No Numeric Keypad Note Duration Selection

• Dec 16, 2022 - 02:24
Reported version
4.x-dev
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
duplicate
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

It seems like it is no longer possible change note duration on a keyboard's numeric keypad in Windows 11. I have tested on multiple PCs. Main keyboard numbers work as expected.
This is a core function for me, especially when composing/transcribing away from home on my laptop. It has alway been possible in every version of MuseScore I've ever used. This seems like a very basic thing to overlook, but it is perhaps understandable that something like this would slip through with all the major changes going on.
Please fix in the next update.
Cheers,
MNM

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• Dec 16, 2022 - 03:34
Workaround No ⇒ Yes

It seems the keypad is populated with TAB note duration input shortcuts.
As it seems you can't have multiple shortcuts for an individual function, I edited the keyboard shortcut XML file.

NOTE: editing shortcuts in preferences does not work for numeric keypad. If you enter a keystroke on the numeric keypad, it just enters a raw number ("1"), not a numpad shortcut ("Num+1"). Therefore, edits must be made in the XML file.

Workaround:
1. Delete (enter and empty value) TAB and regular note duration shortcuts in Edit > Preferences > Shortcuts (search "duration" to filter results).
2. Export XML file for keyboard shortcuts.
3. Edit in Windows WordPad (or whatever text editor).
4. Search: "note" to find note duration shortcuts (specifically, for instance: "pad-note-1" for a whole note/semibreve).
5. Enter "Num+1" etc. for note durations.
6. Import XML file in Edit > Preferences > Shortcuts > Import.

Example (1 = whole note/semibreve):

    pad-note-1
    Num+7
Attachment Size
MuseScore Shortcuts-EDIT.xml 31.5 KB

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• Dec 17, 2022 - 00:43

Thank you. I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing... but I seemed to have followed your steps well enough for it to work.
I have become very fast with the numeric keyboard and changing my input style was not something I wanted to do. Although I've had the alpha and beta programs on my desktop for several months, they have been unusable for me without the Numpad. I was hoping the new released version would have fixed this, but the problem persisted for me. Your fix, which I'm sure is pretty trivial to "real" programmers, was pretty complicated for this musician. I got it working and this is GREAT!
Kudos to the MuseScore4 team for having a versatile shortcut system!

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• Dec 18, 2022 - 02:39

Thanks for the workaround, this does work!
An example of what the file looks like and where to find the edits to make the numeric keypad work is below.
If you've previously cleared the entries in preferences, you'll have to add the entire line ... below the ... line.
note-breve is a "double whole note" and note-longa is a "quadruple whole note".
pad-note-1 is a whole note, pad-note-2 is a half note, etc

    note-breve
    Num+8


    pad-note-8
    Num+4

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