Dots don't appear on tab/full staves

• Aug 12, 2014 - 04:05
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

Ubuntu Studio 14.04, GIT commit: 47b4909

1) new score, electric guitar tab, 6-str full
2) note entry
3) enter dotted quarter note ("Shift+5 . 1")

Result: no dot appears

It seems the chord has dots == 1, and the layout code is dutifully trying to lay them out, but the dots themselves were never created (_dots[0] == 0).

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• Aug 12, 2014 - 16:32

Once upon a time, dots were 'built-in' into the Note object; then, the NoteDot object was introduced, but its creation was inserted in a point which, perhaps, makes sense in itself, but is in an execution flow which is entirely skipped for TAB's.

Looking for the better place to add it back...

M.

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• Aug 12, 2014 - 16:48

Yes, and it's possible that even worked at one time as ell. I believe the creation of dots was moved earlier at some point while I was working on layout improvements earlier this year, although I forget the exact details. I remember there was a point where I'd have wanted the dots but they weren't there yet, so I used some kludgy workaround. Something to do with the code for deciding whether to put dots above or below lines, maybe. Werner decided to rearchitected things a bit before merging my code, with the end result being that dots are now created somewhere different than they were, say, six months ago.

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• Aug 13, 2014 - 00:33
Status (old) fixed ⇒ active

Seems to work well for "common", but only very erratically for "full":

1) new score, acoustic guitar tablature, 6-str full
2) first measure, note entry
3) select dotted quarter as duration
4) "1 Right 1 Right 1 Right 1 Right 1 Right..."

Result: some of the dots show up, some don't. Obviously, some of these notes end up being tied over the barline and hence don't have ties - I'm not talking about those :-).

Seems erratic, like different results every time. But when I use debugger to show me the notes that should have dots but don't, I see the NoteDot element exists this time - now I guess it's the layout code that is failing.

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• Aug 15, 2014 - 16:41
Status (old) active ⇒ fixed

I can no loner reproduce, but I swear this was happening the other day! I'm marking this "fixed" again but adding it to my "watch" list to verify again before release.

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