Note's dot's visibility is incorrect when toggling visibility with note and dot selected
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Many
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
Today I discovered a small bug.
1. write a note with a 'rhythmic dot'. (for example a eight-1/2 note)
2. Select the whole measure(see picture) and press 'v' to make the selection invisible.
3. The rhythmic dot is excluded from this handling and keeps visible. Vice versa it works just fine.
I set the priority to normal because almost nobody is bothering by this bug but in my case i used invisibility to make look my score more clearly but now i have to correct all dots manually which is of course anoying.
Philip Bergwerf
[ps. to improve my language skills: what's a proper word in english to express 'eight-1/2' note?]
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Fix version
3.1.0
Comments
I guess you probably pressed "V" to toggle visibility rather than using the Inspector to directly set everything invisible. The latter works.
What is happening with "V" is that because both the note and the dot are select, and because toggling visibility for the note also toggles it for the dot, the dot ends up getting toggled twice - once because it is part of the note, once because it is selected on its own as well.
We've had similar issues in the past that were resolved by being sure not to toggle twice (I think this happened for the command to toggle staccato dots on chords with an even number of notes, for example).
Oh, BTW, the note in your picture is called a "dotted eighth note" in American English, or a "dotted quaver" in British English.
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2741
Reported again: #165631: Dot does not turn invisible By some miracle, the PR still has no merge conflicts, and as can be seen from the conversation on https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2741, Fyrult changed it according to lasconic's feedback. Since there no longer seems any reason not to, I think it should be merged.
I've just come across this bug as well in 2.0.3/Win 7.
Came up again in #236786: Selected doted notes made invisible doesn't invisibilitate the dot
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/275663#comment-850504
PR has merge conflicts but the basic approach is probably sound.
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/4954 takes a much simpler approach.
Fixed in branch master, commit 09057c07d3
fix #116771: Note's dot's visibility is incorrect when toggling visibility with note and dot selected
Fixed in branch master, commit 42bce146ad
_Merge pull request #4954 from mattmcclinch/116771-toggle-visible
fix #116771: Note's dot's visibility is incorrect when toggling visibility with note and dot selected_
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.