Regression: Cannot enter rests via mouse on drum staves

• May 11, 2017 - 14:30
Reported version
2.1
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S3 - Major
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

I can't add a rest to my old scores, after I have update it to 2.1. When you try to add a rest, by tab "N", select a note, and then set it, to be a rest, I can't insert it in my score. And it doesn't work either, if I make a new score.
I have tried to re-save my old score, and tried to copy my old score over to at new score, but nothing works.

I uses Battery Percussion, or what was called, "Marching Percussion", before the update I think, and I think the bug only appears here. It works fine with other instrument, like piccolo.

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• May 11, 2017 - 15:04

Please share the score with exact steps to reproduce.

In General you don't add rests, if there is a note alreads, you delete the note and it'll turn into a rest. No matter which version of MuseScore you currently use or once used to create a score.
But selecting a note, pressing "N", then "0" too replaces that note with a rest of the same length.

Drum entry might be a different thing though

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• May 12, 2017 - 03:23
Title Problem with rest in old scores ⇒ Cannot enter rests via mouse on drum staves.
Status (old) needs info ⇒ active

I'm guessing you are attempting to enter a rest by clicking in your score with the mouse? This doesn't work for drum input. Instead, use the keyboard to enter rests - press "0" to enter a rest of the currently-selected duration. This has nothing to do with old versus new scores, but it is different from 2.0.3, and I don't think it was intentional.

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• May 24, 2017 - 09:56

Hi Marc
I have the same issue
Before version 2.1 I could use a mouse click on the rest button to put a rest on the stave
I.e click on the note value (say a quaver) then the rest button and a quaver rest would appear when I clicked on the stave
I have never had to use the keyboard, but done everything by mouse clicks
Is there anyway to reload version 2 (before the update)?
Thanks Pete

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• May 24, 2017 - 14:07

But I strongly recommend against it. For one thing, entering rests by keyboard is actually a lot easier than mouse - just press 0 instead of first clicking the rest icon and then clicking on the score and then clicking the rest icon yet again. And 2.1 fixes tons of bugs and adds quite a few useful new features. So reverting to 2.0 actually is a pretty big step backwards.

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• May 29, 2017 - 21:14

The problem is definitely with this fix:

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/commit/f0a50b5656c1941563f336897…

It does address the problem it was supposed to address (#112431: Crash in note entry mode in drumset, but unfortunately also has this side effect.

Master, as mentioned, doesn't actually crash - it just adds the requested note despite the rest icon being selected. This is the same behavior as standard staves, so I'd propose reverting* this commit and then addressing the crash differently - by making sure we set a valid pitch.

*We probably can't literally revert because the code in question has moved from edit.cpp to noteentry.cpp

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