musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Add "Recalculating Layout" dialogue box after reordering instruments
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Since Jan 29, 2024.
feature request
needs design
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Description
Your idea
It would be helpful to add a dialogue box that says "Recalculating Layout" while MuseScore is working on such a task
Problem to be solved
After dragging and dropping an instrument to re-order on a large score, it can take a while for the score to update and the user doesn't have any message, this can lead them to think there is a freeze.
Prior art
Something similar to this:
Additional context
Discussed internally while implementing this: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/19907
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