Re: Denemo on Mac OS X 10.15.4

[Richard Shann]

Thinking about it, it might be best to test an external USB keyboard
first - I say this because I have a old windows laptop which I use for
testing Denemo and a year ago it developed a fault: the built-in
keyboard started emitting an alternate set of key codes - nothing to do
with Denemo - and I can't find out how to restore it. But an external
keyboard works fine.
Note that external key pads are not as good for Denemo (nor as cheap!)
as external keyboards with key pad, they have a key which issues
multiple 0's at one press (for filling in prices) which is unhelpful...

Richard

On Sun, 2020-06-14 at 10:11 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 15:19 -0500, David Richmond wrote:
> > Thanks, Richard.
> > 
> > Here’s a dumb one: the manual says shift plus the number keys (or
> > numpad, but I don’t have one yet) will change the duration of an
> > entered note. That didn’t work on my Mac, except that shift + 2
> > (shift + @) registered 
> 
> I take it "registered" here means that the Command Center gave the
> shortcut name as Shft+2 (these names are munged by Denemo from names
> that are made up by the Gtk library).
> 
> > as shift + 0 to change to a whole note.
> > 
> > I got the described behavior by setting (new) shortcuts from the
> > Command Center, but 3 through 0 all registered not as shift +
> > [number] but shift + [character] e.g. shift + #, $, %, etc. except
> > that shift + 1 registers as shift + 9 and shift + 2 is shift + 0.
> 
> If you can set all the shortcuts to the names that are used on the
> Mac
> (and delete the shortcuts with unusable names) and send me the
> ~/.denemo-2.4.0/actions/DefaultShortcuts.xml (after "Save as Default
> Command Set") then I could make that the default for the Mac build.
> > 
> > Can’t explain it.
> 
> It is strange - I guess that the Mac has its own mappings for the
> hardware keycodes.
> If you can get hold of a standard USB keyboard to test it would be
> good
> to check that the Numpad is working - these are different hardware
> keycodes which Denemo munges to make them behave as durations plus
> things like triplet, dotted rhythm, tie etc. without cluttering up
> the
> menu items with extra shortcut names (so shift + KP_0 is munged to
> behave as shift + 0 and both of these are named as Shft+0 in blue on
> the menu item).
> 
> Thanks for the feedback,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> > David
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:33 AM Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus
> > .c
> > om> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 21:54 -0500, David Richmond wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >  
> > > > Just wanted to let everyone know that I have successfully
> > > 
> > > compiled
> > > > and run Denemo 2.4.0 on Mac OS X 10.15.4 based on a MacPorts
> > > > distribution of its dependencies. (I only had to update evince
> > > > to
> > > 
> > > a
> > > > more recent upstream version, 3.35.92, because the earlier
> > > 
> > > version of
> > > > evince would not compile.)
> > > 
> > > That's great news - thank you!
> > > 
> > > >  
> > > > I'm looking forward to learning to use the program.
> > > 
> > > If you are not already familiar with the program then there would
> > > be a
> > > small possibility that, although building, the program may not
> > > run
> > > as
> > > intended in every respect - please raise any questions here, and
> > > include a screenshot of anything that seems problematic (in case
> > > of
> > > fonts problems etc).
> > > 
> > > >   Later, I'm hoping I can get far enough to push a Denemo
> > > > package
> > > 
> > > to
> > > > MacPorts and maybe even pull together a binary Mac installer
> > > 
> > > package.
> > > 
> > > There have been several requests for these so they would be most
> > > welcome.
> > > 
> > > Richard
> > > 
> > > 
> 
>