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

[Joe Wilkinson]

Hi Richard
Using the Windows development version of 2 Feb (and going back into 
December) Alt-lower case-letter adds notes to chords
Alt-f failed because Alt-f,Alt-f was used for "find" so I temporarily 
used Alt-e,f (!) but I have now disabled the other use of Alt-f and 
chords are back to previously
Alt-F is curiously the only combination of letters that adds a note to a 
chord!
(Using Shift-Alt-f is more than my left hand can cope with!)
Best wishes
Joe
PS I have a problem with palettes but will put it in another post!

On 05/02/2021 09:19, Richard Shann wrote:
> 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>