Re: [Denemo-devel] Custom buttons.

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:00 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> Now you can place any command on the button bar (currently this is the
> Titles/Controls etc in View menu), using a command on the right-click
> menu.
> The buttons remain there when you 
when you re-start, I should have said.
Also, I have in mind that they could be used to display the shortcuts
(as a reminder) or an icon (for those that like icons)

Richard


> permanently.
> To remove one you have to edit ~/.denemo/actions/denemo.scm (deleting it
> if you want to remove them all).
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:11 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > You can now arrange to have commands of your choice on a button bar at
> > the top of the score automatically loaded at startup and at file load
> > time.
> > There is no real user interface to this yet, but, as an example, if you
> > put the following scheme into ~/.denemo/actions/denemo.scm
> > then you will get a Score Size button, to control the output font of the
> > score when printed. It permanently tells you what the size of the score
> > font will be and allows you to change it at the click of a mouse.
> > I have in mind being able to drag any menu item off onto the button bar
> > and get a button for the item, re-instated every time you start Denemo.
> > This is only a little way off. The script I have made is a bit fancier
> > than just the menu command repeated on the button bar - it displays the
> > current font size as well. Perhaps the menu command could do that?
> > 
> > I was prompted to do this work because Score Size is one of my most
> > frequently used commands at print time, and every time I would do
> > Edit->Score Properties->Paper->Font Size, so I thought I should fix
> > this. When I looked, I found I had already "fixed" it, giving a menu
> > command Score->(Print)Set Overall Score Size, which I had then forgotten
> > about. And as it is buried with all the other things I never use, I had
> > reverted to old habits, using the convoluted sequence that used to be
> > the only way to change the output font size. I could delete all the
> > commands I never use, but then I would have to maintain a separate
> > Default.cmdset, slowing down development, so I try to use the command
> > sets in the distribution. Of course, I can give this command a keyboard
> > shortcut, but unless I can have a place for my most used commands, I
> > will forget again, hence the new facility.
> > 
> > Richard 
> > - script follows:
> > 
> >  ;;;Create a Score Size button
> > (define SetScoreSize::Size  (d-ScoreProperties "query=fontsize"))
> > (define (SetScoreSize::Set)
> >   (begin
> >     (d-SetFontSize) 
> >     (set! SetScoreSize::Size (d-ScoreProperties "query=fontsize"))
> >     (if (string? SetScoreSize::Size)
> >      (d-DirectivePut-score-display "SetScoreSize::Set"  (string-append
> > "Font Size:" SetScoreSize::Size)))))
> > 
> > (CreateButton "SetScoreSize::Set" (string-append "<span font_desc=\"12
> > \">Score Font: " SetScoreSize::Size "</span>"))
> > 
> > (d-SetDirectiveTagActionScript "SetScoreSize::Set"
> > "(SetScoreSize::Set)")
> > 
> > ;;;;;;;;;;;; end script
> > 
> > 
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