Staff type changes aren't correctly moved when a measure is inserted
When I insert a measure before a staff type change, everything moves to the right to make space for the newly inserted measure, including the staff type change symbols, but the measure these symbols make reference to isn't changed.
A feasible workarond isn't possible when one has a lot of staff type changes, because MS doesn't currently support copy-pasting these elements.
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I think the best thing you can do at this point is explain what you are trying to do. You statements are quite vague and no one is likely to be able to give you useful help or write an coherent bug report to get it fixed. The goal is to help you.
In reply to I think the best thing you… by mike320
I think I understand. Enter a staff type change in a measure. Then select that measure and insert one measure: it is entered before the staff type change, not after it, which is where the OP wants it. I seem to recall seeing something similar mentioned in the forum recently, but I can't find it now.
In reply to I think I understand. Enter… by SteveBlower
If SeverBlower is right, it would be easier to insert a measure before the next measure, then select the measure with the staff change and press r to copy it automatically to the next measure. You can then delete the contents of that measure and you didn't have to retype everything.
In reply to If your right, it would be… by mike320
There is a similar problem when trying to insert a measure before a double bar. It would be nice to have an "insert after" command so that one could select the measure before a double bar and insert a measure between the selected measure and the double bar.
Start with this and try to insert a measure before the double bar
and you get this
Whereas what you want is this
In reply to There is a similar problem… by SteveBlower
Very similar (if not identical to): #244381: Add options for "Append to current measure" and "Insert at beginning of score", for measures and frames
In reply to Very similar (if not… by SteveBlower
Not thw same at all IMHO
In reply to There is a similar problem… by SteveBlower
I won't argue with that. All system items stay attached to the same physical measure no matter what it is. There do need to be both an insert before and insert after as well as the current append options (which always appends to the end of the score).
Edit: I see you found the suggestion and I updated it to include this discussion.
In reply to I won't argue with that. All… by mike320
For Staff Type Changes, when a measure is inserted before them, they stay attached to the same physical measure, but somehow they don't affect that measure anymore but the previous one. See the screenshots I attached on my recent comment
I think I didn't make myself clear, sorry for not being more specific. My problem is that every time I insert a measure anywhere before a Staff Type Change, the measure this element references gets shifted one to the left.
![before.png]( "before.png")
I'll attach before and after screenshots that might help illustrate the issue:
Before
After (clicked on measure 4, pressed 'insert'). Notice the difference in the cello and bass staves.
![after.png]( "after.png")
In reply to I think I didn't make myself… by Asmatzaile
Could you attach your before score so we can see what actually happens in the .mscz file?
In reply to Could you attach your before… by mike320
Sure!
In reply to Sure! by Asmatzaile
As I suspected, if you insert the measure then save and reload it does as expected, which is insert a measure before the staff type change with the previous definition in effect. This most definitely is a minor bug that should be reported at https://musescore.org/en/node/add/project_issue?pid=1236
In reply to As I suspected, if you… by mike320
Oh, it does indeed. Thank you :)
Issue reported. See #312644: Change in number of measures before a staff type change doesn't automatically update next measures