Double click should still edit footer and instrument name
Double clicking on footnote should open the Style > General > Header, Footer, Numbers dialog. Likewise double clicking an instrument name should open the Staff Properties dialog. It would be even better if the corresponding text within the dialog was automatically selected (to visually cue the user).
Discussion: Ideally footnotes in MuseScore would be directly editable in the score (similar to Microsoft Word, and all other text in MuseScore). Editing the text inside a separate window is one level of abstraction (away from WYSIWYG). However if double clicking a footnote or instrument name opens the text editing window, it becomes consistent with text editing of other texts and will significantly reduce the support burden when MuseScore 2.0 is released. We have already had a number people ask why they can't edit the copyright text anymore, even with the (typically advanced) users of the nightly builds.
MuseScore version: 2.0 trunk, r.5536 nightly build.
(Operating System: Windows 7)
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Agreed.
This report is still relevant with MuseScore 2 Beta 1. We can't select the footer with a single click nor can we double click it to edit the text.
A PR has been created for the instrument-name part of this request. https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/5886
With https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/5872 laying the ground work for fixing this for header/footer too
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/5887 second part done
In reply to https://github.com/musescore… by Sergios - Anes…
Way to go Folks! :)
Fixed in branch master, commit 3b8f10389e
fix #16077 part 1: Double click an instrument name to open the corresponding menu
Fixed in branch master, commit 17deeb54cb
_Merge pull request #5886 from SKefalidis/dc-iname
fix #16077 part 1: Double click an instrument name to open the corresponding menu_
Fixed in branch master, commit c5be1af3ba
fix #16077 part 2: Double click a header/footer to open the corresponding menu
Fixed in branch master, commit 81662a270e
_Merge pull request #5887 from SKefalidis/dc-footer
fix #16077 part 2: Double click a header/footer to open the corresponding menu_
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.