#ghost chords

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steel dew
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I seem to have made a ghost chord. Pressing it doesn't trigger it, and it doesn't appear in the device manager, but I believe it exists because if I enter its output into the impulse chording menu, the menu suggests its corresponding input.

The chord I tried to make would map KM_2_L + DUP + l to "four", and I created it through the impulse chording menu.

The impulse chording menu should probably prevent the creation of a chord you can't trigger. Also, the device manager should let me delete it; probably both of "the device manager should be able to display this chord to me" and "the device manager should be able to notice chords it can't display and give a way to blanket delete them" should be true, but either one would be good enough.

timber ridge
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Isn't that the same as "dup+4"? Numshift + l to make 4, and then dup?

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(Three edits to that short message to get it right, yeah, I need my caffeine...)

steel dew
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Well, that was the idea. It didn't seem to pan out, though.

glossy ginkgo
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I'm confused on how you are determining there to be a ghost chord, can you explain what you mean?

The impulse chord menu doesn't "look up" chords; rather, It shows the last chord input that you tried, whether it exists or not.

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This is by design so if you try to chord a word, realize you don't have it, you can call up the impulse menu, type in the output, and then the chord input is already ready

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(worth noting for any passer bys that the above functionality seems broken in beta, it's known)

steel dew
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Excellent, this means I have no evidence the chord exists.

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Then this becomes a feature request rather than a bug report: I'd like to be able to make this chord, and can't. =P

glossy ginkgo
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If you have the capability to record a video/gif of making it in impulse then trying it a few times in a notepad or something that would be really helpful

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this is an odd one for sure

timber ridge
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(if you're on windows, win+shift+s, the screenshot tool, has a video mode)

steel dew
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Sure. It will have to wait until the end of the work-day, my experience streaming and content creating tells me video production takes a long time even for things it seems like should be quick.

timber ridge
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If you're inexperienced, yeah, it can take a bit more time than anticipated.

steel dew
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My outside view is that it takes more time than anticipated even for the experienced.

timber ridge
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Hehe, yeahh... As an experienced in a few field, it either takes way less time than expected, or it takes much longer than expected. Actually being on time is the exception.

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Taking a video of typing.

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Eh, could have been better with more effort, but you get the gist.

steel dew
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The behavior got weirder since I first reported the issue. 🥺

glossy ginkgo
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wow