Make Inspector to support multiple things

• Oct 10, 2019 - 07:27
Reported version
3.2
Type
Ergonomical (UX)
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

When you select something, e.g. a note, you see on Inspector panel there are various options, e.g. visible checkbox, colour picker alignment checkbox, etc. However, can I select a few measures of notes and set a different option to all the notes in those measures? I haven't found a way to that.

When you select one note, the options are shown on the inspector panel. However, when you select more than one note, those options are not shown on the inspector panel.

I wonder, why not show the common related options for users to use, so that I can just apply my settings to all the notes I want without repetitions.

Similarly, can I select more than one textboxes and do the same on the inspector? At the moment, I see that you can't select more than one textbox. I feel that this is kind of working against intuitivity.

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• Oct 10, 2019 - 07:32
Status active ⇒ by design

Inspector does shows the settings that the various selected elements have in common. But in a range seletion that isn't much.
However, if in such a range selection you right-click e.g. one note heads, select all similar in selection, it shows those setting that apply to noteheads and you can change all in one go.

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• Oct 10, 2019 - 07:46

Not a lot can be done about, actually nothing. If you have a range selection there will be noteheads, stems, flage, beams, barlines, chord sysmbols, lyricsr etc... they don't have many settings in common, except visibility and color, and that's what the inspector shows

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• Oct 10, 2019 - 14:31

There is also a "Notes" button in the inspector that limits your selection to notes if you have a range selection, no need for right click, select...

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