Wtf is wrong the the 8va thingy.
Under the "Pitch" palette, you have 8va alta, 8va bassa, 15ma alta, etc. These tools used to operate perfectly in previous updates, but recently they started acting F**KED UP. Whenever I adjust them, they jump around all over the bars away from my cursor and are essentially unuseable in this regard. The start point (indicated by the left pink dotted line) also refused to move when I adjust the 8va position. But even when I do get them to start and end where I want them to, the end point refuses to go to the absolute end of a line of bars.
If any developers see this, I'd greatly appreciate if y'all would look into why this recently started happening. Thank y'all for reading if you did
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Which version of MuseScore ? (if needed, check in menu Help / About Musescore Studio)
As usual, a plea to attach the actual score (.mscz file) - not just a picture of the problem. The score contains so much more information for people to deduce the cause of your problem.
In reply to As usual, a plea to attach… by DanielR
If 4.4.2, works as expected by holding Shift + right arrow (no drag with the mouse)
Hi: I've started having problems , now with 8va Bassa. When I insert it, it doesn't show the dotted line - the three boxes for extending/moving the line appear to be on top of each other. I tried copying and pasting an existing (extended) 8va Bassa from my score but the line disappears. I tried taking off AutoPlace. No joy. I appreciate that my score is a bit weird for various reasons. I am using Muse Score 4, but not the very latest update..... File attached below - 3rd page of music, 2nd system, near the end! Any help gratefully received, as always. Tom
In reply to Hi: I've started having… by northplainste
I am guessing that the problem ottava is the one on the bass clef on the low G-D chord, immediately after the bass clef symbol? On that assumption ...
After some fiddling, I noticed a dotted line, extending left from the 8va bassa. When I click on the ottava, this line is highlighted as well. When I change the Line style on the ottava, the appearance of this line changes. In addition, this line disappears if I delete the ottava. I cannot determine where the line goes: it goes off-screen to the left and, if I try to scroll left to see it, it disappears when the ottava scrolls off the screen ... even when I zoom out, it goes off the page and off-screen to the left.
However, after the fourth or fifth time I deleted the ottava (and then undid the delete), the line disappeared and never returned, even when I went back to the original download file.
If I delete the ottava and re-add one from the palette, it re-appears the same way: with the handles superimposed, but without the line off to the left. I tried copying and pasting the ottava from the third note to the left (the low C). This pastes the ottava over both those last two chords in that system, but I note that it does not display the end hook, no matter how I change that setting. The status bar shows this copied ottava extending from m.9, b.23.5 to m.10, b.2, while the original ottava extends from m.9, b.23.5 to m.9, b.24.
IOW, I have no idea what's going on here :-) Hopefully my observations will point someone else in the right direction?
In reply to I am guessing that the… by TheHutch
Thx so much: I guess, on reflection, it's to do with my stupidly long bar, coupled with 2 voices and lots of pedal "furniture"...... I tried a work-around: divided the line into sensible (small) bar lengths and copied/pasted the material in. The 8va Bassa reappeared and behaved fine. Then I had to delete all the the new time sigs and the barlines - a nuisance, especially because, for some reason I don't understand, you have to delete the treble and bass parts of the barlines separately, (which is why I used the whole-system-sized bars in the first place)! Thanks again. Tom
In reply to Hi: I've started having… by northplainste
It seems that a quarter note may be too short a note value to show the dotted line. When I make that note a half note , then the line shows.
In reply to It seems that a quarter note… by bobjp
Thanks bobjp, I found a work-around:)