cresc/dim colour setting has no effect

• Mar 27, 2019 - 20:09
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Version: 3.0.5

Setting the colour of a cresc./dim. (without line) has no effect, even though it is saved…

--- a/music/free/Mendelssohn -- Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt (SATB, arr. Nauhaus).mscx  
+++ b/music/free/Mendelssohn -- Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt (SATB, arr. Nauhaus).mscx  
@@ -3633,12 +3633,14 @@
             <HairPin>
               <subtype>2</subtype>
               <veloChange>23</veloChange>
               <endText></endText>
               <lineVisible>0</lineVisible>
               <placement>above</placement>
+              <color r="85" g="255" b="255" a="255"/>
+              <color r="85" g="255" b="255" a="255"/>
               </HairPin>
             <next>
               <location>
                 <measures>1</measures>
                 <fractions>-1/4</fractions>
                 </location>

… it does not show up in the UI or an exported PDF.

Comments

• Mar 27, 2019 - 21:17

I was naïvely expecting the text to change colour.

Funny, I didn’t even find a way to change the colour of the text.

(Just in case this is still misunderstood: this post is about “cresc/dim text (with/‑out line)”, not about “cresc/decresc fork”.)

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• Mar 28, 2019 - 14:38

Yes, when I make the line visible it’s coloured.

There appears to be currently no way at all to change the colour of the text.

However, in the inspector, there are separate colour choosers for “Element” (Color:) and “Line” (Line color). I’d expect the first one to affect the text, the second the line (except for the 𝆒 𝆓 forks, where there is only the line).

Expected: change Element colour changes Line colour and affects text colour, changing line colour decouples it from the element colour setting and affects only the line colour.

Actual: changing one changes the other, too, and only affects the line. (This is what I’d expect in the forks (subtypes 0 and 1), not in the texts (subtypes 2 and 3).)

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• Mar 28, 2019 - 14:47
Status needs info ⇒ active
Priority ⇒ P2 - Medium

I would agree, there seems no way to affect the text color right now (not even via the text style). Using the overall element color to control text color makes sense to me.

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• Jun 22, 2022 - 11:13

Encountered this bug today in current version (3.6.2), exactly as described in mirabilos's post.

Elements affected: Crescendo line, Diminuendo line

Issue: There is no way to change the color of the text (by default it's "cresc." and "dim.") in the Inspector.

Details: For these elements, there are two color values that can be set in the inspector: Element Color and Line Color. Currently, both of them affect the color of the line, but not the color of the text.

Proposed solution:
- Have Element Color allow the user to set the color of both text and line, while Line Color would allow to set a different color for the line only.

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