Score doesn't pan during playback

• Sep 10, 2011 - 14:27
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project

1. Open score.
2. Enable 'Pan score while playing'.
3. Play.

Result: It won't follow wherever the playback head is.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (4769) - Mac 10.6.8.


Comments

Status (old) fixed active

Partially fixed.

1. Open a multi-page score.
2. Ensure the view is set so a system on the other page is in full view vertically, but not horizontally.
3. Play.
4. Click on a note of a stave on the other page that's in full view vertically.

Result: Doesn't follow until there's a new system.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (4773) - Mac 10.6.8.

I think it might be fixed now - did you manage to reproduce? If so and it has been fixed, you could mark it.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (4775) - Mac 10.6.8.

Status (old) fixed active

Isn't the icon logic backwards now, compared to a few revisions ago? I have to enable the icon (which to me is yes to pan/play) but it won't pan. Turn off the icon and it will pan/play.

FWIW, to me, "pan" is something *I* do, when I grab a chunk of the score and drag it around. So an option to pan the score would imply to me that the usual automatic tracking of the score is disabled, and thus I am able to pan the score, wherwas I wouldn't be able to otherwise. Not that I think this is how the option should work. I'm sugest a different name might be in order if the idea is meant to be the turning the option on causes that automatic tracking.

Well, I just recall when the feature was put in and I had to enable the icon to allow me to pan the score during playback. Now its backwards, but I will do a full recompile and check again.

Recompiled R4789 (Win7) but it is still the same. I don't think I'm crazy as I assume the same logic as the "repeats on/off" button beside it. With the repeats button enabled (in, on, with the border around it) means repeats will play. When the pan/play button is enabled ("in", on, with the border around it) this means I can play while panning, but it won't. Only when I disable the feature will it allow me to pan.

If my logic is wrong then the button explanation (the pop-up text) is also wrong.

Just to be clear, when the pan icon looks like what's attached, it pans for me. Maybe it's a Windows exclusive?

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (4787) - Mac 10.6.8.

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The naming seems confusing. Pan means that the program automatically pans for you during playback. So if activated you can _not_ pan manually.
Maybe a better name would be "follow score".

Werner: sorry to say but I think the approach to this feature and the way the button works is completely backwards. MS always did "auto-pan", hence that feature already existed. Now you are letting the user disable that to pan the score themselves during playback. Therefore, the icon, when enabled, should let the user pan the score themselves.

I don't see a problem with taking a feature that was there before and turing it into an option that is on by defautl. Whether the. Feature is called "allow user to pan score himself during playback" with default off, or "have musescure follow the score automatically" with the default on, seems irrelevant, except in as much that one of these may be easier to capture with a shoreter phrase. I like the idea of "follow score" as a concise way of putting the second version, as "pan score" still leaves that confusion over which one of these it means. If someone has a mre concise but less ambiguous way of wording the first version, that would be fine, too. But Fwiw, I don't think the word "pan" shoukd play into it. Because my reason for not wanting the score to move during playback may have nothing to do with a desire to pan the score manually. I might want the score to stay right where it is so I can study it. Or I might be concerned about the performance hit from all those score redraws.

So really, I do think "follow score" is closer to being how I'd expect to see it labelled. Except - that too is techincally backwards. It's not playback that is following the score; it's the score that is following playback. "follow playback"?