How to deactivate the 'Automatic placement' for text objects

• Nov 8, 2019 - 15:00

I have created a plugin to show harmonic intervals in counterpoint exercises. On MuseScore 2.3.2 it do this:

but MuseScore 3 automatic placement do this:

The result that i wanted is the first. So, how to deactivate the 'Automatic placement', by plugin code?

Thanks.

Comments

jeetee

• Nov 8, 2019 - 15:28

You can set the autoplace property of an element to false.

Although perhaps you're rather looking to put position to the value of Below rather than the default Above for Staff Text.

Marc Sabatella

• Nov 9, 2019 - 21:10

Indeed, much better to simply set it to below (the internal property is Placement, BTW, but I don't know how it's called in the plugins) than to mess with resorting to disabling autoplace and manual placement. With autoplace enabled and palcement set to below, you may not need manual adjustment at all - the collision avoidance will stack the numbers for you.

Rogerio Constante

• Nov 12, 2019 - 17:37

Hello,
i've tried both solutions: to set 'autoplace' property to 'false'; to change 'placement' property to '1' (below).
The 'autoplace=false' solution works fine. The below placement (with autoplace = true) still have problems.

So, I'm using the first solution.

Thanks.

Marc Sabatella

• Nov 12, 2019 - 20:15

I guess that's a matter of the spacing being too tight to fit the text without collisions. In which case, turning off autoplace will indeed allow the collisions, but personally I'd rather just increase the spacing.