Instrument name appears for solo instrument after changing instrument

• Oct 6, 2013 - 23:32
Type
Functional
Severity
3
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

1. Create score with one instrument.
2. Right-click stave.
3. 'Stave Properties...'.
4. 'Change Instrument...'.
5. Choose another instrument.
6. 'OK'.
7. 'OK'.

Expected result: Instrument name doesn't appear.
Actual result: Instrument name appears.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (2b0d24d) - Mac 10.7.5.

Comments

• Apr 18, 2014 - 23:38

I'd note that this would fix itself automatically if we switched to a scheme where the name is always present but an option suppresses its display.

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• Apr 19, 2014 - 00:53

I think there needs to be a way to display then name or not display it, regardless of how many instruments. So automatically hiding it for single-instrument scores is not good.

Rather than have an option "display instrument name" that the code would have to set differently for each score, another possibility is a simple style option that always defaults to true: "hide instrument names for single instrument scores". Then the user could set it false if he wants.

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