Navigation Slider
There should be a slider to navigate through the sheets in editing mode. I know there is a navigation window but it takes too much of my screen and it is not as handy as a slider where you can scroll line by line neatly. Is there already one which I just have to activate? If no, I don't like the fact that I always have to go back to the viewing mode to scroll. I'm using a laptop, by the way. Thanks!
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If you are using a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can use it to scroll vertically, and Shift + Scroll wheel to scroll horizontally.
In reply to If you are using a mouse with by [DELETED] 5
Most laptop touchpads can also be configured to do this - either with ctrl-swipe, two-finger swipe, or perhaps a special "scroll zone" along the edges or the pad.
I join the request. Musescore should have an option to create an index for the score, where you may pick a page and/or a bar and the program would jump right to it. this should be very easy to do, and it would save us a lot of sliding around.
In reply to I join the request. Musescore by HolyEyE
Ctrl + F and enter the measure number.
In reply to Ctrl + F and enter the by [DELETED] 5
Oh. I meant a visual index. Say, one that shows up every time u click and hold Tab and takes up the whole screen, but I guess ctrl + F is good enough as long as I remember the measures' numbers.
In reply to Oh. I meant a visual index. by HolyEyE
Whatdo you envision this "visual index" looking like? How would it differ from the existing Navigator, which can be made as big as you want and can also appear at the touch of a button?
In reply to Whatdo you envision this by Marc Sabatella
It could be something like
In reply to Whatdo you envision this by Marc Sabatella
Now that I look at it, much of what I wanted is already there, but I can see why I chose not to use the Navigator when I first got the program: Firstly, you need to reach F12 twice with your left hand. Secondly, it doesn't really help you find anything because it's either too small (http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp355/holyeye13/Untitled-1-17_zps854…), or there are too few pages (http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp355/holyeye13/Untitled2_zpsa220e9c…), depends on how you resize the Navigator.
Here is my vision of what I think would be a better visual index (or navigator):
http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp355/holyeye13/IndexMusescore_zpsbd…
Of course, It wouldn't be exactly like that.
After making this I figured it's probably a bit more complicated than I first thought, but let's speak of the future here: you have to admit it's more fancy, and more efficient.
In reply to Now that I look at it, much by HolyEyE
So, I might described it as a somewhat redesigned version of the current Navigator - one that arranges page thumbnails in a grip rather than a single horizontal row, and that shows a preview of whatever page you select? So I guess it requires one click to bring it up, another to select a page from the thumbnail grid, and a third to click somewhere in that preview to take you directly to that spot on the page? If the score is, say, 50 pages long, woild you envisipn all 50 page thumbnails in the grid at pnce, or maybe a dozen or so at a time with scroll bars or other controls to access more? Maybe a "thumbnail" size slider that allowed to to control this?
I could imagine a couple of fairly simple refinements to the existing navigator that would produce more or less the same overall effect.
First, realize that no one forces you to use F12 as the shortcut for the Navigator - like most shortcuts in amusescore, this is customizable in edit / preferences / shortcuts. So let's not worry about changing that.
Second, the main issue is that the horizontal orientation of the current Navigator doesn't lay out the screen efficiently, so even if you wanted to allow a grip layout of thumbnails rather than the current horizontal layout, it would really gain you much unless you made it full screen. And if you made it full screen, you'd lose the view of the current page. Right now, you're think of the preview as a separate thing, but I say, why not just use the main score view as that? It's already the case that selecting a page on the navigator loads the page right away, so why make that worse - the two step process you are apparently describing, where you first select he page to load a preview, then click a spot on the page to load the main viewer? If the main viewer *is* the preview, then so much the better, no?
As far as I can see, then' all that's really needed here is a way to make the Navigator split the screen vertically rather than horizontally, amd to arrange the page thumbs in a grid rather than lonearly. The linear layout makes sense given the "move the blue rectangle" model for navigating, but change it to "click a thumb" and
Truth be told, I'm not sure I see the proposed navigator being much better - just different. So I'm not sure I'd see replacing the current navigator with a new versipn to be an improvement. it woild be at least as mich of an inconvenience just to et use a different way of working. and I rather like the fact that the current horizontal design allows me to have a pretty useful navigator - with very small page thumbs, and hence quite a few visible at once - always on screen (I almost never hide it). But having having both types of options would be nice. And while generally I know there is resistance to the idea of providing lots of different ways of doing the same thing - creates potential for confusion, plus twice as much code and twice as much documentation - if it was really thought out as just another mode of the current navigator, that might make it more palatable.
In reply to So, I might described it as a by Marc Sabatella
You make good points. That's why I added that the design and function wouldn't be exactly the same.
I forgot to mention, notice that with this version you may use the slider to find your page - which is a lot faster.
Counting the clicks won't do much, since in the current navigator you just hold the mouse until you find your desired location.
Why would you need a preview if the navigator moves to the location in real time? When writing a composition you zoom in on measures many times, then when you try the navigator, it stays zoomed in. Here it will let you zoom in/out automatically to the selected measure/place.
However, I agree with you that it's not that much better and it's not worth the time. What I really want to see is a key that I can hold for the navigator to appear, then disappear. It's not my idea, In Windows you hold Alt + Tab and get the right tab, In Photoshop, you hold space and move where you want to. In Firefox you click and hold the slider to get to the desired location on your page.