Results when using arrows to change pitch (b and #)

• Jan 20, 2019 - 23:44

I just started using 3.0 and so far I like it.
However there is one detail that was the same in 2.x that I hoped would be changed.

I find that when I am in a flat key (say Gb) and I want to add a sharp because of the changes I want to use there (say an F# instead of a Gb), and I write an "F", when I use the up arrow, it doesn't go to F# but rather Gb again.

I have to write the F, got to the accidentals at the top of the desktop and use the mouse to add the sharp.

I think the accidentals should ALWAYS loop through all options, not omit some because of key sig.

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• Jan 20, 2019 - 23:53

I don't want to have to press key after key to cycle through all of the enharmonic accidentals to get from A to B.

A up arrow = Bbb, up arrow = Bb, up arrow = A#, up arrow = A##, up arrow = B

I wouldn't want that.

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• Jan 21, 2019 - 06:35

FWIW, it used to work that way (up arrow on F in Gb would spell as F#) several years ago, but there was almost universal complaint about it, so it was changed and there hasn't been a single complaint since until now :-). I figure about 95% of the time the current behavior is what I want - F# in the key of Gb will be extremely rare, Gb extremely common. if the arrow keys were only used to adding accidentals things might be different, but as it is, the arrow keys are used for lots of other situations where you would not want F#.

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