Mismatch between context menu and actual action?

• Jan 25, 2020 - 13:10

When I select an item (e.g. a stem of a note), move the cursor to another item and open the context menu I see a number of actions defined for the item under the mouse. However, if I choose such an action, the action is executed for selected item, not the item under the mouse what I expect.
To demonstrate this
1) Create a score with two quarter notes.
2) Select the stem of one of these notes.
3) Next move the cursor to the stem of the other note.
4) Open the context menu and select Flip Direction.
Now you see the selected stem is flipped, not the stem under the cursor. This quite counter intuitive. In a lot of cases nothing happens because the selected operation is not defined for the operation (e.q. select some notes but use the context menu on a key signature). This can cause some unexpected errors in your score because you use the context menu to change something, not realizing there is still an selection active somewhere which receives the action.

My question is: Is this a feature or a bug?


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