Can´t change color of Chord Notation
I am working with a dark mode Musescore 3.6.2 on Endeavour OS (Arch Based) Linux.
I have all apps on dark/night mode, as it is easier for my eyes.
My actual page color in Musescore is dark grey and the staff and notes is dark almost white.
Chord notation (entered with CTRL+K) is there but won´t show nor allow me to change color. I can, for example, add a frame within Inspector (in the image there is a circle frame for each chord, you can see it but not the chord), but can´t change color so I am not capable of seeing the chord notation. When I print, everything is printed OK (in black, of course, in my white printer page), but the chord notation is not printed at all.
I attach screenshot.
Comments
Didnt You accidentaly change alpha of chord color to 0, so it became transparent?
In reply to Didnt You accidentaly change… by sammik
where do I check that?
In reply to where do I check that? by geomatha
In inspector, or globaly in preferences, as Jm6stringer wrote.
Have you tried this:
Use menu item: Format > Style > Text Styles > Chord Symbol -- and there change the color.
You can definitely change color for chord symbols just as you can for pretty much any element, using the Inspector.
If you continue to have trouble, please attach the score rather than just a picture of it, then we can understand and assist better.
In reply to You can definitely change… by Marc Sabatella
I tried changing color through both Inspector and Format>Style.
The UI lets me click the already selected color, which looks just like the background of the window, (so it looks like if nothing was there), and then it opens the window for choosing a color. No matter what color I choose, When I click OK to close the window, the color remains the same. Exactly the same phenomenon happens when I try to change color through the Inspector.
So, I deleted some measures of my mscz file and saved it under a new name in order to send it to you guys, and found a workaround. If I click on " Pick Screen Color", then the problem goes away and I can choose a color again. Please have a look at the file and tell me what you think
So this surely looks like a bug to me
Thanks
In reply to I tried changing color… by geomatha
The UI lets me click the already selected color, which looks just like the background of the window
OK, so...
Choose your new color and also set the alpha channel to 255 for opacity.
In reply to The UI lets me click the… by Jm6stringer
that's it!
so, it's not a bug, it was the alpha channel and picking a cscreen color also changes alpha channel
although not a bug, would it be good to change the UI somehow so it's not that confusing? Or I am just an exception?
thanks!!
In reply to that's it! so, it's not a… by geomatha
You wrote:
picking a cscreen color also changes alpha channel
Please attach an example in which you change the color of a score element and the alpha channel gets mysteriously changed (without you actually changing it).
In reply to You wrote: picking a cscreen… by Jm6stringer
I don't remembering changing the alpha channel but maybe with one of the tweaks I made in order to have a full dark theme I messed with something?
In reply to I don't remembering changing… by geomatha
Or you want a picture that show that when I pick a screen color with the drop picker the alpha changes?
In reply to Or you want a picture that… by geomatha
As far as I know, color pickers are resources provided by your OS and/or graphics libraries, not by MuseScore itself. I would normally assume most would be smart enough to set the alpha channel to opaque when choosing a color, but I haven’t tried them all.