Re: [Denemo-devel] more miscellania

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 04:58 -0400, Bric wrote:
> (1) note insertion at cursor: sometimes I can't insert between notes.  I 
> arrow right or left, and the cursor lands on one note or another; and 
> then when I type my "a", "b", "c", denemo ALTERS the existing note, (the 
> one I'm cursored on), instead of inserting a new one, and I can't seem 
> to find a way to insert in between!!

lower case "a" changes the note at the cursor to A, Shift-A, Shift-A (or
a,a with caps lock on) inserts the note A in the current duration. You
can see the shortcuts set on the relevant menu. (So for inserting a note
look in the menu Notes/Rests->Note Insertion). If you are not using a
MIDI keyboard then you can insert using a duration key, which is a
single key stroke.


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> (2) undo:  sometimes "undo" simply fails (and throws me into a big 
> panic).  I can, for example, accidentally change a duration, or insert 
> an unwanted note or directive, then try to "undo", and denemo PARTIALLY 
> undoes a few steps, and then ignores my big nasty problem, by-passing it 
> in its undo steps(!)
Yes, Undo is buggy (sorry) ... if you create a completely reproducible
example it is worth creating a bug report for it. (Completely
reproducible means starting with File->New and then xx, yy, zz,...,
Undo. Or some such thing). (The problem is, I virtually never use Undo,
so I never get to know of simple cases where it doesn't work).

> 
> (3) scrolling:  scrolling is frantic sometimes and imposing.  Maybe 
> that's, again, linux-specific. 
Not at all, GNU/Linux is the only system that gets tested a lot. Its the
only version I use.

>  The animation effects might work 
> flawlessly in windows, on certain systems, but for my gtk2 and old 
> Ubuntu it's a pain in the ***; i think they're definitely slowing things 
> down for me BIG TIME.
this is not likely, the animation effect is not synchronous, it only
affects the drawing when the drawing is done, which is when there is a
lull in activity. And then it only changes what is drawn. It simply
aborts and starts again if you move the cursor during the period when it
would be active.
I just looked and I don't see a pref for turning it off :(

>    And when I arrow forward,
Do you mean the right arrow keypress, assigned to MoveCursorRight? Are
you holding it down (thereby triggering the key repeat feature). I can
imagine that giving trouble. I think something would have to be done to
stop Denemo re-drawing when a large number of keypresses are coming in.
Try Ctrl-right arrow to move a bar at a time.

>  wishing to progress 
> just a couple of bars, denemo scrolls forward too much, and then 
> sometimes it does it on its own;
that is your repeat key thing I guess - you have piled up a queue of
right arrow keypresses that 
>  then I've got to scroll back, and 
> that's very sluggish... yada-yada. Can I at least turn off cursor zoom 
> animation? I haven't understood how.
> 
> (4) tool tips.  I've learned how to "cope" with them... but why should I 
> have to (?)  they seriously get in the way; where can I turn them off? I 
> see "Turn on all tooltips" in "Preferences", command behavior,
that is to turn on the really newbie ones that people will not want once
they have got going.

>  and I 
> have that UNchecked, but they still won't go away!

Look further down the same tab,  set the tooltip timeouts to some large
values.

Richard

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