Bars overlap when shrunk (0.9.6 beta2 r2811)

• Mar 7, 2010 - 16:20

Hi

This looks like a bug : shrink a bar, and the bars overlap and the display becomes unreadable.
This shrinking feature usually works well, except on this document that I have attached (I have no idea
what's so special about it....)

Steps to reproduce: (this is on 0.9.6 beta2 r2811, Windows XP SP2)

- open the attached file
- select the 3rd bar (the one with the D7 chord above it)
- use the { shortcut to shrink the bar

Problem: The bars become all messed up because they overlap each other.
See "before" and "after" screenshots.

Desired behavior : the selected bar should only shrink slightly, and if that creates enough room to add
an extra bar on the line, then by all means add it, but if there's no room, don't add it; in all cases notes
from one bar should not appear in another bar.

Notes:
1) same thing happens with the 1st bar
2) same thing happens with the 2nd bar but you have to use the shortcut 4 or 5 times
3) this was also present in 0.9.5
4) if I save the doc and reopen it, its reopens with the bars overlapping

Thanks for all the hard work !

Attachment Size
Ile aux enfants.mscz 3.23 KB
ile_before.jpg 127.61 KB
ile_after.jpg 131.07 KB

Comments

• Mar 7, 2010 - 18:20

Thanks for your report. I agree the behavior can be misleading but you can work around it by adding more strech again.
The file you attached crash current musescore trunk.

Last point, I think you should read about [tie] and [slur]. In measure 4 I guess it's a tie not a slur.
Nice choice of song :) when it's done you could post it on wikifonia
Lasconic (from Toulouse)

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• Mar 8, 2010 - 03:11

My comments to your comments below...

> I agree the behavior can be misleading but you can work around it by adding more strech again.

Not sure what you mean- are you saying this is misleading, but working as desired?
If I add more strech, I return to the previous state, so my bars are not shrunk like I wanted to originally (which is why I pressed { in the 1st place).

I experimented a bit more, and if you press { a lot of times, very strange things happen- the bar shrinks for a while, but then starts expanding- is there any explanation for all this ? This behavior seems counter-intuitive and wrong.

In the file I submitted, I'm pretty sure that if I shrink a couple of bars just a little, I could fit 5 bars on that 1st line, which is what I want. I've done it lots of times on other files. How can I achieve that? Is there a better (supported) way?

> Last point, I think you should read about [tie] and [slur]. In measure 4 I guess it's a tie not a slur.

Right. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll make some corrections.

> Nice choice of song :) when it's done you could post it on wikifonia

LOL :):) I knew you'd like it. Ah, memories. I played it tonight and it was pretty well received!

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