The Harmony Properties dialog has been rendered ineffective but also unnecessary by the chord symbol changes for 2.0. I intend to remove it. Alternately, I could leave the code in place but have it made available only with the "-e" option.
Can anyone suggest a reason not to simply remove it (as opposed to hide it behind "-e")? I asked on the forum as well recently - http://musescore.org/en/node/23581 - but got no response.
Right. That's a new feature that we definitely want to have working some day, as it would really add value and give you direct WYSIWYG control over the rendering of chord symbols that you can't get any other way aside from hand editing of XML files in a fairly arcane syntax. But the Harmony Properties dialog is a holdover from the past. I doubt most people ever used it (I certainly didn't), but it did at least save you the trouble of trying to guess which spelling would give you some particular chord symbol you wanted. With the new chord symbol parser, there is no more need for guessing - type how you want, it comes out as it should.
So my claim is this serves no useful purpose any more. But as someone who never used it in the first place, I was hoping for input from someone who did, to explain why they found it useful and hopefully confirm they wouldn't need it any more.
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Can anyone suggest a reason not to simply remove it (as opposed to hide it behind "-e")? I asked on the forum as well recently - http://musescore.org/en/node/23581 - but got no response.
I don't really mind either way, but the chord editor just recently had been move behind the -e
Right. That's a new feature that we definitely want to have working some day, as it would really add value and give you direct WYSIWYG control over the rendering of chord symbols that you can't get any other way aside from hand editing of XML files in a fairly arcane syntax. But the Harmony Properties dialog is a holdover from the past. I doubt most people ever used it (I certainly didn't), but it did at least save you the trouble of trying to guess which spelling would give you some particular chord symbol you wanted. With the new chord symbol parser, there is no more need for guessing - type how you want, it comes out as it should.
So my claim is this serves no useful purpose any more. But as someone who never used it in the first place, I was hoping for input from someone who did, to explain why they found it useful and hopefully confirm they wouldn't need it any more.
I was using to see what chords are available, but that won't be needed anymore, so I'm fine with let it go...
Fixed in b4a03f01b9
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.