Musescore nearly unusable on Mac Snow Leopard
Howdy,
I'm trying to use Musescore (for the first time). I'm running Musescore:
Version: 1.1
Revision: 4611
On Mac Snow Leopard:
Mac OS X
Version 10.6.8
Pretty much nothing I've tried except deleting measures works. I imported an abc file, and it shows up, albeit very slowly. It is difficult to select part of the piece; swiping with the mouse moves the music rather than selecting notes; single and double clicking produces random results; and using the shift and command keys to extend a selection (assuming I manage to get a selection) produce random results. Drop-down menus do not work in any part of the UI I have tried -- I only see the default choice. Transposing music does not work -- I don't get an error, the music is simply not transposed. If I delete the first measure the time signature disappears. For some reason -- this seems to be a deliberate choice -- the delete key does not delete.
Does Musescore pretty much not work on Mac?
Thanks
Comments
Several tens of thousands are using MuseScore on Snow Leopard. So far we didn't receive a similar bug report. It almost looks like a (shift, command, ...) key got jammed and blocks any command you try to attempt. But this is a very far guess. Let's stick to the basics.
When you start MuseScore, there is this demo score called Bilder einer Ausstellung that open by default. Can you perform any actions on this score and see whether you can reproduce the behavior? Perhaps it's only the case for the ABC imported file.
When you still have the same behavior, can you try to Revert to factory settings and then try again?
One more question: did you install MuseScore by dragging it into the application folder or did you mount the dmg file as disc.
In reply to MuseScore on Snow Leopard by Thomas
> It almost looks like a (shift, command, ...) key got jammed and blocks any command you try to attempt.
No stuck keys.
> When you start MuseScore, there is this demo score called Bilder einer Ausstellung that open by default. Can you perform any actions on this score and see whether you can reproduce the behavior? Perhaps it's only the case for the ABC imported file.
Some things work better with that file, for example drop-down menus work, and transpose works (sort of -- up and down still don't work, but transposing to a specific key now works). I dont understand why the contents of the score would affect the basic UI elements.
> One more question: did you install MuseScore by dragging it into the application folder or did you mount the dmg file as disc.
I'm running out of the DMG while I evaluate the software.
In reply to > It almost looks like a by terpsichore
"swiping with the mouse moves the music rather than selecting notes"
That's normal behavior. You can use shift and drag to select notes or just click in a measure. You can also click a notehead and shift click another one to select a part of the music. Select a notehead and shift + arrow can also be used to select.
Nothing random about single and double click. Single select a element. For a note, you can click the notehead a it and use the arrow key to move it, or you can drag it. Double click enter edit mode, it's not need for notes except for special case but it's useful for lines or texts.
If you feel you can't click on something because it's too small. Try to zoom in, Cmd + scroll should do it.
I write this on a Mac, Snow Leopard 10.6.8, running MuseScore 1.1 and tested everything I wrote down.
Also, have you read the Handbook or watched any of the tutorial videos to understand how MuseScore works? I could see how the results of clicking could sometimes appear "random" if you didn't understand what was supposed to happen but were just sort randomly clicking things trying to find your own way around. So it would also help if you described more specifically what you tried to do - the exact sequence of clicks and/or keypresses - and what you expected to see happen versus what actually happened.
In reply to Also, have you read the by Marc Sabatella
> So it would also help if you described more specifically what you tried to do - the exact sequence of clicks and/or keypresses
In the second measure of Bilder einer Ausstellung if I click near the head of a note (not on it -- near it) the note plays. If I click near the stem of a note, nothing happens. If I poke click around several times I can eventually find a place to click where the measure is selected.
In the third measure of Bilder einer Ausstellung, which is crowded, I cannot find any place to click and select the measure.
This is why things seem random. I can click twenty times trying to select a measure, and sometimes succeed.
> and what you expected to see happen versus what actually happened
If I want to select a range of notes or measures, as a Mac user I would expect to place the mouse cursor somewhere on the score, hold down the mouse button, and move the mouse to select a range. On Musescore, that just moves the sheet of music around.
In reply to > So it would also help if by terpsichore
Definitely read the Handbook and/or watch the tutorial videos, then - the basic operations of the program are explained quite well.
It's true that click/drag moves the score, because you need to do that a whole lt more than you need to select ranges. So selecting is done with Shift. Or click an empty space in a measure to select that measure, then shift-click an empty space in another measure to extend the selection. If you have trouble finding an empty space in a measure, zoom in (ctrl-wheel). But again, shift-drag also works.
BTW, clicking a notehead selects it; the fact that it plays is a side effect. More important is that you can then do things with it. Clicking a stem selects the stem, and different things can be done with that.