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 <rich...@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 <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
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