A score with no measures is different from an empty score, a score with no notes, just rests. Playing silence is OK and even art (John Cage, 4'33" for piano)
A score without measures is not really a score. Hitting playback works, but stops at the very same moment.
So shouldn't the playback button grey out if there's no measures? "Starting and ending at the same moment" isn't so good to look at and greying out explains more clearly, just like if there's no scores opened all edit buttons (and playback button) grey out.
(And 4'33" "can be dedicated to any or any group of instrument(s)", which seems to be from Cage himself.)
It might, but why, what's the use? What the use of a score without measures? What's the damage done when not greying out the playback button? What would a grey playback button convey that an entirely (!) empty score (even no page at all, if there are no frames) doesn't already?
Seems this is more of a solution in search of a problem.
Besides that is not what chen lung was after, which is a score with no notes, just rests, And that indeed should play, even it it plays just silence. Just like John Cage's piece...
> Currently, if you play a score that has no notes on it (even as you enter them), it will do so infinitely until you stop it.
> Checking MuseScore 2.0 nightly build (4156), playback is disabled if a score is empty.
Nonetheless I think he meant a score with no measures...
That 'plays infinitely' seems fixed since ages, (in 2.x, not in 1.x still exists in 1.3)
A score without measures in 2.3.2 behaves the same as in 3.2.3: playbck stops the very momemt you start it.
A score with no measures in 1.0 and 1.3 crashes on playback, so he can't have meant that.
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Checking MuseScore 2.0 nightly build (4156), playback is disabled if a score is empty.
However, I think it should now be greyed out.
Well for now, the button doesn't grey out but it cannot be clicked either. Don't know whether this suggestion is still valid.
A score with no measures is different from an empty score, a score with no notes, just rests. Playing silence is OK and even art (John Cage, 4'33" for piano)
A score without measures is not really a score. Hitting playback works, but stops at the very same moment.
In reply to A score with no measures is… by Jojo-Schmitz
So shouldn't the playback button grey out if there's no measures? "Starting and ending at the same moment" isn't so good to look at and greying out explains more clearly, just like if there's no scores opened all edit buttons (and playback button) grey out.
(And 4'33" "can be dedicated to any or any group of instrument(s)", which seems to be from Cage himself.)
It might, but why, what's the use? What the use of a score without measures? What's the damage done when not greying out the playback button? What would a grey playback button convey that an entirely (!) empty score (even no page at all, if there are no frames) doesn't already?
Seems this is more of a solution in search of a problem.
Besides that is not what chen lung was after, which is a score with no notes, just rests, And that indeed should play, even it it plays just silence. Just like John Cage's piece...
In reply to It might, but why, what's… by Jojo-Schmitz
> Currently, if you play a score that has no notes on it (even as you enter them), it will do so infinitely until you stop it.
> Checking MuseScore 2.0 nightly build (4156), playback is disabled if a score is empty.
Nonetheless I think he meant a score with no measures...
That 'plays infinitely' seems fixed since ages, (in 2.x, not in 1.x still exists in 1.3)
A score without measures in 2.3.2 behaves the same as in 3.2.3: playbck stops the very momemt you start it.
A score with no measures in 1.0 and 1.3 crashes on playback, so he can't have meant that.
In reply to That 'plays infinitely'… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, it was that bad for poor old 1.3 :-o
In a cover page 'score' for an album I had to resort to hide the (single) measure that score had, as removing it completely didn't work back then
In reply to In a cover page 'score' for… by Jojo-Schmitz
> A score with no measures in 1.0 and 1.3 crashes on playback, so he can't have meant that.
I can imagine the cause being executing something like
measure->playback()wheremeasureis anullptrXDFixed in branch master, commit 25bcdfd3e5
fix #9906: fixed changing the stem direction for a group of notes
Fixed in branch master, commit fe09254ada
_Merge pull request #10290 from RomanPudashkin/change_stem_direction_fix
[MU4] Fix #9906: Changing stem direction for note groups in Properties is broken_