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. 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.
> On Feb 2, 2021, at 2:59 AM, Richard Shann <rich...@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>
