Re: [Lily4jedit-devel] QuickLily suggestions - part 1

[Joshua K. <jos...@gm...>]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to make changes tonight.

Maybe I can explain a little here.

1.
There are two quicklily "algorithms" that I plan to implement. 
a) Append Mode
b) Smart Insertion

(A) is the simpler algorithm because its just concerned about
"appending" text to the text area. Hence, notes entry are absolute. I
thought "Append mode" sounds confusing, so I placed a lyqi like mode
(i thought lyqi only entry absolute notes) for now. If its doesnt fill
the bill, free free to change the name too. Its possible to "hack"
this method to give relative notes too. But the lily keys have to be
type one after another.

(B) is the method which will consider relative contexts. I actually
did this method eariler, the code i think used for the note previewer
entry, but after code changes for the NoteString class, I have yet to
modify the code to make it work. What this methods does, is a
BackMatcher is searched for "\relative note { " and the note pitches
and duration are calculated all the way till where the cursor is, then
insert the new note with its "relative pitch and duration". For this
it will take some processing on every keystroke, so I'm planning to
have a background thread to calcuate.

I not sure how perfect will method B turn out to be. If its not
doable, maybe B may be abandoned. method A can be used with the
convert absolute to relative function, if not, do a relative hack on
method A.

2.
About insert and edit mode,  its actually just a toggle whether you
want to "insert" OR "edit" a note at the cursor. (Actually just 1 menu
item or shortcut key could be needed to use the 2 modes). Meaning,
insert will always insert a new note, and edit will change the note to
the pitch when the pitch key is hitted. Actually if you use the shift
note key (SHIFT +/- i think) you can modify the pitch too, so you
might want to remove the "Edit mode". The reason why I thought of this
mode was because of the note previewer which will have the option to
drag a note pitch (edit) or double click a note (enter a new note).

3.
The key recognizer is just a BackMatch to the preious \key. it will
run only when you go into the "Append Mode". And the lily panel would
reflect the key (for now). Maybe its not commited? Sometimes the
connection to the cvs server disconnects for me.

I can imagine the user adjusting the key maybe using a drop down list
for a scale, or how would i reuse the dialog in the wizard which
select key signature?

4.
For the numpad + button, I have that problem too. I'm not sure, but
jEdit doesnt seem to want to accept the "NUM +" keybinding. I'll try
look into it and resolve it (at the same time change the method for
storing the shortcuts).

Feel free to make changes if you are eager to make any feature work , 
I will just the check the cvs always before I work on my part.  ;)

Joshua

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:17:40 +0100, Bertalan Fodor <fo...@fr...> wrote:
> Now I'm trying to work with quicklily. I draft here my first experiences.
> 
> - It would work in relative mode (or better, enable me to switch between
> relative and absolute mode)
> - Have you committed the key recognizer?
> - I must note that the key has to be settable by hand, because it
> happens very often that the melody is in a separate key, while the key
> signature remains the same.
> - I can't figure out what the difference is between Edit/Insert/Append
> mode. It should be renamed or/and documented.
> - The notepad - sharpens on my machine and not flattens.
> 
> It is for documenting my experiences, if you don't have time, it is
> possible that I will hack the quicklily code :-)
> 
> Bert
> 
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