Cannot move item when multibar rests are shown

• Sep 27, 2018 - 08:16
Reported version
2.3
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project

When multibar rests are shown: system text, rehearsal marks, lines contained within the multibar rests cannot be moved. You have to turn off multibar rests then guess their new position and then re-enable multibar rests.

I think I should be able to move items contained in multibar rests.

To clarify, I can select the item, but when I move it it springs back to it's original location (while multibar rests are enabled).

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Comments

That's because so many items are close together. Move one selectable item down (or up) a bit (temporary), and you will be able to grab other things and move them.

I understand the selection part, however, you can select the item to move, but after moving it just springs back to it's original location, you can only move it when the multibar rests are not enabled.

Status (old) active duplicate
Status active fixed

Yes, the number "1" shown in the example is a giveaway. Normally you wouldn't use multimeasure rests for single measures, and in that normal case things work fine. But if you do enable multimeasure rests for single measures for whatever reason, there is indeed this glitch. So this is a duplicate of the bug report mentioned above.

Should be perfectly possible, in 2.3 at least (haven't tried in 3.0). For instance, use the default untitled score, enter system text in any measure, press "M". You get a multimeasure rest starting at that measure.