Create custom palette - mouse middle button not responding
Hi!
I'm trying to figure out how to create a custom palette. I try to follow these instructions given by Werner http://musescore.org/en/node/1580#comment-8053:
"For this first create a new palette using the palette context menu which can be seen after pressing a palette button for more than 1 sec. After making the palette editable, you can drag elements from the score using the middle mouse button to the palette. Select a note and create an staff text (Create->Text->Staff Text). Then drag this staff text to your new palette."
I'm using a vanilla xp setup with a plain 2-button Logitech usb wheel mouse (no special drivers, just xp plug-and-play). I can get middle button response in other programs by pressing the wheel, but in MuseScore, when I "wheel-click" and drag the staff text, nothing happens.
Any idea how to solve this?
I guess that it's perfectly possible to add the symbols by creating and editing a proper mscore-palette.xml. Is there any documentation or discussion thread pointing out how to create a custom mscore-palette.xml, and what options there are?
Regards / Jonas
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On windows you don't need to use the middle button. Click on a palette and hold you left click for a second or two. The menu will appear. In my opinion, custom palettes are one of the less tested feature in MuseScore. Just for you to know ;)
In reply to On windows you don't need to by [DELETED] 5
Thank you, lasconic, but the problems is not to create the palette (works fine by leftclicking/holding!),
but to drag symbols to the palette! According to Werners instructions this shall be done using the middle button...
In reply to No probl creating the palette, but how to drag symbols to it? by cambiata
Those instructions mystified me when I read them, too, but then I forgot all about it. Something about the "middle mouse button" just didn't read right, as that's not a standard functionality available to everyone.
I'm very interested in custom palettes, though -- custom anything, actually -- and I'm hopeful that this information can be explained.
In reply to I'm glad you asked the question, cambiata by [DELETED] 448831
Am also interested in editing palettes. I'd like to add a custom glissando item to the "Arpeggio & Glissando" palette, but have not been able to manage it so far. Is editing/customizing palettes a supported feature in MS1.1?
In reply to No probl creating the palette, but how to drag symbols to it? by cambiata
If you open the Symbols Palette (F2) you can drag symbols from that to any palette enabled for editing.
That middle button thing definitely doesn't work in 1.1
I gather the instructions were for a version prior to 1.0 going by the article date.
I'm wondering if there has been any fix made for this yet... I'd love to be able to edit the palettes, but cannot do it because my mouse doesn't have a third middle button that I can configure this way. Is there another way to drag an item to a custom palette? THANKS!
In reply to Middle Mouse Button for Custom Palettes by jhanson_30
I think Shift+Ctrl+drag works.
It does in the 2.0 nightlies.
Haven't tested it in 1.2
HTH
Michael