Re: [Denemo-devel] Denemo Modes

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 08:14 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > Note Entry:
> > 1) The current default mode:
> > You press a note name (e.g. "a"), optional octave selectors ("'" or
> > ","), a duration (e.g. "2" for a quarter note), optional accidental
> > shifts ("+", "-") optional dots ("."). Further notes at the same pitch
> > can be entered by pressing the duration and dots.
> 
> Are you suggesting a "hard wired" key-binding for each mode? I
> personally like the speedykeymaprc.xml that uses j for quarter h for
> half not k for eight notes etc ... 
No - I am not proposing hard wired keybindings for anything, indeed I
started out by mentioning that there are some that should be removed. I
gave the examples in brackets just to make it clear what I meant by a
duration, an octave selector etc. So what I am describing is what you do
at present to enter notes in the current default mode (called Insert,
rather than default which is read only :-) and illustrating what I am
saying using some default keybindings that the reader will know of.
I think we should keep the programmable keybindings, though the list is
almost unusably long. Internally I see that someone has put them into
categories, I guess with the idea of presenting them as a hierarchy at
sometime in the future. It would be nice to put them in the menu system
and provide a context option to set a keybinding when you have tracked
the function down. (So insert measure would be somewhere in an
Edit->Insert menu and a right click on it would allow you to set a
keybinding for the function, likewise
Edit->Insert->tuplet->triplet->begin etc).

> 
> 
> > >From this I suggest we make Mode 2 the default mode, and turn on Mode 3
> > when the "insert pitch recognition" is chosen. Mode 1 can be turned on
> > by a denemo->prefs setting.
> > 
> 
> This is for default mode settings. Denemo start up settings right. If so
> that sounds good to me. Otherwise there is no point in the mode menu.
Yes I am saying that Mode 2 is what should be there if you have never
saved any denemo->prefs. I think that we should also put up the toolbars
so that complete beginners can mess about clicking on buttons and
getting something to happen. Experienced users can then turn them off in
their prefs and get down to some serious typing!
> 
> > In the current program there is also something called "default" which
> > seems to be a sort of read-only setting - this seems a very strange name
> > - I stumbled on it by accident and thought that denemo had locked up.
> > This should be developed as a normal read-only thing, with a dialog
> > popping up when you try to edit. 
> 
> Ha Ha. I thought it had frozen up before also. Yeah the name should
> probably be changed to read-only. 
I think this is more than just a name change thing - you normally open
files read only it that is what you want not suddenly make things read
only in the middle of composing/editing. Such things do exist (M-x
toggle-read-only in Emacs, which has a command for making cups of tea as
well) but having such a thing hardwired to a keypress (Esc) is, well,
unfortunate.
Richard