[Denemo-devel] Re: Delete destroys the selection

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:39 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> 1.My last checkin was correct. I checked again and it is just what I added, a 
> oneliner of code, which works, and one line of comments for the visual aspect 
> in denemo.scm. 
> 
sorry, my mistake
> 2.Thank you for d-DeleteSelection. But there is still something wrong and I 
> think different things than you mentioned:
> Sometimes the deletion does not work, it is dependent how the selection was 
> created. Try to:
> a)Select with the mouse, especially from right to left
> b)shift+end 
> There seems to be a "random factor" in this bug, meaning one I cannot 
> reproduce at will. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. The more I try in one 
> session the more it gets broken.
> 
I think I have seen this too,  but I can't find a pattern
> 3. Is deleteSelection supposed to delete the measures, too, or leave empty 
> measure behind? 
> I cannot tell because of the bug mentioned, but I hope it is supposed to 
> delete the measures, too.
> 
it will be whatever d-Cut is but without altering the clipboard.

("will" here does not mean future tense, I just mean that the code of
d-DeleteSelection is the last bit of d-Cut without the copy to clipboard
bit that d-Cut does before deleting the selection.)

Richard



> 
> Nils
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:08:39 +0100
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 13:29 +0200, Nils wrote:
> > > I think it doesn't matter: Choose whatever is easier internally, optional 
> > > d-deleteObject parameter or d-DeleteSelection. 
> > > Well.. just as I write this i like "d-DeleteSelection"
> > I have implemented this.
> > Two things:
> >     There is some strange behavior around selecting empty measures. In some
> > circumstances this seems to "revive" old clipboards, or some such. I
> > haven't investigated, but trying to test d-DeleteSelection lead me to
> > try and remove the contents of the clipboard and I noticed that doing
> > Ctrl-C with no selection visible did not work (?).
> >     Nils last check in seems in error, there is only a commented out proc
> > def and a stub added to denemo.scm (?)
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > >  better.
> > > For the user it makes no difference in the end.
> > > 
> > > Nils
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 14 May 2010 09:10:10 +0100
> > > Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Have I understood you aright? What shall we call the command? Of should
> > > > it just be a parameter to the d-Delete command? (We need a complete set
> > > > of commands sketching out; but as we go on, we get a better idea what
> > > > they would be...)
> > > > 
> > > > Richard
> > > > 
> > > > 
> >