Note entry not appearing (Solved)

• Jul 22, 2012 - 09:35

Hello to this forum!

I´ve been using MuseScore a while now, and for a open source program it´s very versatile. As I don´t really need any orchestral libraries, it does pretty much everything I need from a notation software.

I have had a bit of problems with MuseScore though. Overall it seems to be a bit buggy, but I can live with that, as I am not a professonal note writer of any kind. Still it´s annoying sometimes.

The latest bug I´ve had is that the note entry doesn´t appear anywhere. When I tick the note entry from the show menu (or what ever they are in english - thank you by the way for the finnish translation!), nothing happens. The note entry doesn´t appear anywhere. The problem might be that I have been using external display, and the note entry palette has been "left" to the another display. Now I don´t have a chance to test this with another display as I am traveling with only my laptop.

I´ve been able to use MuseScore now from a different user account of this computer. There the software works normally. Still it would be nice to use MuseScore from my own account... Is there a way to reset this software? Or is there any other way to fix problem? The problem might be a little and a stupid one, but still it makes the program unusable for me. I´ve re-installed the software, but it seems to remember all the settings anyway.

I´m using a MacBook with 10.6.8, and MuseScore version is 1.2.

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• Jul 22, 2012 - 10:48

You probably already know all of the following, but let's start from the beginning and assume you have created a new empty score with the "File | New" menu command and start with:

1) Select a note or a rest in the score (in this case a rest, as the score is still empty)
2) Press the "N" icon in the "note entry" toolbar (the toolbar at the top of the screen which contains an upper N icon, icons for note values, dots, accidentals, ...) OR press the [N] key
3) A blue vertical bar is shown right before the selected note or rest.
4) Simply typing note values (keys [1] to [9]) and note pitches (keys [A], [B], [C], ... [G]) should enter notes.

Which part of the process is not working for you?

If things get very out of control, there is always the option to revert to factory settings , but let's leave this as last option, as with it you would loose all the customizations you may have done to MuseScore.

HTH,

M.

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• Jul 22, 2012 - 12:11

Thank you for the reply! The problem is that the note entry toolbar (with the letter N and the notes) doesn´t appear anywhere on the screen. I attach a screenshot here. As you can see, the note entry is ticked (nuotin syöttö in finnish), but there isn´t a toolbar or palette anywhere.

The second thing by the way is that I´ve done something weird, and the document opens twice on the screen (you can also see that in the attachment). If I try to close one of those projects, they both close.

Propably I´ll just try the factory settings, and see if that fixes the problem. Strange though.

EDIT: I solved the other problem. The answer was quite obvious, I unticked Dokumentit rinnakkain/Dokumentit päällekkäin-options.

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• Jul 22, 2012 - 12:47

I am afraid this is somehow Mac-specific and I only use Windows and Linux.

Can you try rlght-click on the empty area at the right of the toolbar? (using your screen shot as reference, it could be for instance in the emtpy area above the leftmost " [X] Reunion_example" blue box, at the right of the "repeat" icon).

Assuming most things work in Mac as they work in the other OSes, a menu should drop down listing all the toolbars (4 of them + "Palettes" ("Paletit"?)); if it does, clicking any of them should toogle its display / hide status.

Any Mac user out there can offer other suggestions?

M.

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• Mar 4, 2016 - 04:38

Are you asking how to do something? This thread is from four years ago; it is not very likely to be related to whatever problem you are having. Better to start a new thread and dexcribe in more detail what you are having trouble with - eg, what you clicking, what you expect to see happen, what happens instead.

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