musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Double-clicking a placeholder field should automatically select the field's contents
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Description
Your idea
When double-clicking on a text field in a new file, it simply places the text cursor where the user clicked. This is fine if a user is modifying text that they had already entered, but when double-clicking the placeholder text (i.e "Untitled score") it would be better if the text was automatically selected so that they can immediately begin typing.
Problem to be solved
Rather than placing the cursor into the field when double-clicking a placeholder element,
It should instead highlight/select the placeholder text so the user can immediately type their own value in without having to first delete the placeholder data
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Research direction
Start by locating the desktop editor code that handles double-clicks and placeholder text such as "Untitled score". Check the existing text-field behavior and add or update focused tests if the project has coverage for it. Done means double-clicking placeholder text selects it for immediate replacement, while existing text retains normal cursor behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100