Slur continues to be moved after leaving edit mode from Note Entry

• Apr 5, 2020 - 21:28
Reported version
3.4
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
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1) Create measure with notes and give a slur between two notes
2) Select slur, move it around a bit with the arrow keys
3) Press "N"

The user looks to be in note entry mode
However, Press right and instead of going to the next chord/rest, the previously selected slur gets moved. Most definitely undesirable behavior: all previous selection to the slur should be cleared when entering into note entry, even if directly from selecting a slur. Maybe this also applies to other lines? Either way, I consider this a major bug

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I agree the selection should be cleared, but I'd disagree as to severity. This sequence - entering note input immediately after adjusting a slur but failing to press Esc first - would be a rare operation for most people, and the workaround is so obvious and easy. Still, would probably be a two line fix if someone feels like giving it a shot...

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Understood, but also let it be known that merely "selecting" a slur means it demands escapement before going into note-entry, else it gives false sense of "normal note entry" even though arrows will still move a slur around. In that sense, It feels like "in-between" minor and major to me. I'm very much used to going into note-entry directly after selecting a staff-text for example or a crescendo, and slurs are no different in that respect.

Edit: Then again, most of the time a user will enter a note directly after going into note-entry rather than using the right/left arrows, so the combination of this plus using the arrows is where it definitely makes sense to say this is a 'odd' use case, and one of the reasons why I'm not sure I ever ran into this before. Thing is, I often go into note entry for the sake of seeing my position since it is much clearer to the eyes what with the blue highlighting under certain zoom levels.

Farewell.

Status PR created fixed
Fix version 3.6.0

PR got manually merged into the 3.x branch (and doesn't apply to the master branch anymore)

Fix version
3.6.0