Staff Text button disappears
Background: Takes a few times to reproduce but I would hardly say it is random as I can always get it to happen. Note I have the Palettes panel visible all the time. I'm writing some rhythms for my daughter just using Treble clef and using "Staff Text" a lot to notate how to count, but often the button disappears after a short while and I have to restart Musescore to make the button appear again.
1) For example create a handful of measures with all Eighth notes.
2) Assign "Staff Text" to each note for counting (e.g. rename notes to "1", "+", "2", "+", "3", "+", "4", "+").
3) Now select the first note in the measure and add another "Staff Text" element. Rename it to "Count me".
If notes are rather close together, this usually causes one or more previously set text values (e.g. "+ 2") to become positioned above the new text "Count me".
4) Now rectify the vertical position of the new "Count me" (which is on the bottom) by selecting it, and then holding UP arrow until it moves a considerable distance up. Note this also pushes the "+ 2" text up with it.
5) Now select "+ 2" and use SHIFT + MOUSE (red dots and lines appear) and drag it down until it arrives at or close to its original position. (sorry, cannot get screenshot of that)
6) Using the same select/shift/mouse method, drag "Count me" down until you get it just above the "1 + 2" text you first added.
It usually takes a handful of times in repeating this procedure, then suddenly in the Palettes panel (I don't know precisely when), the button "Staff Text" will be all white and no longer functional.
Version: 3.5.2.311459983
Revision: 465e7b6
O/S: Windows 7
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Comments
Are you using drag & drop to apply the staff text? If so, then this is a known glitch that happens occasionally for reasons we don't understand, since no one has a good set of steps to reproduce it. Not just for staff text but for any palette item, occasionally (like once every 100 drags), the cell goes blank immediately upon the drag&drop. In these case, what you do later has nothing to do with it, but it may be you just didn't notice until later. Or it's possible what you are seeing some new bug that really is specific to what you do with the staff text after dropping it.
In any case, it should fix itself if you change workspaces and back (use the control at far right of toolbar) or if you quit and restart MuseScore. Also, if you 8are* using drag&drop, note that this glitch doesn't happen when using any of the other more efficient ways of adding staff text - simply clicking the palette, using the shortcut Ctrl+T, using Alt+RIght to move from note to note while you type the text, etc.
In reply to Are you using drag & drop to… by Marc Sabatella
Yes, I do often drag from the button and drop on the first note. If I can find more consise and repeatable steps then I will update this issue. Thanks for the recommendation on short cuts. I'll try them as well.