change highlight color?
Its very difficult for me to tell when a note is highlighted--Musescore's blue is just too close to black on my smallish monitor. I've looked in Preferences and Style/General for a way to change it, and searched through the handbook for "highlight" and "color", but can't see a way to change the selection color. Can this be done, or is it impossible?
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Select the notes, by Inspector change the color to orange. It's not perfect but it could help.
I repeat an old idea: https://musescore.org/en/node/25583
I do not know if there is a solution to the topic described here:
https://musescore.org/en/node/23988
In reply to Select the notes, by by Shoichi
Shoichi, many thanks for replying. Unfortunately my difficulty is in seeing whether a note has been selected or not in the first place, so that I can then proceed to perform an operation upon it. Once I have ensured that a note is selected--which I would also have to do first in order to use Inspector to change its color--the problem has already been solved. So changing each note that way is not a solution to the problem; the problem must be solved first before that operation (or any other) can be performed on the highlighted element. As one of the commentors in 23988 says, the solution must be global.
So, Mr. Sabatella or someone else--has there been any progress on issue 23988?
Precisely because of what Mr. Sabatella says in 23988 post #6 (different monitors make different colors hard or easy to see), this needs to be a global setting that users can change to fit their specific system. Being able to globally change the highlighted note/element to bright orange would certainly make my scoring a good deal less frustrating than it currently is.
Not saying Musescore is bad or anything. It's a great program. Just like to see it even better!
In reply to Shoichi, many thanks for by Ironword
There is not currently way to change this.
Meanwhile, you might consider adjusting your monitor, perhaps have it calibrated. I suspect it is not rendering colors as accurately as it could be.
In reply to There is not currently way to by Marc Sabatella
Maybe my monitor is the culprit; but I do a lot of work in CorelDraw and Photopaint with no color problems, not to mention all the other programs I use, and Musescore is the only one in which I have a difficulty of this nature.
In reply to Shoichi, many thanks for by Ironword
@Ironword, excuse me if I can not explain better (I do not speak English), I meant:
Select "all notes" then choose orange. Bring them on black before printing, only a workaround.
In reply to Select the notes, by by Shoichi
Shoichi -
The problem is not just your monitor, the problem is the eye itself. There are two color pairs that are notoriously hard to see, one is "blue on black", the other is "yellow on white". A workaround is to zoom into the score so that the notes are bigger. The solution is to change the highlighting color of the note from blue to something else, preferably user-defined. I love MuseScore and couldn't do without it, but this is a glitch for sure.
In reply to Shoichi -… by lvwarren
Good news is in the works!
In reply to [inline:Colors.png] by Jm6stringer
Awesome! Really looking forward to that.
In reply to Awesome! Really looking… by Ironword
look at the 3.0 Alpha 2 version then ;-)
In reply to look at the 3.0 Alpha 2… by Jojo-Schmitz
I have just updated to the newest version 3 today and I have the same problem with my eyes to clearly differentiate between normal notes in my score and the ones I have highlighted.
I have tried out all colour parameters of edit=>preferences=>advanced with no success so far.
Which one is the right parameter and at what stage does the colour change appear? Do I have to close and reopen my score to see the effect?
In reply to I have just updated to the… by jwark
Selected notes use their voice color. The selection rectangle is drawn in the voice 1 color.
Changing the setting takes effect when closing the dialog window