Re: [Denemo-devel] scheme-identifiers.c

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 10:32 +0100, Éloi Rivard wrote:
> Why are those commands here anyway ? I mean, don't you think it would
> be cleaner to keep them all as XML files instead of C code ?

They are primitives that are needed by Denemo's scheme. Initially the
primitives were precisely the set in menu.c, ie built in commands from
the initial writing of Denemo activated by keypress or menu click. This
did not allow for querying, so at first I extended commands like set
initial timesig take a parameter to query the initial timesig.
But then there were things that this was not enough for - e.g. querying
how many notes were in a chord, and so I added the new primitives which
are added as GtkActions to the action group and made callable from
scheme via scheme-callbacks.c and scheme-identifiers.c

A clean-up would obviously be a Good Thing. Is GtkAction like
GtkTextBuffer, something we can use non-interactively (without calling
gtk_init)? We could create all GtkActions by a single mechanism perhaps.
Perhaps it is desirable/possible to get rid of denemoui.xml and instead
create all the menu items via more primitive mechanisms.

I have found where (exit) is called - it is in a definition for the
FinalizeTypetting procedure setup by Arranger.scm, for running
d-CheckScore before printing; I'm looking into fixing it.

Richard



> 
> 
> 2014/1/22 Richard Shann <address@hidden>
>         On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 19:15 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
>         > On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 16:36 +0100, Éloi Rivard wrote:
>         > > Does it mean those strings are still used ?
>         >
>         > I don't know if they are being used - looking again just now
>         I am not
>         > sure how they work: they are the tooltips for commands that
>         are built in
>         > but not in menu.c. I presume they *are* appearing as
>         translated?
>         
>         
>         ok, I think I understand. These commands are generally not
>         (never?)
>         appearing in the menu system, or associated with widgets, they
>         are used
>         in scripting other commands.
>         It would seem to be a good thing if they could be looked-up
>         and searched
>         for like the ones that do appear in the menu system, and at
>         this point
>         the lack of translation of the tooltip would become apparent.
>         But until
>         that is available (and even then it would only help writers of
>         scripts),
>         it would be a bad idea to burden the translators with them.
>         
>         Richard
>         
> 
> 
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