Not possible to move more than one rest at a time with up/down arrow keys
If you select more than one rest at a time, and try to move them with the arrow keys, nothing happens. You have to use the offset in the Inspector instead. It is only possible to move one rest at a time with the up/down arrow key.
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Yes, would be nice to move several rests at a time!
Works just fine for up and down, for left and right it works only in the inspector. Left/right requires edit mode and you can't double-click 2 rests and have them both in edit mode
In reply to Works just fine for up and by Jojo-Schmitz
Ciao Jojo.
If I select a rest / all similar elements and I hold down Alt Gr (the key to the right of the spacebar), I can move all rests at a time dragging with the mouse.. So it is normal?
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In reply to Ciao Jojo. If I select a rest by Shoichi
Guess it is, but you can't with the left/right arrow keys
As far as I know, that's just how it is in general for all elements - edit mode only works for individual elements. There is no facility to move multiple elements at once except using the Inspector. And it would be disastrous if mulitply-selected rests would respond to the cursor up/down - that would mean every time you selected a range and used up/down to transpose the notes, the rests would move too.
In reply to As far as I know, that's just by Marc Sabatella
up/down does move multiple selected rests (list-select, not range-select). But not left/right
In reply to up/down does move multiple by Jojo-Schmitz
Not really. Up/down *transposes notes* within a list or range selection. That's not the same as moving them, and it's *only* notes - not rests, or any other elements - that are affected in that way, for good reason. Otherwise the transpose fucntion would be all but useless - it would be impossible to transpose a range without also moving other elements that have no business being moved.
In reply to Not really. Up/down by Marc Sabatella
Strange, now they don't move, I'm sure they did when I tried earlier.
Ah, I see, I list selected rests, and first used the inspector to move them, then the arrow keys. And didn't notice that the arrow keys now are connected to the spinbox...
In reply to Strange, now they don't move, by Jojo-Schmitz
Right, meaning you *can* move them using arrow keys - you just to so by way of the Inspector. That's actually almost the only way I ever use the Inspector.
Yes, I should have clarified that it ws only in an up/down direction I was thinking of. The position of rests in guitar music can often overlap with notes in the other voice so it's natural that a user might want to multiselect a group of rests and then use the up/down arrows to move them.