Command Pad-dot not valid in current state

• Mar 11, 2015 - 21:25
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project

Hello,

"Command Pad-dot not valid in current state" message when i try to put point in text box.

Windows 7

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Gai-Luron


Comments

This issue appears there is two days, March 9.

With this Nightly, entering a point in a text box works (without Ctrl): 9726d8e

After seeing, the cause might be a side effect of a following Nigthly (the message mentionned is now displayed) ? 1af29ba

FWIW, I had looked at that PR a while ago when I was trying to fix a related issue with tuplet creation. I don't think I saw that it had this bad effect. But if we do revisit this, we could maybe revisit the corresponding tuplet issue as well.

Well, if you (@lasconic) see a discussion about PRs on IRC as pressure...

Would be interesting to find and fix that strange side effect. Is it about something being wrong with shortcuts, and the . in texts wrongly being taken as a shortcut?

I am sorry that my PR introduced this bug.
Actually, it was just to cope with a minor problem, so we can happily go on without that change.
I investigated a little this shortcut clash. I think the problem was in unconditionally enabling the "pad-dot" and "pad-dot-dot" actions at lines 308-309 of keyb.cpp:
getAction("pad-dot")->setEnabled(true);
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/2f8840d2fd/mscore/keyb.cpp#…
I introduced this to re-enable the action after it was disabled for a 128th note. But it seems that this enables the shortcut for the action also when it should not be used (for example text_edit mode).

I'm investigating into this too, and with @lasconics help I think I found something that seems to be working:
Adding into MuseScore::changeState() (and remove those 2 setEnable() in keyb.cpp):

else if (s->key() == "pad-dot" || s->key() == "pad-dot-dot")
a->setEnabled(!(val & STATE_ALLTEXTUAL_EDIT));

@Jojo-Schmitz:
Thank you for the further investigation.
Have you checked that after the actions are disabled when highlighting a 128th note or rest (in normal and note_edit mode), they are enabled again when highlighting a note (or rest) with a different duration?
I remember I introduced those lines because the buttons were remaining disabled.