Re:[Denemo-devel] added very basic tranpose staff support

[Richard Shann]

> There is a problem with it though. The display does not update the
> changes. The changes are in memory so when you print you can see the
> changes. If you save a reload the files the changes take into effect.
> Richard do you know of anyway to fix this? I tried running 
> displayhelper(gui) but that did not seem to fix it.
The short answer is no, every time I get near this beast I have to hack away
to get the display to work; displayhelper() is just the start, there are all 
sorts of
cached calculations about how to lay out things, and there is (as I recall) 
even one
call to a function that occurs only in response to the expose event of the 
scorearea - I
recall having to dig that out and call it for something I wanted the display to 
update.
But while we are hacking at the display routines, bear in mind that gtk does 
not mind if you
draw off the edge of the viewable area, so we should take advantage of this to 
display 
one more measure than at present. I say this, because I noticed recently that 
if you have a short
measure followed by a very long one (e.g. lots of 64th notes) it will often 
only show the first
measure, making you think there is something wrong. It would be better to show 
part of the next measure
to fill out the available space, rather than creating the illusion that what 
you see is the last
measure so far written.
Having said all that:
At the moment I have just got my system re-installed, and in the process have 
lost
my ssh access to the git (sigh!) so I won't be able to build what you have done
until Savannah updates my newly uploaded key. (Well, I could get Denemo via 
anonymous thingy,
but I am also near my download limit for the month, having downloaded Debian 
twice, trying first
to dist-upgrade and finally re-installing). At the moment, I don't even have 
gcc, never mind bison, flex
libaubio and who knows what.
So have patience!

Richard