Re: [Denemo-devel] added excerpt and export export to png support

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 09:15 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 10:30 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > This is an excellent addition - thanks. Your use of a LilyControl field
> > called excerpt is astute - 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > we should put the other parameters to the
> > print command in there - the start, end, all, as they are all control
> > for the print command.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > About a dialog to select the excerpt - I suggest using the selection:
> > you drag the mouse over the music you want to excerpt and hit Print
> > Excerpt and you have a png! I suspect it is trivial to do - shall I look
> > at it?
> 
> Sure. 
> You already did something similar with the playback thing.
I'll get on to it - my other stuff is awaiting Jean-Rene``s keypress
work.

>  I
> suggest after the user selects a range with the mouse, a pop up dialog
> then appears that has a range selection in it similar to what we have in
> playback properties. This way if the user doesn't select with the mouse
> first then they don't get confused. I can do the pop-up dialog if you do
> the mouse selection stuff.  
The dialog should only pop up if there is no selection - I'll email you
the boolean concerned.
Richard