Re: [Denemo-devel] Creating new scripts from old ones.

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:47 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> At the moment to create a new command based on an old script (e.g. to
> create Allegro Assai from the Allegro one), you have to do right-click -
> get script, (edit it) and then the save as new menu item stuff (also on
> on a right click menu).
> It occurs to me that it might be nicer for this sort of derived script
> to edit an actual DenemoDirective and let Denemo write the script for
> you.
> For this the primitive text edit dialog which is invoked if there is no
> editscript could be used - it just needs a button to write the script
> needed to generate the edited directive.
I have checked in code to do this. I have checked in an example with the
guitar fingering script, which now offers "Advanced" as an edit option,
through which you can do the low-level editing. All other editscripts
should now be upgraded to offer this option...

> The advantage is that instead of looking through a scheme script for the
> bits to edit, they are presented in little edit boxes - no chance of
> deleting a "(" by accident, or forgetting to double a backslash.

However, it is only a method of generating a script for the specific
directive you have edited. This makes it good for simple scripts that
just do a single thing. 
For more sophisticated scripts you still need to get the original script
(using the right click on the menu item concerned) and edit that.

Richard