run. First save it to your hard drive and then run (no installs).

runabc.kit will run without tcl/tk on almost any system where tclkit has been installed. See install.html for details.

For Windows system, Runabc_setup.exe will install runabc.exe and the abcMIDI executables, and create shortcuts on your start button and Desktop. By default the programs are installed on c:\runabc folder; if you choose to put it in c:\Program Files\ and you are also running Windows 7, then it is necessary to change the permissions of the installed folder to allow write access.

abcMIDI

The latest version is abcMIDI-2012-02-01.zip Feb 01 2012

Older versions can be found in oldversions.html.

Executables for the Microsoft Windows operating systems are also available in the zip file abcmidi_win32.zip. This file was updated on December 11 2011 (includes abcm2ps-5.9.25 executable).

Documentation abc2midi guide .

Sample abc files I made or edited

Other abc file links may be found in The abc Homepage.

Feb 02 2012: more dances added to isra.abc, balk1.abc, balk2.abc and intl.abc.

Jan 29 2012: New version of abc2midi extends %%MIDI chordname to handle chords with as many as 10 notes. New version of AbcMIDI.

Feb 01 2012: makefile.w32 for Visual C++ Express 2010 added.

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