How to select one beat ?
How to select one single beat ?
Clicking on a note, doesn't select the whole beat but only the clicked note.
How to select the entire beat at once ? I tried all the mouse buttons combinations without success.
Any easy way ?
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Comments
shift + click it while you have nothing else selected.
In reply to shift + click it while you… by mike320
Gosh! Thanks.
In reply to Gosh! Thanks. by parkingb
At one time you could shift+click on the chord when only part of it was selected but this was changed at some point. The change is probably related to the shift+click to select like items in a list. If that's the case, it's a good tradeoff. Otherwise, it made more sense to be able to shift+click a note already selected to select its entire chord.
In reply to At one time you could shift… by mike320
If it's a chord of multiple notes, it works to click one, Shift+click another. Do you mean it once worked to click some other part of the chord, like the stem, then Shift+click a notehead? if so, that must have been quite a long time time ago. it's not that way in 2.3.2, and I don't remember it having ever been different.
In reply to If it's a chord of multiple… by Marc Sabatella
I seem to remember not needing to move my mouse after clicking a note previously. I'd click a note, pause a second then shift+click to get the entire chord. When this didn't work I didn't experiment too much with what could and couldn't be clicked before the shift+click. I figured it had been changed with some of the other changes that happened between 3.3 and 3.4.2 while I wasn't upgrading. It seems I was wrong.
In reply to I seem to remember not… by mike320
Youŕe not wrong :-). I hadn't tried that specifically - clicking one note, then Shift+clicking that same note after a short delay. Seems indeed this worked to create a range selection in 3.2.3 but doesn't anymore, not sure why. I know there were changes to the handling of clicks in general in order to support the ability to edit lines without double-clicking, but I don't think should have been expected those changes would affect anything about notes.
In reply to Youŕe not wrong :-). I hadn… by Marc Sabatella
I got curious and checked in the code. It seems this changed as part of an effort to allow dragging of multiple elements simultaneously, which used to be difficult to impossible because the click that started the drag would unselect everything else. It is conceivable there would be a way to get this behavior back with respect to a second click on a single selected note without breaking the multiple-drag, but changes to that code do tend to have unforeseen consequences, so I'd be reluctant to attempt it.
In reply to I got curious and checked in… by Marc Sabatella
Now that I know how to select the chord easier it's fine. I don't see a reason to change it at the risk of messing something else up especially at this late date in 3.6. Perhaps it could be looked at in 4.0.