I would suggest that selection followed by repositioning makes you lose your place in the score, especially larger orchestral scores. Also, zoom is not necessary. I usually want to see the selection against the whole page, then I can decide whether to zoom or not.
It would be simpler if “Find / Go To” were fully available at all times. I would suggest that the ability to move to a bar, or rehearsal mark, is more important than whether the score pans during playback. Can the likelihood of users’ behaviour be assessed? People using pencils and paper, and a piano to play the score, don’t follow preset patterns. Could the software mirror that approach as well?
I'm not clear about this reply. Something didn't work and I didn't know why. I start Musescore, open the score I've been working on, and I wish to go to rehearsal mark "Z" to carry on working. The score currently starts at "R".
OK. So this is a duplicate. Let's hope it gets fixed soon.
Workaround is obviously to select the pan score button while using Find.
This is a particularly nasty bug as there is little obvious connection between cause (pan score button not selected) and effect (navigation broken) and I am sure it causes more confusion than shows up in the forum and issue tracker with users just assuming that Find doesn't work randomly.
The same problem occurs in MS 4 alpha 2 but I don't see an issue that deals with it. I hope that such MS3 issues will not get lost during or after the development of the release version of MS 4.
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Does it work if you select the Pan Score During Playback button? If so, you are seeing #330598: Disabling "Pan score" button breaks direct navigation by the Find command and the Timeline
What do you expect to happen? Does you score have a rehearsal mark starting with Z?
Also give this issue a better title
In reply to Does it work if you select… by SteveBlower
Thank you for your prompt reply. Yes, it does work if the “Pan Score” button is selected.
https://musescore.org/en/node/330598
I have read the comments at this node.
I would suggest that selection followed by repositioning makes you lose your place in the score, especially larger orchestral scores. Also, zoom is not necessary. I usually want to see the selection against the whole page, then I can decide whether to zoom or not.
It would be simpler if “Find / Go To” were fully available at all times. I would suggest that the ability to move to a bar, or rehearsal mark, is more important than whether the score pans during playback. Can the likelihood of users’ behaviour be assessed? People using pencils and paper, and a piano to play the score, don’t follow preset patterns. Could the software mirror that approach as well?
In reply to What do you expect to happen… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm not clear about this reply. Something didn't work and I didn't know why. I start Musescore, open the score I've been working on, and I wish to go to rehearsal mark "Z" to carry on working. The score currently starts at "R".
The title of this thread has been amended.
OK. So this is a duplicate. Let's hope it gets fixed soon.
Workaround is obviously to select the pan score button while using Find.
This is a particularly nasty bug as there is little obvious connection between cause (pan score button not selected) and effect (navigation broken) and I am sure it causes more confusion than shows up in the forum and issue tracker with users just assuming that Find doesn't work randomly.
The same problem occurs in MS 4 alpha 2 but I don't see an issue that deals with it. I hope that such MS3 issues will not get lost during or after the development of the release version of MS 4.
Thank you again. I can adapt in the interim. Onwards and upwards!
So a duplicate of #330598: Disabling "Pan score" button breaks direct navigation by the Find command and the Timeline