Mouse input - grid lines
I will suggest a better, faster and more intuitive way to enter notes and rests with the mouse.
If the musicpiece you are working on is subdivided in 1/8, you select subdivision in 1/8 and 8 grid lines (vertical dodded lines) appears in every measure. Left click=note input and right click=rest input. Musescore most automatically detect if a note or rest is dotted.
You work your way measure by measure and the measure you currently are working in is highlighted and enlarged. You can at anytime change the subdivision in the measure that is highlighted if needed. Tab=next measure and shift+Tab=previus measure. (or arrows?)
More development is necessary, but I think it's a much better way. It is used in Band in a Box
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Here is a YouTube clip illustrating how it works in Band-In-A-Box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twyl0qNMhBo
I guess the advantage is, you don't need to select durations, as they are calculated automatically? I could see this working OK, but it still seems much less efficient than the existing keyboard method of note input. Do be sure to read the Handbook section on note input - and/or watch the tutorial videos - to learn more about the various options MuseScore already provides.
Anyhow, it's definitely something that could be considered some day.
In reply to I guess the advantage is, you by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for your Comment, Marc.
I'm fully aware of that the keyboard method is the fastet, but not everybody has a keyboard (especially newbees) and sometimes you don't have your keyboard at hand. And also that there are shortcots and best practice. But I still think, that the mouse input method can be improoved. And yes you don't have to choose duration everytime you input a note or rest. I have used it in both BiB and PowerTracks and it is much more efficient and intuitive. I hope it will be implemented some day. I hope you understand my english.
I guess I bye myself a midicontroller
In reply to Thanks for your Comment, by Steen Pallesen
Actually, I didn't mean MIDI - I meant the keyboard on your computer. I don't personally find a MIDI controller to be faster, although some do. They have different advantages and disadvantages, but are roughly similar in overall efficiency. Either is guaranteed to be much faster than the mouse, because they are so much more precise (no guesswork as to exactly where you clicked) and involve less actual physical motion.
But indeed, it is possible to improve mouse input any number of ways. The way you mention will be familiar to BIAB users but seem odd to most others, there are probably other improvements based on how other programs work that will be familiar to users of those programs but seem odd to BIAB users, etc. It's worth discussing to try to find improvements that will provide the most benefit to the most users.