Take The Fun Test!

• Feb 1, 2025 - 02:27

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• Feb 1, 2025 - 08:45

Yes, that naming is confusing, but the vertical frame's sizer sizes it vertically, while the horizontal frame's sizer sizes it horizontally.

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• Feb 4, 2025 - 17:11

Agreed. The naming always struck me as vague, and fails to reflect all use cases.

The Handbook implies a better name for Vertical Frame by describing it as Full-width rectangle. There would be no confusion if MuseScore renamed the object a Full-width Frame.

And clearly, MuseScore's "horizontal frame" functions as an inline frame. So I'd vote for calling it an Inline Frame.

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• Feb 4, 2025 - 20:38

I don't think I like that "Full-Width Frame" for a name. You could make a "Horizontal Frame" be the full width of the systems, but that wouldn't make it act like a "Vertical Frame".

I simply remember it that a "Vertical Frame" separates systems (or staves?) vertically, while a "Horizontal Frame" separates measures within one system horizontally.

"Inline Frame" works, but you'd need to find an appropriate complement for it. ""Out of Line Frame"??? I don't think so. Pairing "horizontal" and "vertical" makes it clear that they are doing similar things, in different directions.

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• Feb 4, 2025 - 21:04

Isn't there already a different thing called a "Spacer"?

[A few moments later] Ahh, there it is. A "Staff Spacer".

I note that the icons on the buttons for the "Vertical Frame" and "Horizontal Frame" make it very clear what they do.

*shrug* I just don't think it's an issue once you understand it. And every applications has things that are unintuitive until you understand them. And the things that are unintuitive to you are not necessarily the same things that are unintuitive to me.

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