Hello All,
Concerning having a swappable palette of actions.
The good news:
NotationView is in prime shape for that kind of thing -- shortcut wise.
Currently the durations are in a separate menu than the keyboard note insert
actions.
then enable / disable .rc can easily swap the states, sine disabled
(setEnable(false)) will kill the shortcut to the action as well.
So without much more that an action that toggles between the states that is the
easy part.
I believe is we roll the shortcuts into a submenu like we did for the keyboard
note inserting shortcuts then we can just setEnable the menus themselves
instead of all the shortcuts and that will cascade the to the shortcuts, but I
haven't tried it, this is assuming that the only place these actions were
"listed" in in the menu and not on other toolbars.
Somebody with more experience in that area can correct that assumption if I'm
incorrect.
Basically this part of the job requires pulling in the shortcuts, rewriting
them fit our .rc scheme and connecting to the slots. There is modest work
involved in that.
The bad news:
NotationView functions a bit differently than in classic since we are not using
the purple marker. Since most of these shortcuts seem to relate editing, I'm
not certain if all of the slots related to the actions will translate over.
Currently, we have no marker that does what the purple marker did. We ripped
it out in hopes to use the black marker as both a playback indicator and an
place marker.
So until the marker/inserter cursor gets hooked back up and working, it is
difficult to know exactly what some of the slots these actions will trigger.
...
Again, not saying no. Just being real about "when" this should happen.
Now if, someone is ambitious and takes on hooking up the black marker (to act
as the purple marker as well) and getting it working in NotationView, then much
of this becomes trivial--I would think.
My preferences regarding this:
I have a strong preference that we use .rc / FileParser to accomplish this. It
is a little extra overhead, but it rolls everything up quite nicely --
specially when it comes time to change things.
One other preference I have is leaving the number keys alone so step recording
can occur without messing with the toggle.
Open octave site isn't responding at the moment so I can't look at their key
map to see if there are conflicts with that.
...
Well, those are my happy thoughts about that.
Sincerely,
Julie S.
PS -- notation_toolbar_2 branch is coming along nicely, I hope to have it ready
for inspection in short order--assuming I don't hit any snags.
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