Let right-click toggle between adding rests and notes

• Feb 18, 2019 - 19:25
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

Based on a number of discussions over the years where users expressed displeasure over the steps needed to adds rests using the mouse, I came up with a scheme to simplify this: allow right-click to add a rest if you are otherwise in note mode, or to add a note if otherwise in rest mode. I won't claim this is super discoverable, but it does streamline the workflow for mouse users who do learn about it. Eventually we could add a context menu to also allow selecting duration, but I think adding a rest still makes sense as a default action. PR forthcoming.


Comments

Wow, very good. Just tested and immediately approved! Why did we have to wait until 3.0 to implement this?! Over the years, I have almost switched to the all-keyboard, but it can and will do a great service. Please suggest other improvements of this kind!

It reason it waited so long is that no one thought to implement it sooner :-). But I don't know the rest mode still has value for discoverability. Maybe at least a new "tour" message that appears the first time you press the rest button?