Re: Add-chord-note bug; and, problem with focus of warning dialog

[Wade McReynolds]

Pressing Alt+{lower-case letter name} gives the message "Alt-x is not a 
shortcut." Looking at the Command Center I see that the Add{X} commands have 
capital letters. I haven't done anything to change them.

I am on version 2.4.5.

> On Feb 3, 2021, at 1:31 AM, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 13:51 -0800, Wade McReynolds wrote:
>> Sorry, that was a typo; the iPad keyboard I was using seems to have
>> capitalized the letter automatically. I just checked and confirmed
>> that the default shortcuts ALT+lower-case letter do not add any
>> notes, at least not on my machine.
> If it doesn't insert a note what does it do? You can find out by
> pressing the key combination and then looking on the left hand side of
> the status bar - it gives the name of the command you just executed. If
> it is not a shortcut for any command then pressing it a second time
> will bring up the advisory dialog telling you so. Does that happen?
> 
>> And the shortcut dialog does show that I'm using lower case, not
>> upper. (I'm not as inept with my laptop's keyboard as with my
>> iPad's.) Oddly, after trying ALT+capital-letter I found that those
>> key combinations do add notes to make a chord, including "F," "C,"
>> etc.
> So do you have the "menu navigation by keyboard" off or on?
> And what shortcut is listed against those commands (e.g. in the Command
> Center - see attached screenshot which shows my setting, which is, I
> think, the default).
> (And, just to check you have version 2.4.5? There were fixes for MacOS
> a while back).
> 
> Richard
> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 2, 2021, at 2:59 AM, Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 13:48 -0800, Wade McReynolds wrote:
>>>> I'm not able to add chord notes in Denemo using the Alt+{note} 
>>> 
>>> The default shortcut is Alt+(lowercase note), e.g. Alt-a
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> keyboard shortcut (current repo version + Ubuntu Linux). Pressing
>>>> some key combinations gives an error message (e.g., "Alt-A
>>>> is not a shortcut")
>>> 
>>> In which case you could assign it by pressing Alt-A while you have
>>> the
>>> command highlighted in the menu. It would mean pressing Alt, Shift
>>> and
>>> the key labelled "A" (on most keyboards), or having the CapsLock
>>> set
>>> and pressing Alt and the key labelled "A".
>>> 
>>>> ; pressing Alt+F gives me the File dropdown menu.
>>> 
>>> This happens if you have the preference set for invoking menus from
>>> the
>>> keyboard see "Menu Navigation by Keyboard" in the preferences (see
>>> attached).
>>> 
>>> Having said all that, various O/Ses intercept certain keypresses
>>> before
>>> they reach Denemo to do desktop operations - I just accidentally
>>> hit
>>> one while typing this and got a screenshot ready to print - so you
>>> may
>>> always have to change the shortcuts for your machine, or tell your
>>> O/S
>>> how you want it to behave (assuming it is listening to you!)
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Also, it would be nice if, after using the Check Note Pitches
>>>> feature, the dialog reading "Finished" would be given focus, so
>>>> that
>>>> I can hit Enter to dismiss it rather than switch to the mouse. (I
>>>> haven't tested this one using the latest version of Denemo, BTW.)
>>> 
>>> I just tried this out - the focus is on the dialog in the current
>>> version when finishing the piece or after re-invoking the command
>>> to
>>> force it to stop.
>>> 
>>> Richard
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <Screenshot at 2021-02-02 10-48-35.png>
> <Screenshot at 2021-02-03 09-25-36.png>