Very difficult to select text frame with a full line of text

• Jan 22, 2019 - 21:46
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project

3.0.1, Windows 10

1) load attach score
2) try to select the text frame (the frame itself, not the text - so you can adjust the gap, for instance)

Result: it's hard :-). The bbox for the text overlaps that of the frame, and the Z-order is on top, so the only wa I can get it to work reliably is to delete some text.

This remains true, btw, if only one line of a multi-line text extend to the frame border, because the bbox still overlaps. But if all lines end short of the right edge of the frame, clicking the right edge works.

This, BTW, is not a regression against 2.x as far as I can tell. At best it is marginally easier (and if so, what a pun that would be...) to catch a sliver of frame between the right edge of the text and frame in some cases, but that could be my imagination.


Comments

At one time I implemented a tweak where Ctrl+click, instead of merely toggling selection status for an element, actually cycled through overlapping elements. Code needs to be rebased / updated (which should not be difficult) but I think it should still work. See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2622

It should also be the case that the ALt+Left/Right navigation command should be traversing frames and their comments, but currently they do not.

Priority P1 - High P2 - Medium
Severity S3 - Major S4 - Minor

Now that the Ctrl+click to cycle through overlapping elements fix is in, this is much less of a concern than it would be otherwise. Assuming, of course, users discover this.