Note duration shortcuts don't work

• Apr 19, 2013 - 13:31
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

MuseScore 725882fcdb Windows 8 - French keyboard

  1. Create new score
  2. select first rest
  3. press N
  4. press 6

Toolbar doesn't change to half note.

Commenting out the "TAB specific shortcuts" from shortcuts.xml makes it work. Actually, even commenting the <code></code> lines makes it work.
Shift + # is not a valid shortcut on a french keyboard since numbers are accessed with Shift already. Shift + 2 is also already used for inserting interval up.

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• Apr 21, 2013 - 17:54

There are also problems with a standard QWERTY US keyboard. See #20834: Number pad no longer works.


The number pad no longer works to select a note duration or to enter a rest with 0. only the top row numbers work which are much harder to use by feel. I should add that I am using the standard QWERTY keyboard used in the US.

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• Apr 25, 2013 - 10:12
Status (old) active ⇒ needs info

Might be relevant or not but, for the new shortcut system to work, previous customisations to shortcuts have to be removed: otherwise the customized shortcuts take precedence over the built-in ones and 1) the new shortcuts are skipped 2) the old and the new system assume different activation states for several shortcuts. So, a mess is likely to result.

The customized shortcuts are kept in a file:

*) Linux: ~/.local/share/data/museScore/MuseScoreDevelopment/shortcuts.xml
*) Windows: well, can't find it!

Can you remove or rename this file and retry?

Thanks,

M.

P.S.: The "Edit | Preferences... | Shortcuts" has a "Reset to Default" button (actually it has TWO of them: the lower one is the right for this) which should remove the above mentioned file, but apparently it simply crashes the program...

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• Apr 25, 2013 - 12:30

I deleted both directories
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\MuseScore
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\MuseScore
so shortcuts.xml should be gone. Still the shortcuts for note duration doesn't work in a normal staff.

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• Apr 26, 2013 - 11:52

On Windows 8. French keyboard
- num pad doesn't work at all
- top row works, without using Shift except for 6 and 8 (dash and underscore) (like in MuseScore 1.3)

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