Grabbing the page instead of an element
I don't know if this sounds reasonable to others, but there are instances, especially while zoomed in, when it is difficult to grab the page to navigate due to an over abundance of elements in the score to the point where even between staffs a click will select an element rather than the page, and this forces one to zoom out in order to find a blank area to move the page around in page-view. It would be nice to have a short-cut that would trigger a "grab the page" mode with the mouse so that when one clicks with the mouse it disregards all elements and grabs the page no matter what for easier navigation rather than to have to change the current view. Is there anything like that already that I'm overlooking?
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If you're looking for easier ways to navigate and you have a scroll wheel, try using that.
Normal scroll goes up/down.
Holding Shift while scrolling goes left/right.
Holding Ctrl while scrolling zooms in/out.
In reply to If you're looking for easier by jeetee
Unfortunately on my Linux machine I'm working with a trackball with no scroll wheel. But you've given me an idea: maybe I can configure some scroll wheel emulation with my X system config. Thanks for the tip, although I still think it'd be nice to have some sort of feature as mentioned.
In reply to Unfortunately on my Linux by worldwideweary
Most devices already have some such gesture. But do you really mean a "trackball* as opposed to a *touchpad*? Haven't seen one of those since the days of dial up modems :-). Touchpads almost always have scroll functionality built in via some gesture like two-finger swipe or a scroll zone along the side or some such.
Anyhow, the intent is definitely for people to use the wheel for navigation. For the few people using computers that don't include this functionality, there is always the Navigator as well. Not that yet another way of navigating couldn't occasionally be useful.
In reply to Most devices already have by Marc Sabatella
One of these bad boys:
design softwares, e.g. autocad, use middle button for the pan. Could be an option in musescore? obviously with trakpads and tablets is not a solution.
This may not be the route that the MuseScore developer team would like to take, but I for one have a sort of sweet-tooth toward programs having as much functionality being dynamically assignable to the front-end user via "hot-keys" or "short-cuts" or whatever. This is also applicable to nitty gritties: even a "grab page" function which is triggered when a mouse holds down a left-mouse button on a non-element on a page should be assignable to a key or combination of keys with this type of paradigm. I particularly accustomed myself to this sort of thing with the DAW Reaper -- practically everything is assignable and allowed to be saved as a configuration. Just musin'. Good evening.