Retain Selection on Nudge

[commnthings]

E5.0.2 Win

Back with E4.5.5, when I select a note and then Nudge it (up/down or right/left) the note remains selected. Now, with E5.0.2W as soon as I Nudge it the selection is lost and I must re-select the note in order to Nudge it a second time.

Actually, the selection is lost if you perform almost ANY action.

BUG!

Thanks,

Bob

[Nor]

I confirm it too, BUG

[q]

If I recall correctly, this problem existed briefly on the Mac too. Perhaps introduced in code that effected both platforms, but only fixed on the Mac?

q

[Rob M.]

For what it's worth, I note that a selection is retained when the selection is made by a drag selection, i.e., by dragging a highlighted selection box across whatever is wanted in the selection. This permits repeated nudges in various directions without having to re-select.

I'd also prefer that a selection made by shift-clicking on a note was retained, even though it occasionally led to operations on unintended notes when I neglected to cancel the previous selection in E4W.

I think the behaviour for shift-click selection of notes I'd like to see is:

click (or double-click) on a note to select it
shift-click to add additional notes to the selection
click-selecting a note cancels any previous selection if is not a shift-click

It would also be helpful to be able to cancel a selection (of either type) by hitting the ESC key.

[q]

For what it's worth, I note that a selection is retained when the selection is made by a drag selection, i.e., by dragging a highlighted selection box across whatever is wanted in the selection. This permits repeated nudges in various directions without having to re-select.

I'd also prefer that a selection made by shift-clicking on a note was retained

Hi Rob,

I checked both forms of selection when I made my last report. Presently both work on the Mac—the selection is not lost after nudging.

q

[Rob M.]

I checked both forms of selection when I made my last report. Presently both work on the Mac—the selection is not lost after nudging.

Let's take that as a hopeful sign -- i.e., what's been fixed in the Mac version will shortly be fixed in the Windows version.

[q]

I checked both forms of selection when I made my last report. Presently both work on the Mac—the selection is not lost after nudging.

Let's take that as a hopeful sign -- i.e., what's been fixed in the Mac version will shortly be fixed in the Windows version.

I recently remembered (rediscovered?) that although shift-double-clicked notes display as highlighted they fail to nudge upon command. After a pitch-nudge command (or regular nudge, for horizontal placement) they loose the appearance of being selected.

This is logged as a bug.

q

[polarbreeze]

I recently remembered (rediscovered?) that although shift-double-clicked notes display as highlighted they fail to nudge upon command. After a pitch-nudge command (or regular nudge, for horizontal placement) they loose the appearance of being selected.
This is logged as a bug.
q

The bug, I think, is that the function shift-double-click for notes (as distinct from measures) is undefined in the first place. So it needs to be defined. The choices are:

1. Do nothing, ie don't select (or highlight) anything.
2. Do the same as shift-single-click, ie select the note for nudging etc.
3. Select the whole measure even if the clicking is done right on the note (ie behave the same way as for measure selection).

Any one of those can be justified in some way. Your suggestion, #2, may be the simplest; but I would advocate behaviour #3 because I'd like to be able to select a whole measure without having to pay attention to avoiding the notes when I do the clicking (especially if the measure is densely populated). Furthermore, shift-double-click really ought to work to select a full measure even if no measure is selected already. (Right now, you need to do a simple double-click to select the first measure and shift-double-click to select subsequent ones).