Re: [Denemo-devel] Selections, Copy, Cut and Paste - Bugs and Comments.

[Richard Shann]

I've just taken one serious and one major bug out of the d-Cut code. The
Adjust Barlines command (ReBar) can even be used - although you have to
keep doing it until any irregularities in the barring have been moved to
the end. We should really have something built-in for this...
Richard



On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:56 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 20:48 +0200, Nils wrote: 
> > The new Selection and Copy&Paste is really a great addition to current 
> > Denemo and I think many people, including me, will like it and consider 
> > Denemo more "robust and stable" after seeing this. 
> > 
> > A few issues and comments:
> > 
> > 1) Mulitstaff Copy adds a new empty measure in the end of each staff. This 
> > is one too much :)
> fixed. 
> > 
> > 2) Pasting more than one measure (Multi- or single staff selection does not 
> > matter)  into an empty measure  does not fill the empty measure but leaves 
> > it empty and creates new ones behind it. Shouldn't it fill the empty 
> > measure first?
> > 
> ? well it does now; note if you are pasting into an empty measure, then
> ensure you have enough empty measures for what you are pasting (unless
> you want overfull measures)
> > 3) Dragging / Seclecting is to sensible
> (that's French! sensitive in English :-)
> 
> >  here. If I click normally fast but move around fast I end in suddenly 
> > select a note. How is dragging handled? If its in Denemo maybe adding a 
> > quarter or half of a millisecond delay would feel better
> 
> That might be possible - the function scorearea_motion_event is firing off 
> for small movements, it might be possible to do something in there.
> But I am not sure. You can use the window manager to slow down your mouse. In 
> fact I think on windows you can ask the window manager to slow down the 
> mouse...but I don't think we want to go there.
> 
> 
> > 4) "Delete" on a Selection does not work. Cut does, but it unfortunatly 
> > copies, too :) (And there is still Backspace. Don't know about it)
> There is no RemoveSelection function. Could be scripted.
> 
> > 
> > 5) Pasting a part or whole measure, but not more than one!, in the 
> > beginning  of the staff or another measure
> >  does not create a new one but create a measure with over-length. I don't 
> > see a problem here, but I want to make sure this is a design choice and not 
> > an accident.
> > 
> 
> yes - I think that is ok behavior.
> 
> > 6) I like it that multi-staff selection can only select whole measures and 
> > not parts. Makes the handling more stable!
> > 
> > 7) Selecting with the (Computer-)Keyboard. When a selection is active 
> > moving the cursor around (left, right, end...) currently does not deselect.
> > A normal text-editor behaviour would be to deselect unless you hold the 
> > shift-key. In my eyes its a good thing to follow this rule.
> > 
> I disagree, I use Esc to deselect, and the arrow keys to extend selections 
> off the screen (where you can't drag). 
> In fact you can use any navigation keys to extend the selection, and some of 
> these will be shift- ones. I wouldn't want shift
> hardwired to mean something... It is a really nice feature!
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> > 
> > Nils
> > 
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