Select All / filter selection by Inspector property
It would be great if there were a way to select all similar elements that have a certain value in common for a property in the Inspector.
For example, if I have a score with lots of red text and lots of blue staff text, and I want to make all the blue text green, then I would click on some blue staff text and use the option to "select all elements with the same value for this property" next to colour in the Inspector. I would then change the colour for those elements to green, and the red text would remain red.
Similarly, I might want to select:
- all invisible notes
- all lyrics with a vertical offset of -9 (i.e. above the staff)
- all text with the "Technique" text style
- all dynamics with a velocity of 33 (pp/pianissimo)
The last point is particularly useful, as currently there is no way to select all dynamics of a certain type.
We might not want to clutter the Inspector with lots of extra buttons, so another way to implement this would be to have one additional button to go into a kind of "selection mode" within the Inspector. Clicking the "selection mode" button would reveal an extra button/checkbox next to each to Inspector property to "filter by this property".
There could potentially also be a way to select all elements that do NOT have a particular value for a particularly property (e.g. "select all elements with a non-zero vertical offset"), or that have values that fall in a range (e.g. "vertical offset less than -9") or from a list (e.g. "staff text that is either Technique or Instrument Change style").
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Just as a report, something like in the image
https://musescore.org/fr/node/271726#comment-832732 ?
In reply to Just as a report, something… by Shoichi
A bit like that, but not exactly. Someone had to write special code to allow you to select all hairpins with the same velocity; their code only works with hairpins, and it only works with velocity. I'm saying it should exist by default for every property in the Inspector.
In reply to A bit like that, but not… by shoogle
hairpins with velocity ?
In reply to hairpins with velocity ? by Jojo-Schmitz
That's what the screenshot says. I assume it means velocity change.
In reply to That's what the screenshot… by shoogle
In that conversation (https://musescore.org/fr/node/271726) I was referring to adding custom hairpins to a workspace and how to select them...
In reply to In that conversation (https:… by Shoichi
Maybe, but only the image is relevant to this discussion. Clearly that dialog box has been mislabelled, but I wasn't blaming you for that ;)
In reply to Maybe, but only the image is… by shoogle
Yes, that is indeed mislabled