there's a copy button but no paste button

[wayfu]

for instruments and units both

[vsariola]

CTRL-C / CTRL-V should work, I think the UI is getting cluttered if I add paste buttons everywhere. I'm actually inclined to delete the copy button altogether to save some space, or perhaps move these less used buttons under a popup menu.

[wayfu]

the shortcuts do work, but the wrinkle i hit was that when you click into a unit name, it becomes editable and pasting into it will paste the unit yml into the unit name instead of pasting the unit into the slot...

[vsariola]

That's an unfortunate downside of how sointu serializes the data as text to clipboard & the default gioui text widgets accepting text paste events. I am aware of that wrinkle but did not figure out good way to avoid it.

What the text serialization enables is pasting the yml to a text file and copying it later back, so one can e.g. do some manual tweaking of the data or keeping a couple of different versions of an instrument quite easily in a scratch space. So, I'm not very eager to e.g. serialize the data to clipboard as binary data, which probably would not be accepted by the text widget.

Meanwhile, the gioui text widgets afaik are not flexible enough to disable the paste mechanism, even though in this case it I'm pretty sure it would not be needed. One can write clone the widget package & write own widgets, that part is relatively doable still. But the more annoying part is that then one has to rewrite the material UI skin on top of the widget (how it looks like), and that is more of a hassle.

I could ask gioui authors if there is a way to disable paste in the text widgets.

[wayfu]

do the unit names have to be editable at all? i mean, it would be useful to give them custom names, but currently that just deletes the unit.... as long as that's not possible anyway, maybe they could be labels instead of text fields (like the names of parameters in the unit, those don't become editable when clicked)

[vsariola]

They are not editable, that is actually a "search box", so that you can quickly type "o" or "osc" and hit enter, and get the oscillator unit... you can see the narrowed results on the right as you type there the unit name

[wayfu]

okay! one more thing though: when you type something that's not a valid unit name, the current unit is deleted? might be better to keep the current unit in case of invalid input.