Discrepancy between <return> and palette for manual system breaks
If I click to select, e.g., barline 10 and hit return to insert a system break, then the break goes onto barline 10 -- the previous system ends with bar 9 and the next one begins with bar 10.
If, instead, I drag a system break from the palette and drop it such that the anchor is on bar 10, then the break goes onto barline 11 -- the previous system ends with bar 10 and the next one begins with bar 11.
Now, that's not a super-serious issue -- just remember to drop the break a bar earlier than you think you should -- but it's not up to the level of polish that the rest of MU is striving for. While dragging the break, there's a very clear dashed line pointing to the nearest barline. Anybody would read that as "when I release the drag, this is where the thing is going to go" but then it goes to the following barline. Why is the drag anchor pointing to the wrong place?
Has this been logged before?
hjh
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If this happens in 4.5.2 it is a regression to earlier versions and probably a bug ...
I can't reproduce.
BTW you don't drop a system break from the palette onto a bar__line__ but into the bar/measure
Or select the bar/measure or barline (!) and click on the system break in the palette.
Been that way ever since (well, old versions (2.x?) required a double click there)
In reply to I can't reproduce. BTW you… by Jojo-Schmitz
@HildeK I've definitely seen it in 4.5.2.
@Jojo-Schmitz "BTW you don't drop a system break from the palette onto a bar__line__ but into the bar/measure"
Concretely, then -- in the screenshot, if a user doesn't know the history, how are they likely to interpret the dashed line and the position of the red dot?
Intuitive meaning: The thing you're dropping is going to go here. (And this is how it works for time and key signatures.)
Actual meaning: The thing is going to be associated with the entire measure highlighted in blue, and take effect at the end of that measure.
Another way to say it is that there are two visual cues being given, and their intuitive meanings conflict. (One can be trained to resist the intuitive appearance, but part of user-friendliness is intuitiveness.)
hjh
In reply to @HildeK I've definitely seen… by jamshark70
Guess I never noticed that anchor. Not having used drag and drop of palette items in a dog's age