Re: scheme shamble, was custom keymap

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2020-09-04 at 06:40 -0400, aaron mehl wrote:
> Hi again,
> I really like the idea of using scheme to make hard coded
> keybindings. But either through my lack of experience or maybe
> technical issues I am getting nowhere quickly.
> The first problem I have is the interface to scheme using input to pc
> keyboard is cumbersome and annoying.
> Second I managed to get it to freeze up where the scheme window would
> not accept any input from my keyboard.
> third I don't see instructions on how to build a scheme script from
> start to finish.
> fourth I see that I am able to put some menu items in the scheme
> window and others not.

That is because some menu items are not scripted, they are built in to
the executable program (i.e. written in C and compiled with the
program).

>  Note entry I guess is only in input>pc keyboard menu. This is most
> confusing.
> When I create a new script called "HardcodeE" I see an option to
> create a button, then a palette, but no option to add it to a menu. 

Yes, it would require a way of choosing where in the menu system to
place the new item. Instead you can put your Scheme script into a
command in the menu system by right-clicking a command in the menu
system and choosing "Save Script as New Menu Item" which will insert
the script in that menu after the menu item you clicked on.

> Also how do I open it in the command center so I can assign a
> shortcut to it that way?
Once it is in the menu system you can set a shortcut as usual.

> I think I need a way in each script to have it do the required action
> and to assign the shortcut to it,

I think you are muddling up two separate things. One is the commands
themselves which you want to create in the menu system (somewhere under
the Notes/Rests menu) and the other is a command to set all the
shortcuts for that set of menu items - that command I imagine you would
put in the Input->PC keyboard menu.

>  but I would need either examples from existing commands or a step by
> step help file.
> Also I made custom note value keybinding which I initialized by
> pressing "rr" I would also like to add the note name keybindings to
> that same "mode"
yes, you would put all your keybinding statements one after the other
in the script that you use to set that "mode". So your command to turn
on the mode would look like this:

(d-AddKeybinding xxx yyy)
(d-AddKeybinding xxx1 yyy1)
(d-AddKeybinding xxx2 yyy2)
...

Then executing this command (which you will assign some shortcut to
(*)) will switch mode for you.

Richard
(*) actually you could be cunning and set a shortcut for the switch-
mode command at the end of your shortcuts for the switch-back-to-
normal-mode command and the same shortcut at the end of the switch-mode 
shortcuts script. In that way with a single shortcut you would toggle
between your modes. It would save having to have one shortcut to switch
into your new mode and a different one to switch back to normal mode.

> 
> Sorry for being so annoying, but I don't have a midi keyboard and I
> find using the virtual keyboard awkward for me.
> 
> I really appreciate
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