Flip stem direction anomaly
While fooling around with the files posted here.
https://musescore.org/en/node/272019
I stumbled upon something amiss in this file, maybe related:
Stem_anomaly.mscz
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In measures 1 & 3 in the "Something weird..." section the heads are set to Mirror head = Right rather than auto in all of the other measures.
In reply to In measures 1 & 3 in the … by mike320
Ah... the applied mirror setting 'sticks' when reversed.
In other words:
1. You mirror a notehead
2. 'Put it back' by mirroring again (instead of undo)
3. The setting 'sticks' - so, if later, the stem gets flipped the notehead remains on the same side of the stem.
Regards.
In reply to Ah... the applied mirror… by Jm6stringer
This is actually consistent with other elements. If there are 3 options; such as auto, up, or down; if you use x to flip the item such as to up, the next x will always make it the opposite such as down. A second x is never an undo unless there are only two options. Other elements that this applies to includes stem, slurs and ties.
Edit: What I do consider a problem is that ctrl+r does not reset the positions to auto. I'm not sure if it was designed this way, but ctrl+r should reset all values to the default.
In reply to This is actually consistent… by mike320
That's a good point about the 3 options vs. 2 options as related to 'undo'.
Also, I completely missed the mirror head setting in the Inspector, and so I was using Ctrl+R to reset everything. That, as you know, didn't work.
(Typically, when things get out of hand, Ctrl+R is my friend. It brings back 'normalcy'.)
Regards.
In reply to This is actually consistent… by mike320
At one time I do believe there was fairly specific thinking about what Ctrl+R would and wouldn't reset - this was before there was an Inspector. Over time I think things drifted. Probably could stand revisiting. It's tempting to say it should reset "everything" but I suspect there are some common use cases that actually work better if we only reset "some" things but not others.
In reply to At one time I do believe… by Marc Sabatella
I agree that there are some common use setting that shouldn't be reset like visibility. I can't off the top of my head really think of what else this might include.