Letter A not working for input notes in Danish keyboard layout. Bug and possible solution.

• Jan 7, 2024 - 11:06

Letter A not working in Musescore 4 when inputting notes (european keyboard), even on 4.2.0.233521125
Workaround should be: go to Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts, and define a custom shortcut for “got to top staff”. That will prevent it from being triggered by the phantom keycode your keyboard is sending.
That’s already fixed for
4.2, BTW."
The issue seems to persist on my Mac, danish keybord. The cursor jumps to the "Home" menu, and if I keep pressing "a" it circles between the home, pencil, notesheet tab and top of palette, that is, "a" acts in the same way as F6.
I have tried on 2 macs, 3 different keyboards, did clean install with deletion of Musescore4-folder and library application support folder. The video below shows the problem, and also that the "a" key works as intended in other software - that is, problem must be on Musescore side, not the operating system.
Video showing the error: https://screenpal.com/watch/cZV1DEVHHVl

SOLUTION seems to be to remove these lines from shortcuts.xml

    nav-next-section
    F6
    `

and

    nav-prev-section
    Shift+F6
    Shift+`

I don't know if these lines are specific for my installation, but looking in the shortcut dialogue of Musescore shows no shortcuts using ` or F6, which made me suspicious.

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