Re: [Denemo-devel] Moving without altering the selection

[Nils]

I currently rework the keymap and change some scripts which could do harm to a 
selection or select to much.

I noticed there are no new commands for up and down. But on a second thought 
this seems to be ok.
But "Go To End" and "Go To Beginning" are really missing, which are primitives. 
Please add them, too. Derived commands like "seek for next empty measure" will 
be adjusted by me.

New cursor movement system is:
-Normal cursor-movement does not affect the selection at all. If there is a 
selection it stays as it is.

-Any normal cursor key is doubled with a version that modifies the selection, 
our "old" commands d-CursorRight and such. These are now used if you hold the 
shift key. In reality these are two different commands but the user gets the 
impression of toggling with the shift key.

-Mouse is not affected at all, it already worked like it should (except being 
to fast to create a selection, which is known)

-One problem remains: If there is no selection and you use the selection-cursor 
(for example shift+right) no selection will be created. I say: Lets do it. The 
normal GTK/QT/WIN user expects this to happen. This is the same as moving the 
mouse or moving the mouse with LeftButton pressed.

I see no problem to let the normal d-CursorLeft and other cursor commands 
create a selection if there is none because they are now exclusive in use for 
altering the selection thus they can create it on their own.

I know there might be user scripts which rely on normal cursor movement but 
lets do it until its "too late". Once this is settled we have the selection 
ready once and for all and it will not get in your way and on your nerves like 
it did before. I will make sure that no Denemo delievered command will be 
broken if d-Cursor or d-StaffUp d-GoToEnd etc. creates a selection.


Nils
P.S. Commands which use the selection, if there, are now toggable by the new 
Denemo Pref "Apply to Selection".





On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:44:50 +0000
Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have (I hope) finished adding commands that move the denemo cursor
> without changing the selection. This means new Staff up/down and voice
> up down commands, to home, to end. (I haven't looked at the navigation
> dialog but that is not scriptable I don't suppose).
> I have been thinking about the playback cursor. I think it should be
> stored as a time (in (milli)seconds from start of the movement). It then
> keeps its meaning even if the movement is edited. So it may then refer
> then to a different note, or to nothing at all.
> 
> Richard
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