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

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 13:00 -0800, Wade McReynolds wrote:
> 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.
Ah, yes. Looking at the history of the shortcuts I see this:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=denemo.git;a=commit;h=6b78721e8f48a63db35cbbc984820ba91d167bfe

which shows that I changed the default to upper case letters so that it
didn't conflict with menu navigation by keyboard, which was newly (re-
)introduced.
I haven't changed my personal set of shortcuts to match because I don't
use those commands anyway, so I haven't noticed the change.

So, as you are using the default shortcuts, are you able to insert
notes in chords using the alt and shift keys (with caps lock off) held
down and the note-letter a-g ? If not, there is a problem.

If you can, but would prefer not to have to hold down the shift key as
well as the alt key then you can change the shortcuts to allow that,
but you will need to turn off menu navigation by keyboard in the
preferences.

Sorry for the confusion, I didn't check if my shortcuts differed from
the default in that respect as they aren't shortcuts I use so I wasn't
expecting it, and my effective memory doesn't extend back as far as
last October :(

Richard




> 
> 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>