[trunk] Unable to edit staff instrument names (regression)

• Nov 2, 2010 - 03:12
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
won't fix
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Steps to reproduce bug
1. Open bach-bc2 demo (or any score with instrument names)
2. Double click on the instrument name "Trumpet" (in front of the first staff)

Expected behavior: Trumpet should now be editable text

Actual behavior: Nothing happens

MuseScore version: r. 3661 nightly trunk

(Operating System: Windows 7)

Comments

• Nov 2, 2010 - 08:35

Instrument names are created (and deleted) automatically in MuseScore. They are a property of the actual selected instrument and can be edited in the staff/instrument property menu. Previous versions allowed to edit instrument names directly in the score and did some special handling to update all instrument names to the edited one.

The problem was that it looks like you were able to modify a single instrument name. But you could not, which sometimes produces some confusion.

Unfortunately the old implementation had some problems with undo/redo and would require more special handling.
So i favour of a clean user interface model i removed this functionality.

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