Saving/reloading score after editing a dynamic causes linked elements to lose edits

• Sep 14, 2021 - 21:43
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S2 - Critical
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

1) create a score with a linked extracted part
2) add a dynamic to the full score
3) edit the dynamic text
4) observe that it appears to have correctly updated the linked part
5) save, close and reload score
6) observe that linked part dynamic has reverted to original dynamic

Appears to be due to Dynamic::endEdit() not updating the dynamicType for linked elements, which causes saving the dynamic to ignore the xmlText.

Also interestingly no matter what you modify the dynamic text to (e.g. from p to pp) it always sets the dynamicType of the edited element to "other", rather than whatever matches the text you typed. This would have consequences with exporting to musicxml etc., and obviously the default velocity applied.

Comments

• Sep 15, 2021 - 06:11

The fact that nobody's noticed until now suggests it isn't really all that critical. I guess it's pretty rare people edit the text of a dynamic after creating a linked part extract. And you haven't actually lost your edits, it's just that they're only saved for the dynamic that you edited directly.

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Fix version
4.1.0