Hide Empty Staves Creates Havoc
Hi,
I'm using 0.9.5 on a Mac OS 10.5.8
I've been using Musescore for some time and coming to grips with it's quirks, however the Hide Empty Staves issue is one I can't find a solution for. When I lay out my score with 2 or more staves, I set out the music in the way that looks good (eg: 4 bars per system). Then I may have a number of staves in the score with no music in them. I go to Edit Style - Score and select Hide Empty Staves. The result is a complete mess. Nothing is vaguely readable.
Is there a fix to this problem, or is there another way to make these staves disappear in the score. (Don't suggest making the individual bars disappear as this is not a true fix).
Attached are the before and after images of what happened after Hide Empty Staves was selected.
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Comments
If you want others to investgate the problem please attach the score you are having difficulty with.
Have you tested whether the same problem exists in the prereleases ?
Here is the file I'm working on....
In reply to Hide Empty Staves Creates Havoc by jozzbeat
There is a bug. It looks like the "hide empty staves" determines whether a staff is empty by looking at voice 1 only. If you have full measure rests throughout voice 1 then it hides the staff even if there are notes in other voices. See http://www.musescore.org/en/node/3702
The workaround is to select the measures with notes in voice 2 and whole-measure rests in voice 1 and choose Edit > Voices > Exchange 1-2. (See attached).
In reply to There is a bug. It looks like by David Bolton
Thanks David for the solution. I see it was fixed over night in the latest release. We are on Macs here, any idea on when this latest release with the bug fix will be available for Mac?
In reply to Hide Staves Bug by jozzbeat
I will make a prerelease for mac as soon as possible
There are currently a couple of critical bugs in the trunk and so you may have this bug fix but with some others really annoying crashes. So I prefer to wait a little bit more.
Prerelease are announced on facebook or Twitter and on the forum.