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

[Richard Shann]

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>

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