Custom Actions with Similar Functionality as Reaper's (DAW) "Action List"

I finally had time to sit down with Musescore and compare them more in depth for differences.

|Dedicated Shortcut for Shortcut menu (In Reaper Action List) and add Reapers "Find Shortcut Key"|
I would like a Dedicated Shortcut (That can be customized as It should appear as "Show Short cuts" or if adopting Reapers terms "Show Action List" as a shortcut) (This is found in Reapers Action Tab in Musescores Top Left (Right of The options Tab)). for Quickly opening the shortcuts menu (In Reaper this is ("Shift" + "?")). I like the "search short cut" search bar as it is Reapers Equivalent to Filter in said pictures but I would also like another separate dialogue where it pops a dialogue input box open and you press whatever short cut key it is and it will A) Once a shortcut is released, (Not pressed as this will allow for stuff like Shift + ect.), close said dialogue box right away and take to to said shortcut if found with the Action highlighted in the list, B) If no action with what was pressed is found, then state to user no shortcut exist. In Reaper this is the Find Shortcut key in the top right of the action List. (This is also a decent place to put it. Where to put the "Search Shortcuts" header is listed below.)

~|Over arching Shortcut Tab in Preferences;|~
|Naming of Actions|
Also I find that there was not a lot of attention to detail with the naming of actions. I plan to make a post which I can link back here but what it is essentially is the Action should describe what it does. So if It's ((In context which I will link when the post is up)) (Picture of a quarter rest) followed by "Insert Rest" It's not clear on if it's inserting only a quarter rest or rest of duration (Which I found that that's what the delete key does by default). And Same with the Delete Key. A more appreciate name would be, "Delete note/markings/ ect of selected item(s)". That's one thing that makes Reapers Action list so robust as well. Because context can be a lot. To allow for it. They use descriptors like items which can be applied to context. Also this separates it from Scripts in Reaper. (They add more functionality kind of like Musescores Plugins). Ie. A scripts to add expression maps in reaper. Typically made by the community or integrated with Reaper from the start.

I like the idea of alphabetical Order, but When there are a lot of icons before Add [Insert action here] it keeps from my eyes scanning easily as it shift it over. I believe the Icons should be shifted over. One example is instead of; (As of Musescore 4.5)

Add Bowing: up bow
{ Add Braces to Element

Make it;

Add Bowing: up bow
Add Braces to Element {

(Or if so desired Replace Element with Item as it is less letters and denotes the same thing to the end user).
One more thing to note. A lot of Actions like the first 3 in the list have "..." and seems like they should expand when the window is bigger. Really there is no reason that those should be there as the action serves the same purpose without it.

About Musescore Studio... → About Musescore Studio

|Moving Define and Clear/how listed shortcuts can be handled|
As for "Define..." and "Clear" (Drop the "..." on Define or rename it to something like New Action (See Reaper pictures for context). I'd also recommend adapting Reapers Layout. So these would get moved to the bottom right and The "Search Short" (Please just name it "Search Shortcuts") Would sit above the Action header. This is more in line with web browsers and would be easier to find at a moments notice.

|Shortcut Selected Actions Box/how listed shortcuts can be handled part 2|
I really like how Reaper Handles Having multiple shortcuts assigned to one action. In the bottom left, we have a box that is auto filled with a few rows for new shortcut assignments. This box should do the following; A) When an action is selected/updated to new action, Show any shortcut key assignments associated with said action. B) 1 action per line. C) Must allow as many shortcuts as wanted (Typically 1 per default). If Box is full, (In Reaper shows 5 at first) Then has a scroll down for as many as defined. D) Must be able to highlight Shortcut in box and Add another one (Define key) Or delete highlighted action. E) Is not a replacement for Shortcuts Showing themselves at a glance on the right of the action in the list. If multiple actions are there. Add "..." to denote more actions are present. This gives the top most action in the lower left hand box a certain amount of characters to display in the list before the "..." (Reapers Shortcut list for said actions is too the left of the action but can be done on right side if preferred (current in MS 4.5). I believe they did it that way so the text of each individual action has more space to run on for more characters as the window is also resizable). F) Must state the purpose of the box. Reaper list it as "Shortcuts for selected actions".

|Actions Running|
As of now, because Musescores Shortcut tab is layed in Preferences, This is not possible. The "Run" or Run Action button found in the lower right of Reapers Action list allows for selecting an action, selecting said item if associated with it and allowing the user to run the action without closing the Action list. This allows for faster customizations of short cuts as the effect of the action can be identified then because it ran the action. Can be Ctrl Z if needed or allows the user to customize it as needed. The reason this prob isn't possible without moving the Shortcut list is because Preferences is where you edit IO such as Midi controllers and ASIO Drivers. Causing a stop/pause to said devices. That of course causes issues as it stops any actions from happening. As designed. Hence if implementing this. The above must be considered.

|New Action Button|
I like Reapers layout here as well. (Lower right). This allows Custom actions to happen, rather executing multiple actions in the form of a new action or custom scripts (Can be coded by users in reaper). This can be as robust and entirely depends on how open it is designed for users. (Besides stinging multiple actions together, for Scripts, this is kind of like Musescores Plugins). So should Musescore "Scripts" Should be considered. Now due to myself not using this function as often. (I just use extended scripts as people have most likely made them and posted them to the Reaper forum). Scripts Should be considered different from (Musescore) plugins as Plugins are there for Added Functionality when creating a score. Scripts are programs that execute there function. So For instance, in the context of Musescore. When exporting, you might make a custom script that exports midi, wav files/mp3/ and pdfs by generating there own folder tree and depositing them as needed. Because this is not a current feature in Musescore, it allows Users to make scripts as needed (Assuming they can pick up on how to code. This would need a folder in Musescores File tree for dropping scripts in and reloading Musescore. (This gets into having an "Options → Show REAPER resource path" button. and possibly Reapack which I won't go into here. (Basically allows users to streamline git hub repos)). Now while all of this is a nice to have for the "New Action" button. The start would be just let us make custom actions with actions already present. One last note on Scripts. https://www.reaper.fm/sdk/reascript/reascript.php This link will take you on information about Reaper Scripts for those wondering on how it's integrated into Reaper.

This sums up most of what I have to say/ differences between the two programs right now. If any one has any more questions. I will get to it when I can.

One Final Final Note

Due to the nature of how long this is. I revised this post as much as I can right now. Please let me know if anything needs clarification. Please feel free to ask any questions!

https://musescore.org/en/node/376166 Link to Num + Any number on num pad not working.