Automatic switching to note entry repositions score
Whilst editing a score (e.g. changing note durations) MS often helpfully decides to flip me into note entry mode. This is distracting enough, but when this happens the score is scrolled to a new position, frequently putting the current measure under my soft keyboard, which is needed on my tablet device. So I must constantly hit esc to exit note entry, readjust the score position so that I can see what I'm doing, reselect the the note of interest, and resume. I just went through a longish score where I replaced a series of whole note bass notes with quarter notes. Every time I changed a note this happened.
It is possible that I will figure out some other way to do this particular task that avoids the flip to note entry (though most would seem to involve keyboard shortcuts, not convenient on the tablet) but I wish I could a) disable automatic note entry and b) disable automatic scrolling. Perhaps there are already some settings that will help with this?
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Not that I know of. I guess one could be added, but personally, I'm open to the idea of just not automatically jumping into note input mode after a duration change. I guess sometimes that is what I want, but pretty often not, and it's easy enough to enter note input mode myself if I want.
In reply to Not that I know of. I guess by Marc Sabatella
+1 on Marc's comments. Having the program jump into Note Input mode without me telling it to do so is more often an annoyance than a helpful thing.
Added issue #117231: Remove automatic note entry after duration change
I don't see when or where MuseScore jumps into note entry on uiration change. It doesn't for me
In reply to I don't see when or where by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm having trouble duplicating this duration change behavior, sorry. I may have conflated two sets of symptoms, or found some corner case. However, I still think that it is undesirable for the system to change modes automatically, entering a state where mouse and key actions have different meanings. That seems to make the UI less reactive. In my case, it results in often accidentally entering extraneous notes that must be deleted. At any rate, the automatic repositioning remains an issue.