Re: [Denemo-devel] Palettes

[Bric]

On 10/13/2013 12:27 PM, Richard Shann wrote:

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> This design of palettes thing is a one-off activity, so I don't think it
> is worth programming. You can assemble exactly the buttons you want in
> the places you want them. Es ist genug. (Well, we could have buttons to
> the right and buttons to the left ... that would be nice for people who
> use buttons).

Well... for the sake of not wasting screen space, where empty space 
above the working area is displacing your music, making you sacrifice 
viewability of a whole staff or even two... then, at some point, might 
be worth tweaking.

> I guess you have added Cut & Paste buttons to your own general palette
> now? I am not sure I want to promote them until they have been debugged.
> Come the next version you will want to move
> your .denemo-1.0.9/actions/palettes.xml file into the
> new .denemo-xxx/actions directory.
>
> BTW, Can you confirm that turning off the cursor highlighting doesn't
> speed anything up? I am interested in the speed of operation thing,
> which I can't easily test myself. It might be useful to turn off the
> Undo/Redo to see if that affects it. In ancient versions there was a lot
> of recalculating the positions of things in the bar, so, if anything
> modern versions should be quicker.

Oh my god! Y-y-yes!  You betcha, it speeds things up (why haven't i done 
this sooner?)

The easy test for me is going back and forth between [Home] and [End] 
positions.  Also, cursoring forward/back with "Ctrl+[Left/Right]"  With 
the cursor animated ("highlighted"), I wait several seconds with these 
operations, with the staff scrolling sideways in front of me.  With the 
cursor highlighting turned off, the (non!)scrolling is instant! I love 
it! (it's truly a relief... apologies to the animators... it's a clever 
and beautiful idea but it's been slowing me down, at least on this 
system — Intel(R) Core 2 Duo CPU T5800  @ 2.00GHz, Ubuntu Maverick)