Inspector - Time Signature: "Show courtesy“ usability issue

• Jul 11, 2015 - 13:01
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Once
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Steps for reproduction:

  1. Create a score.
  2. Add a line break after one measure.
  3. Change the time signature of the first line to 6/8.
  4. Change the time signature of the second line to 4/4.
  5. Find that a "courtesy" time signature has been added at the end of the first system.
  6. In trying to remove it, select it, open the inspector and find "Time Signature: Show courtesy" checkbox.
  7. Uncheck the checkbox and realise nothing happens.
  8. Search the internet for a possible explanation and stumble upon https://musescore.org/en/node/56611#comment-260751.

Possible solutions I can think of

  • Have the checkbox take effect. (I wonder why it doesn’t but I suppose there is a reason?)
  • Hide the checkbox for courtesy time signatures. (Might still be non-obvious/unintuitive to users they have to select the "real" time signature to remove the courtesy one.)

Comments

• Jul 11, 2015 - 15:43
Status (old) active ⇒ needs info

The checkbox should be greyed out and is for me in a curreent development build. If you can reproduce this in a nightly build, please post the specific score you are having problems with. There have been some corner cases where the grey-ing out doesn't work properly, but it should work in general and did for me when i tried following your steps. Of course, you lose the line break after step 3, so I added it back. Your screenshot shows notes already entered, so I suspect you managed to hit the corner case from something else you did above and beyond what is listed in your steps. If you find a reliable way to reproduce this,. please post the score and/or full steps.

BTW, from your image, it seems you might prefer to simply disable courtesy time signatures completely in Style / General / Page.

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• Jul 11, 2015 - 15:57

Thanks a lot. You are correct on all points.

I will have to report back with more reliable steps of reproduction for when the grey-ing out doesn’t work.

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• Dec 5, 2019 - 09:18
Status needs info ⇒ closed
Type Graphical (UI) ⇒ Functional
Frequency ⇒ Once
Regression ⇒ No
Reproducibility ⇒ Once
Workaround ⇒ No

Closed due to lack of information. Please report, with precise steps to reproduce, in a new thread if this still troubles you in the latest version (3.3.4).

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