Odd transpose behaviour

• Dec 31, 2015 - 20:10

2.0.2 - f51dc11

For some time now I have been seeing this. I do not have a series of steps as it is intermittent.

I have a lead sheet that I want to transpose.
I engage the transpose facility and the window comes up (See attachment).
The "Transpose chord symbols" button is not active.
When I change the transpose interval and then initiate transpose, nothing happens.
File also attached.

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MuseScore transpose.png 64.97 KB
After_All 2 C part.mscz 25.86 KB

Comments

I was able to solve this right now by deselecting the first two boxes, hitting "okay" and then rebooting MS.

This is the first time I was able to understand a way to fix it.

The transpose dialog works on whatever is selected. If nothing is selected, then it selects the whole score for you. But if you had selected just a single note, then it transposes just that note. And if you have a piece of text or something else other than a note selected, it will do nothing. I can kind of tell this is probably what is happening here because the option to transpose by key is greyed out - that's the tell-tale sign that you have not selected a range.

In reply to by xavierjazz

It is supposed to be the case that if nothing is selected, it will select the whole score. But that only happens if literally nothing is selected. If you have clicked a note or a dynamic or anything at all, that thing is selected, and the transpose will work on that.

You say a dialog came up saying the whole score would be transpose, but it doesn't look from your screenshot like this in fact happened - the greyed-out key selector and the lack of blue box around the score (barely visible behind the dialog) is what makes me say this. And I don't think that dialog even exists in the current version - I think that went away some time ago, although I could be mistaken. It doesn't appear for me in 2.0.2, I can say that. It just selects the whole score automatically. But if you are using an older version that does still have the diualog, maybe the dialog came up one of the times it *did* work?

Anyhiw, to summarize: if you want the whole score transposed, you need to select *nothing* (eg, press Esc), or select all (eg, press Ctrl+A) before starting the operation. What seems most liekly to me is that you had inadvertently selected something and that explains why the score wqas not selected, why the key selector was greyed out, and why nothing happened when you pressed OK.

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