Selection with Ctlr + click is broken by clicking on the canvas

• Jul 21, 2017 - 15:21
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore
Tags
3.0alpha
3.0alpha-06
notations

3.0 dev. c8a0d9d / Windows10

This feature/fix implemented here is broken: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/commit/e63fdbaee8169c5ce383a04fd…
It was to fix: #32106: CTRL+click no longer de-selects

So:

1) New score -> Enter some notes
2) Hold Ctrl and click on the two first notes
3) For the next one, by inadvertence/clumsiness, click elsewhere on the canvas or not exactly on the notehead

Result: all notes all deselected. Back to square one! :(

Comments

• Apr 2, 2018 - 17:16

FWIW, I implemented a change to Ctrl+Click behavior that hasn't been merged but that I would really like to see. See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2622. The idea is to enhance Ctrl+click to also cycle through overlapping elements, which are currently hard to select. My PR produces no change in behavior in the usual case, but if multiple elements happen to be stacked on top of each other, then while the first Ctlr+click selects the top element normally, the second Ctrl+click in the same location will not only deselect it but also select the element underneath. I also included a slight tweak to how this works with respect to stems versus noteheads - so the area of overlap "belongs" to the notehead rather than the stem as it does now. This should make it easier to select notes at small magnifications where currently, one often ends up accidentally selecting the stem.

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