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Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments
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Richard Shann |
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Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments. |
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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:21:36 +0100 |
I've just taken one serious and one major bug out of the d-Cut code. The
Adjust Barlines command (ReBar) can even be used - although you have to
keep doing it until any irregularities in the barring have been moved to
the end. We should really have something built-in for this...
Richard
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:56 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 20:48 +0200, Nils wrote:
> > The new Selection and Copy&Paste is really a great addition to current
> > Denemo and I think many people, including me, will like it and consider
> > Denemo more "robust and stable" after seeing this.
> >
> > A few issues and comments:
> >
> > 1) Mulitstaff Copy adds a new empty measure in the end of each staff. This
> > is one too much :)
> fixed.
> >
> > 2) Pasting more than one measure (Multi- or single staff selection does not
> > matter) into an empty measure does not fill the empty measure but leaves
> > it empty and creates new ones behind it. Shouldn't it fill the empty
> > measure first?
> >
> ? well it does now; note if you are pasting into an empty measure, then
> ensure you have enough empty measures for what you are pasting (unless
> you want overfull measures)
> > 3) Dragging / Seclecting is to sensible
> (that's French! sensitive in English :-)
>
> > here. If I click normally fast but move around fast I end in suddenly
> > select a note. How is dragging handled? If its in Denemo maybe adding a
> > quarter or half of a millisecond delay would feel better
>
> That might be possible - the function scorearea_motion_event is firing off
> for small movements, it might be possible to do something in there.
> But I am not sure. You can use the window manager to slow down your mouse. In
> fact I think on windows you can ask the window manager to slow down the
> mouse...but I don't think we want to go there.
>
>
> > 4) "Delete" on a Selection does not work. Cut does, but it unfortunatly
> > copies, too :) (And there is still Backspace. Don't know about it)
> There is no RemoveSelection function. Could be scripted.
>
> >
> > 5) Pasting a part or whole measure, but not more than one!, in the
> > beginning of the staff or another measure
> > does not create a new one but create a measure with over-length. I don't
> > see a problem here, but I want to make sure this is a design choice and not
> > an accident.
> >
>
> yes - I think that is ok behavior.
>
> > 6) I like it that multi-staff selection can only select whole measures and
> > not parts. Makes the handling more stable!
> >
> > 7) Selecting with the (Computer-)Keyboard. When a selection is active
> > moving the cursor around (left, right, end...) currently does not deselect.
> > A normal text-editor behaviour would be to deselect unless you hold the
> > shift-key. In my eyes its a good thing to follow this rule.
> >
> I disagree, I use Esc to deselect, and the arrow keys to extend selections
> off the screen (where you can't drag).
> In fact you can use any navigation keys to extend the selection, and some of
> these will be shift- ones. I wouldn't want shift
> hardwired to mean something... It is a really nice feature!
>
> Richard
>
>
> >
> > Nils
> >
> >
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- [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments., Nils, 2009/10/05
- Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments., Richard Shann, 2009/10/06
- Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments.,
Richard Shann <=
- Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments., Nils, 2009/10/07
- Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments., Richard Shann, 2009/10/07
- Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments., Nils, 2009/10/09
- Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments., Richard Shann, 2009/10/14