Panning to spot in sheet music to high light where the last change was
Musescore has been quite dandy with helping me be able to compose a song so far. However, there's times when I make changes and then decide I don't like them and want to undo the last several changes. However, when hitting the arrow button to undo the last move, it would be if the sheet music panned to show the note where I undid the last move, so I can see what change I undid or know all the changes I undid by going several moves back (or undoing several moves) if that makes sense...otherwise, I can't see what change was undone if it's was done on a different page/ place in the sheet music... and it would be a bear to attempt to find the last edit for each undone move just to figure out what move or change I wanted to go back to.
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Agreed. At times I will hit a button by accident and not know what, if any changes were made, so I hit undo but get no feedback as to what has been undone. It would be nice if there were some feedback telling what has been undone, at least put the location on the screen.
I definitely agree. Most text editors already work this way. Can you file this as a feature request at http://musescore.org/en/project/issues?
I think this would be very useful. I too sometimes do undos that I cannot track.
I took the liberty of logging the feature request, https://musescore.org/en/node/270553 . This has been bugging me too for a very long time. Thanks for pointing it out.
I also managed to find a workaround of sorts:
When you "lose" your cursor or highlighted note, you can get the screen to pan to the highlighted note by pressing the left/right arrow keys.
In reply to I took the liberty of… by Riaan van Niekerk
I also managed to find a workaround of sorts:
When you "lose" your cursor or highlighted note, you can get the screen to pan to the highlighted note by pressing the left/right arrow keys.
Only if the last operation was on a note. If it was text or a symbol, you are out of luck.
In reply to I took the liberty of… by Riaan van Niekerk
Thanks guys and thanks for doing the feature request... : )
Another thing I sometimes noticed was if one tries to change a note, sometimes, it will change the whole page around and you can't even see what note you are changing. Not sure if anyone else has encountered that either. :P
In reply to Thanks guys and thanks for… by Adria Sorensen
Not sure what you mean, but it is true that sometimes a change will be just enough to cause a measure to no longer fit on the current line, and it will wrap to the next line, just as sometimes typing a letter in the middle of text will cause a word to no longer fit and it will wrap to the next line. That much is perfectly normal. But since measures are generally much bigger than words and you can fit far fewer of them on the screen at once, the same exact effect can be more disorienting for music than text.
Weird, it seems I have seen this work at times, but now I'm not. Maybe I was really using the cursor workaround. Anyhow, agreed this should work as described.
In reply to Weird, it seems I have seen… by Marc Sabatella
Actually, I am seeing this again. Whether or not the score automatically pans back to the scene of the undo appears to depend on the sequence of operations being undone. Weird.
So, Marc. As someone who knows the way forward best, do we just hope someone who can code, notices the bug report and finds it interesting enough? Suggest that people currently on this thread (and anyone else who thinks it is a good idea) post a comment to be subscribed to it?
In reply to So, Marc. As someone who… by Riaan van Niekerk
There is no specific process for this sort of thing, although that is being discussed elsewhere on these forums. Sure, subscribing to the issue is not a bad idea. But there are lots of bugs and feature requests out there waiting to be worked on; this seems neither more nor less important than any of hundreds others.
Knowing the code, I suspect it won't be an easy change to make without making a change to how undo info is recorded. Meaning it might be something other developers will prefer to leave to Werner.