Re: [Denemo-devel] Beginner questions (cross-staff, PNG selection export, feathered beams, batch export, Print View behaviour)

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2019-08-12 at 21:04 +0200, Lib Lists wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 18:13, Richard Shann <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2019-08-12 at 16:18 +0200, Lib Lists wrote:
> > > Hi Richard, and thank you for your quick reply!
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 15:52, Richard Shann <address@hidden.
> > > com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2019-08-12 at 14:21 +0200, Lib Lists wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > new Denemo user here, coming back to Lilypond through Denemo
> > > > > after
> > > > > many years. It is really a pleasure to do note entry in a
> > > > > visual
> > > > > editor, thank you for your efforts in developing Denemo!
> > > > > 
> > > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 2. When I select Export as -> Export selection as PNG, I get
> > > > > a
> > > > > message that my file has been created, but I cannot find it
> > > > > in
> > > > > the
> > > > > file system.
> > > > 
> > > > You have to set your preference for a Image Viewer program to
> > > > something
> > > > you have in your path to view the png with. The message is
> > > > misleading -
> > > > as the help for the command says
> > > > 
> > > > Command: Export Selection as PNG
> > > > Displays a musical excerpt in your image viewer
> > > > Location: Main Menu ▶ File ▶ Export As
> > > > Internal Name: PrintExcerptPreview
> > > > 
> > > > so you have to have the Image Viewer in Edit->Change
> > > > Preferences-
> > > > > Externals=>Image Viewer
> > > > 
> > > > set to some program actually installed on your system.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I forgot to mention that I have already tried with Preview, Mac
> > > os
> > > default image viewer
> > > (/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview) without
> > > success.
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't have access to any Mac to test that. I just tested
> > giving
> > the full path to the executable (ie what you get when you do
> > 
> > which Preview
> > 
> > at a terminal, and that worked (this is Debian - I don't know what
> > Mac
> > O/S 10.13.6, but I presume it has a Linux kernel and Unix tools?)
> > If you execute
> > 
> > Preview somefile.png
> > 
> > in a terminal does it work? That is, does it take a filename on the
> > command line?
> 
> Hi, writing in a terminal '/PATH/TO/Preview somefile.png' doesn't
> work. However, 'open -a  /PATH/TO/Preview somefile.png' works as well
> as 'open somefile.png'.

In that case you may be able to set the Image Viewer field to
"open"
without the quotes
and it may work. (I'm hoping there is an executable named "open" that
takes a filename as a parameter and decides what to do with it)

> [...]
> > 
> > > > inserting it where?
> > > 
> > > For example in the pop-up Note/Rests->Markings->Chord Symbols-
> > > >Edit
> > > Chord Symbols.
> > > The same behaviour happens after adding text in other (any?) pop-
> > > up
> > > dialogs
> > > and pressing OK or cancel (for example after inserting a title,
> > > adding
> > > a chord name, etc.).
> > 
> > Hmm, that's what I thought you might mean - it doesn't happen for
> > me on
> > Denemo 2.3 and I just tried Denemo 2.2 on Windows and it doesn't
> > happen
> > there. I guess a workaround would be to dismiss the Print View
> > altogether and only bring it back when you have finished?
> 
> Unfortunately it doesn't work. If I close the Print View (I also
> switched to Manual Updates, just in case), it returns after
> interacting with a pop-up dialog.

How did you try to close it? The only way that will surely work is to
use the View menu - anything else depends on the what the window
manager decides to do - in this case it seems it is iconizing the
window.

HTH Richard