cmang
Esc-[ can't change character sets in Playback mode
I discovered recently that edits made while an animation is playing are applied to all frames in the playback range, which is super convenient! (Though, I do not believe this is mentioned anywhere in the documentation.)
Adding and removing columns works this way, as does removing lines, but I cannot seem to add a line while an animation is playing, neither with esc+/ nor with alt+/.
I can achieve the desired outcome by cutting/pasting across all frames in range when the affected area is the same in all frames, but this can be a bear if I need to shift an entire animation downward or create more space at the top of the image.
Thanks!
Weird. There was a typo preventing this from working. It should be fixed in the "dev" branch now. Can you please verify?
Thanks for the report!
edits made while an animation is playing are applied to all frames in the playback range, which is super convenient! (Though, I do not believe this is mentioned anywhere in the documentation.)
You're right.. it probably should be. I'll have to mention this in the help file. I think it's a pretty cool feature, too. As far as I know, it's unique to Durdraw. I was going to cover animation in the Pt 2 video tutorial, when I get around to it.
I'm glad to see that you're playing with the animation features, btw! :)
Oh! And I believe there is a similar issue with the alt/esc+[ shortcut for cycling to the previous f1-f10 character palette.
Oh! And I believe there is a similar issue with the alt/esc+[ shortcut for cycling to the previous f1-f10 character palette.
That one is a little weirder and trickier. I'm not yet sure why that doesn't work, but I think the esc-[ gets misunderstood by Durdraw as an escape control code (which also uses the [ character), and doesn't register properly. I did implement esc-pgup and esc-pgdown as an alternative to esc-[, as mentioned in the source code (durdraw/durdraw_ui_curses.py#1348):
1348 elif c == 91 or c == 339: # alt-[ previous character set. apparently this doesn't work
1349 self.prevCharSet() # during playback, c == -1, so 339 is alt-pgup, as a backup
It's ugly. I don't like it. I'll revisit this issue and see if I can come up with something better.