musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Display only the first accidental when adding accidentals to multiple notes.
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Description
Your idea
Dear all, I propose you to make the accidentals added to a selection of multiple notes implicit from the second one.
Problem to be solved
Currently, if you add accidentals to a selection of multiple notes, each of those notes gets the chosen accidental, even if those notes represent all the same pitch at the same octave.
In the following picture you can see how the software behaves when you add an accidental to a selection:
Whereas I would propose the software to have the following behaviour when all notes have the same pitch (within the same bar):
Prior art
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Additional context
It's already possible to workaround this issue by deleting the surplus accidentals manually, but I find this not very practical.
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Research direction
The issue names no source files or tests. Start by reproducing the behavior in MuseScore: select multiple notes with the same pitch in one bar and add an accidental. Trace the selection and accidental-handling entry points, then verify that only the first matching note displays the accidental while the others remain implicit.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100