Re: [Denemo-devel] Localization

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 18:24 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 19/04/2010 alle 13.06 +0100, Richard Shann ha scritto:
> > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 12:47 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > > Indeed, I was referring to "No mode". But I seem to understand my
> > > "total
> > > neutrality" point is somewhat premature.
> > 
> > This bit I didn't understand (sorry). 
> 
> I was just pointing the fact that you can't rebind those basic keys
> without leaving "No mode", but you anyway answered completely in the
> following.
> 
> Pietro
> 
> 
> > But the bottom line is that there exists both non modal commands
> > d-InsertD, d-ChangeToD,
> > and a modal command d-D
> > 
> > The modal d-D does either d-InsertD or d-ChangeToD or moves the cursor
> > to the nearest D depending on mode. I am not sure if there is a
> > non-modal command for this last action. (hmm).
There were no such commands, so I have added them
d-MoveToA
B,C... moves the cursor to the note position of that name. I have put
them in the Navigation Menu under Move to Note, they should also be
under the note menu...
I think all that remains to be done now to make the default Denemo
non-modal is to put all these commands into a single Notes/Rests menu
and stop changing that menu on mode switch. Then setting default
shortcuts to the non-modal commands completes things from the user
perspective. (The fact that, under the bonnet, this is all done by mode
switching is another story).
How about

'a' Inserts note A
'A' edits note at cursor to be A (really Shift-a)
Alt-A moves the cursor to the note position A

Can someone play around with this and report back. I use a MIDI keyboard
for entering notes, so I don't get to try it out for real...

Richard



> > 
> > Switching the menus depending on mode is logical but too clever by half.
> > I think it should go; the downside is the menu labels will be more
> > verbose and bits of the notes/rests menu will have to refer to the mode
> > system - that is we will need a special Modal submenu. But if we default
> > to a non-modal Denemo, that won't matter, the main shortcuts (A-G 0-7)
> > will be visible, which at the moment, defaulting to No Mode, they are
> > not (how this came about I don't know, I thought default was Insert
> > Mode).
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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