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23/6/2026

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This is the door handle the previous blog post was talking about. There remain a few more bells and whistles to add to it, like favourites and a directory navigation dropdown, but this perfectly boring dialog handles a lot of complexity under the hood, so the user doesn't have to.

Oh, and the .ooloi files are empty – I haven't secretly imported huge scores without telling anyone. No, that happens after the Piece Window, up next, and after the first version of the MusicXML Import plugin, the first canonical one, is implemented. Then the engine will be bombarded with large amounts of musical data, to drive the implementation of real-world engraving.
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Magnus Johansson
23/6/2026 17:43:42

Thanks for the update. Does this window correspond to what is reached in Igor Engraver's Piece Window via the menu File -> Open?

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Peter Bengtson
23/6/2026 20:08:00

Yes, that's the equivalent of File → Open. But it's worth marking where the resemblance stops, because the dialog hides a different machine underneath.

In Igor that command opened a file from disk. Here the dialog never asks the disk anything. It asks the engine 'what's here?' and draws the answer, which on your own laptop happens to look like your files but on a connected backend is your slice of a shared graph of pieces. Same gesture, different world: the previous post was about exactly that.

There'll be a demonstration before long of how this dialog behaves once you're connected to another desktop Ooloi or an Ooloi server, where 'what's here?' stops meaning your disk and starts meaning your share of someone else's. That's where the difference becomes visible rather than just architectural.

So: same door handle, different building.

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Magnus Johansson
23/6/2026 20:32:20

OK, will some distinction be made between documents that are to be found on my computer and those that are available on another Ooloi if my computer is connected to it?

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Peter Bengtson
24/6/2026 07:42:31

Yes. Either you’re working with your own files, as in any other program; or you make a conscious decision to connect to another Ooloi, and then you see only the pieces that Ooloi lets you reach, none of your own private ones. And when you’re connected, you get that pulsing indicator from the earlier post.

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Magnus Johansson
24/6/2026 10:07:20

OK; looking forward to try this out.

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