Support: Elements Colour Change
Hello there!
In dire need of your help!
Software Ver: 3.5 RC
I was trying desperately to change my score's colour palette to a Dark Page with White Notes, Text, etc.
I changed the default colour in Preferences > Advanced, and it worked but not for the elements.
A newly inserted element (Hairpin, Fermata, etc.) will still show up as black
and I would have to manually change the colour of each element.
Then, I read through this tutorial: https://musescore.org/en/node/270327 which suggests that,
to change the default colour for the elements, you must do it through the MuseScore2.ini file,
but that also didn't work for the elements.
Anyone manage to break the code? I would very much appreciate some help in figuring this out
as the brightness is really demanding on my eyes, but then Windows' colour inversion,
or all them Night Light / Reduced Brightness settings, seem to be even worse.
Big thanks in advance!
Comments
Reopen opened scores to have this take effect on them.
I also noticed that my palettes remained in black, and indeed adding a line explicitly added it in black. I could then go into the inspector and "reset" the color for it to now also become the default color.
Interestingly, adding a staccato using the keyboard shortcut for it did/does enter it in the correct new default color; but the one from the palette remained black.
Then I noticed my workspace is called "Basic edited" because I have indeed added/reorganized some palettes. Changing to the "Advanced" workspace made a world of difference for the palettes.
So my theory is that for some reason, when changing a workspace, the element colors get baked into the palettes (which imho should only happen for elements not matching the default color) and those then act as an override for the default.
Another note is that text elements keep following the text style settings, which don't change when changing default color, so you might just want to create a default style file for that.