Range select -> "Notes" button in the Inspector: behavior with grace notes
If a range is selected, naturally the Inspector is mostly empty, because multiple different types of elements are selected. The "Notes" button that then displays in the Inspector will change the selection to a list selection of all the notes in the range, with the idea that one type of element will be selected and Inspector options can be applied to all of them. However, if the range selection includes any grace notes, this basically fails: notes and grace notes are selected, and the Inspector does not update. Is this intended behavior, or a bug? If a bug, what should the expected behavior be?
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As I recall, there was a bug where bad things happened if you edited the "segment" properties for a grace note, so I think there was a deliberate choice to exclude grace notes from selections of this nature. Something like that.
In reply to As I recall, there was a bug by Marc Sabatella
Possibly you misunderstand: grace notes are not excluded from the selection, and it seems that they should be.
In reply to Possibly you misunderstand: by Isaac Weiss
Well, as I said, "something like that" :-). The idea being, the "correct" behavior ended up causing a serious problem, so a compromise behavior was substituted that somehow avoid the problem. I think I am thinking of #33341: Change trailing/leading space of segment if grace notes are selected causes crash.
In reply to Well, as I said, "something by Marc Sabatella
So, if a grace note is distinguished from a normal note (which I would argue it already is in a number of ways, even before this specific coding distinction), shouldn't it be excluded from this particular selection function? Otherwise, the only way to fully enable the Inspector is to go through and one by one [Ctrl]-click/[Cmd]-click each grace note to take them out of the list selection of notes.
In reply to So, if a grace note is by Isaac Weiss
Well, it's not the only way - select all similar et all still work, and these exclude grace notes. But sure, I could see why the Notes button should prpbably be consistent with the other selection methods. Feel free to file an issue.