Fading and a few more

1. I would really like to be able to fade between slides and from/to black screen, then the screen won't feel like a pop-up in the same way and it feels more comfortable when you stand/sit in church too.

We'll be including transitions in openlp.org 1.2.

2. To be able to blank screen with background, so I can go back to where I was exactly like blank screen works right now

Click on the button under the live control panel that says, "close with theme background"

3. Somehow be able to mark the chorus (maybe color maybe a star, whatever) so it's easy to find your way back to it. Our musicians never follow any strict pattern, so you can't set up in what order they are gonna play the song.

Verse order, etc. is coming in version 1.2.

4. Be able to choose a verse i the preview section and then when you click the live button (go live with selected song) it will show the verse you choosed in preview.

We're thinking about something like this for version 1.2.

Whatever is not in the current version, that you're looking for, will probably be in version 1.2 when it's released. We don't have any time frames as yet, since this is not a commercial product, we do it in our spare time.

2. To be able to blank screen with background, so I can go back to where I was exactly like blank screen works right now

Click on the button under the live control panel that says, "close with theme background"

Not sure this does what wezzy wants. He said to work like blank screen so to keep the slide position etc. This has been requested before, and so will be added to the feature requests. Note if you are anticipating a "blank" verse, you can add one. See point 2 here

You got it right gushie...

Okay then I know where we are at.

That's why I took the blank screen as example. Yes, I've seen the other buttons, but then you need to click on the song again to get it. It's not a big deal, but it would be nice. Thanks for the tip about the blank page in a song trick.

Besides that I'm translating the program to Swedish right now, is that anything you're interrested in putting on this page when it's done?

I know you don't have any time frames for 1.2 yet, but I'm very curious about what kind of time it could be we're talking about here anyway. around a year...many years...somewhere in between...

 I understand if you can't answer, but I'm just curious about how you look at it.

We'll probably release 1.1.0, the first development version of 1.2, in June or July. There are a lot of changes that need to be made for 1.2, so the first really useful version will probably only be out at the end of the year.

Once again, no guarantees. It depends on how much time we have available. Workloads, sickness, and other things will obviously affect the amount of development we do.

To add to wezzy's request, I would also add to the verse order, fading, and blank screen some keystroke hooks.  The program that my church is currently using allows the operator to use keyboard input to select slides within the current song.  1-9 for numbered verses, C for tagged chorus, + (plus) for tagged bridge, 0 (zero) for blank background, B for blank, and L for logo if the church has one specified.  By marking the slides with an indicator, the projectionist can jump around at will by simply hitting the appropriate number or slide marker.  I sit down with our worship pastor prior to the service and write the keystrokes down in the order that he intends to sing each song.  This also simplifies how the songs are entered since I don't have to have extra repetitive slides to fill out the order of the song.