instruments visibility: be able to select all/none
I hope there would be a "visible all/none" box in "instrument" dialog.
When composing a music with many parts, it's helpful to be able to quickly switch between showing only one part and showing all parts. In the present "instrument" dialog, I can change the visibility of each part. But sometimes, when I want to focus temporarily on one part, making others invisible, I need to uncheck all other parts in the "instrument" dialog. And soon later, when I want to get back to the whole music, I need to check all the other parts. I hope we can have a "select all/none" option for the part's visibility.
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Making all instruments invisible with a single click is not a good idea. There would probably be a deluge of posts saying "My score disappeared" as a result. If the score is not too long with too many instruments extracting parts make viewing a single instrument easy. If you want to focus on the same instrument repeatedly, then extracting only that instrument should work well. With a long score and lots of instruments extracting all parts does tend to slow down MuseScore. In version 3.0 there is going to be a timeline that seems to make hiding and viewing instruments a bit easier than the add instruments dialog. It's more compact, but each instrument must still have its visibility changed.
In reply to Making all instruments… by mike320
Thank you for replying! I understand your concern, but I notice that the musescore app on iphone and android has a function dealing with your concern. When I uncheck all part, it will leave the top line visible, so I will never have a blank screen.
I mainly talk about a long score with a lot of instruments, like an orchestra. As for extracting parts, I also use it quite much, but the shorthand is I can't hear all other parts on playback. It's hard to adjust notes for one instrument without also listening to other parts, since knowing the balance is important when making the revision.
https://musescore.org/en/node/258746