Shortcut for note colour?
I see there is a plugin for guitar tab colours.
https://musescore.org/en/project/tab-tools
Is there one that shows a floating palette with colour buttons (R,G.,B, etc) that I could click to colour a note or selection of notes in one click? Even assign a shortcut keystroke to one , such as Ctrl+Alt+R for Red?
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You could adapt the code from my tab-tools plugin very easily. I'm not so sure about shortcut keys but I'll do some research.
If I remember correctly the colouring will work on most score elements: click a note then click a colour swatch to test this. Just don't use the tidy option unless you know exactly what it is designed to do.
In reply to You could adapt the code… by yonah_ag
Thank you, I'll look up the docs - I hope the code is in a recognisable scripting language.
In reply to Thank you, I'll look up the… by probeirne
Javascript
In reply to Thank you, I'll look up the… by probeirne
If it's for MS3 then I can make you a starting point if it would help.
How many colours to you need?
Is it just for note elements or for other elements too? e.g. stems, hooks, beams, texts, rests, articulations, ...
In reply to If it's for MS3 I can make… by yonah_ag
I have MS 4.3.1. I had a look at the qml and editing it requires more knowledge of the musescore objects than I've got. I take it that github is for developments and experiments and the Musescore plugins page is for endorsed plugins? I see some note colouring plugins that do the entire score (for educational purposes I expect) rather than the selection, so I'd need to know some way to restrict their action to the notes in the current selection only.
Did I see @Marc Sabatella show a shortcut to 'repeat last action' whatever that action was? If so, I could colour one note and then repeat for other selections. I don't see such a command in the Shortcuts list.
In reply to I have MS 4.3.1. I had a… by probeirne
I don't use MS4 at all.
GitHub is typically a place for working collaboratively on software development. This can be commercial or non-commercial and in almost any programming language. The MS plugins for download are not endorsed in any way: they are submitted by ordinary users and are not vetted, so use at your own risk. The only endorsed plugins are the few that are pre-installed in MS.
MS3 plugins can detect, (and work with), selected elements, a selected range or full score. Hopefully MS4 plugins offer the same options. https://musescore.github.io/MuseScore_PluginAPI_Docs/plugins/html/class…
Yes, there is learning curve in getting up to speed with the object model.
You can define your own keyboard shortcuts for most actions: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/keyboard-shortcuts
I have not done so myself, so it's a bit of a mystery to me. :-) Specifically, I don't know whether the particular action you want can be assigned to a shortcut. Best way to find out is to try.
Good luck!
In reply to You can define your own… by TheHutch
I have not seen shortcuts for setting colour, font face, font size etc.
In reply to You can define your own… by TheHutch
Marc had a Musescore Tip a week or so ago on doing this, but it's simple enough:
Edit > Preferences > Shortcuts , search for the action you want, eg "chord symbols",
double- click the one you want, press the keys, eg Alt+K, Save.
But note colours are Text Appearance Properties, Colour, buried deep in dialogs, so they will not appear in the list of actions to which shortcuts can be assigned,