On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 13:51 -0800, Wade McReynolds wrote: > Sorry, that was a typo; the iPad keyboard I was using seems to have > capitalized the letter automatically. I just checked and confirmed > that the default shortcuts ALT+lower-case letter do not add any > notes, at least not on my machine. If it doesn't insert a note what does it do? You can find out by pressing the key combination and then looking on the left hand side of the status bar - it gives the name of the command you just executed. If it is not a shortcut for any command then pressing it a second time will bring up the advisory dialog telling you so. Does that happen?
> And the shortcut dialog does show that I'm using lower case, not > upper. (I'm not as inept with my laptop's keyboard as with my > iPad's.) Oddly, after trying ALT+capital-letter I found that those > key combinations do add notes to make a chord, including "F," "C," > etc. So do you have the "menu navigation by keyboard" off or on? And what shortcut is listed against those commands (e.g. in the Command Center - see attached screenshot which shows my setting, which is, I think, the default). (And, just to check you have version 2.4.5? There were fixes for MacOS a while back). Richard > > > On Feb 2, 2021, at 2:59 AM, Richard Shann <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 13:48 -0800, Wade McReynolds wrote: > > > I'm not able to add chord notes in Denemo using the Alt+{note} > > > > The default shortcut is Alt+(lowercase note), e.g. Alt-a > > > > > > > keyboard shortcut (current repo version + Ubuntu Linux). Pressing > > > some key combinations gives an error message (e.g., "Alt-A > > > is not a shortcut") > > > > In which case you could assign it by pressing Alt-A while you have > > the > > command highlighted in the menu. It would mean pressing Alt, Shift > > and > > the key labelled "A" (on most keyboards), or having the CapsLock > > set > > and pressing Alt and the key labelled "A". > > > > > ; pressing Alt+F gives me the File dropdown menu. > > > > This happens if you have the preference set for invoking menus from > > the > > keyboard see "Menu Navigation by Keyboard" in the preferences (see > > attached). > > > > Having said all that, various O/Ses intercept certain keypresses > > before > > they reach Denemo to do desktop operations - I just accidentally > > hit > > one while typing this and got a screenshot ready to print - so you > > may > > always have to change the shortcuts for your machine, or tell your > > O/S > > how you want it to behave (assuming it is listening to you!) > > > > > > > > Also, it would be nice if, after using the Check Note Pitches > > > feature, the dialog reading "Finished" would be given focus, so > > > that > > > I can hit Enter to dismiss it rather than switch to the mouse. (I > > > haven't tested this one using the latest version of Denemo, BTW.) > > > > I just tried this out - the focus is on the dialog in the current > > version when finishing the piece or after re-invoking the command > > to > > force it to stop. > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > <Screenshot at 2021-02-02 10-48-35.png>
