musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Sequential multibox multiselect
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- C++
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Description
Your idea
Holding shift and dragging creates a box, everything in it gets selected.
The idea is to now hold down control and drag again for more boxes, without unselecting the previous stuff!
Problem to be solved
This enables the user to quickly and precisely select a lot and exactly what they want.
You want to copy the part of the first violins and the violas, but not the second violins? Sequential multiselect
Prior art
No response
Additional context
As far as I know, holding down control in that situation does nothing, why not give it a use?
(No, I didn't have a better idea for the title)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing the existing shift-drag box-selection behavior and how Control is handled; done means repeated Control-drag boxes preserve earlier selections while selecting only the contents of each new box.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100