Frames can have negative height/width values

• Sep 20, 2011 - 19:33
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

When double-clicking frames (horizontal, vertical, possible more) to adjust the size, they can be dragged negatively so they go backwards and invert. This has some interesting effects. Win7.


Comments

I guess the question about this feature is "why would you want to be able to drag them backwards"? This especially holds for horizontal frames. Dragging backwards makes the instrument name and curly brace overwrite the previous measure.

Title [ trunk ] R4807 Frames issues Frames can have negative height/width values
Severity S4 - Minor S5 - Suggestion
Status active needs info
Frequency Once
Regression No
Reproducibility Always
Workaround No

They can indeed have negative heights/widths but I don't see real problems with that. If you explicitly make a frame have negative height/width it's no surprise things will perhaps overlap. Perhaps the discussion should lean towards whether or not we should make frames be able to have negative height/width?

IIRC bad things happened back im MuseScore 1.x, but indeed nowadays it is just a feature rathwe than a bug?
I think that even in MuseScore 1 I (mis)used this to force overlapping.