Add "Delete Selected Measures" command to context menu
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
Hello,
I created .mscz file with 32 bars. Then I added some bars. After that the last bars (only filled with pauses) can not be deleted, even not a single bar.
See attached file.
Revision: 3c7a69d
Thanks
Thomas
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Comments
What goes wrong when you try? They delete successfully for me.
To delete a bar or range of bars, select and then press Ctrl+Delete (Cmd+Delete on Mac?). Simply pressing Delete alone deletes the *contents* of the bars only.
Please let us know if that solves your problem. If not, please givew us more precise step by step instructions to reproduce the problem.
As per https://musescore.org/de/node/114331#comment-514851 the problem seems to be the right-click menu, claiming that a simple Del deletes a measure, where in reality it deletes the content of the selected measures, not the measures themself, so far this is by design and consistent, the other entries, copy, cut, paste, are about content too.
I guess it would make sense to add another entry, "Delete measure Ctrl+Del"
OK, so this a feature request to add "Delete Selected Measures" to the right click menu, then. The command itself works just fine -invoked from either Ctrl+Del or Edit / Measure; but a third method might be desirable as well.
Well, turning it into a feature request seems the most sensible way to deal with this ;-)
Its is a pretty simple one-line fix, see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2657
Would it make sense to add the "join selected measures" here too?
And 'split measure before selected note' to the note context menu?
No, I wouldn't rush into that. There are lots of commands that are valid on selections - transpose, stretch, voice exchange, slash fill, etc- and the context menu would be far too cluttered if we added them all. Measure join/split is a rarely used (by most people) command and would not make the short list of commands worth adding IMHO.
Fixed in branch master, commit a136af32a6
fix #114366: add 'delete measure' to staff context menu
Fixed in branch master, commit 6461063b6b
Merge pull request #2657 from Jojo-Schmitz/delete-measure
fix #114366: add 'delete measure' to staff context menu
Fixed in branch 2.0.4, commit e592b0a905
fix #114366: add 'delete measure' to staff context menu
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
Why?
Because:
![Screen Shot 2016-12-28 at 3.21.35 PM.png]( "Screen Shot 2016-12-28 at 3.21.35 PM.png")
It got lost?
It got replaced by the "timewise" command. (https://musescore.org/en/node/126586)
Ah, yes, now I remember
came up again in #278051: Restore "Delete selected measures" options to menus
Together with the (IMHO good) suggestion to re-label the 'normal' "Delete" with "Clear"
I changed the priority of this one. Not having a simple way to delete a measure might be just a suggestion or a minor issue but the priority is high to solved it before release. Does that sound good according to the new issue tracker rules ?
Fixed in branch master, commit ecfaa4bdad
fix #114366, fix #279389, fix #278051: Add the lost Measure menu into the Tools menu
Add Timewise delete as a menu item into the Tools menu
Add "Delete selected measures" action into the measures selection context menu
The only difference with 2.3.2 is that calling Ctrl+Del(Cmd+Backspace) on elements range will call timewise delete, not the deletion of selected measures
"Delete" is usually found in the Edit menu...
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.