Dear monks, I'm setting up a Linux-based home karaoke system to help my flatmates celebrate finishing medical school.

Timidity (a software midi synthesizer for linux) does a great job of playing midi-format karaoke files, but it its lyric display leaves a lot to be desired, and I've not managed to find any gui that can do the job either. So, I'd like to write a Perl program to display them.

Reading the lyrics from the midi file is easy, using MIDI::Event, but how best to display them?

The requirements are simple. I need to:

1. Open a big window
2. Draw a background image on it
3. Draw some text on top of that and update it every so often

I've got no experience at all using graphics with Perl, so can anybody point me in the right direction?

Many thanks,

mj

In reply to Which Perl modules to use to display karaoke lyrics? by Anonymous Monk

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