Show shortkey indications on note bar

• Jun 12, 2017 - 14:27

Musescore has a fantastic feature for users to switch around notes for input (i.e. 4=eighth note, 5=quater note, etc.). The hotkey is displayed when we hover the mouse over the button on the note bar.

I wonder if the dev team would consider adding a feature which allow the hover-to-show message to be always displayed along with the note bar, so that for less skilled users - like me - to be able to switch between notes for input more accurately and efficiently without tapping around the ten-key pad just to "guess" which one is which - because it's just difficult to remember what number associates to which note.

Many thanks.


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In reply to by Shoichi

If you're the admin/moderator of this forum, I'm more happy to see this is closed and not to confuse the team any further.

Plus, I'd pitch in an idea to this feature request, that besides showing the short key, the assignment of short keys might as a function of the time signature.

For example, for any /4 time signature, key 5 = quarter note, /8 time signature, key 5 = eighth note. This way the ten-key pad might be a little bit more intuitive for the users as the center key (5) represents the "base" note of the time signature. Number above 5 is a longer note, below is a shorter note with respect to the time signature.

That being said, some might think for those who don't rely or have the ten-key pad can't take this advantage, and programming-wise this is troublesome as when the user changes the time signature at the middle of his editing, then the representation of the shortkey's note will need to be updated. And even worse, what if the sheet has multiple time signature - does the shortkey's representation changes depending on where the user is editing?

Sorry for this too-long-to-read shit.

I like the idea. If you have some experience with SVG editing, you can play around with the icons here: https://musescore.org/en/node/219416 [EDIT: On second thought, changing the icons is no good, because the user can customize these shortcuts. It would have to be something more complicated to overlay the current keys on top of the buttons.] Either way, you can file a formal feature request in the issue tracker (http://musescore.org/en/project/issues).

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