musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Impossible to select measure with mouse if glissando line runs right through it

Open
#23,202 0 comments 1 reaction 2 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

P2 UX/interaction
Dominant language
C++
Stars
15.1k
Forks
3.3k
Avg merge
2d 2h
Merged PRs (30d)
91

Description

Issue type

UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)

Bug description

If I have a measure where a glissando line runs from one corner to the diagonally opposite corner, it's essentially impossible to select the whole measure with the mouse, and often very difficult to select elements inside it (though some items seem OK, sometimes)

Steps to reproduce
  1. Create a new score
  2. In one measure add a whole note to the lowest line of the staff
  3. In the next measure add a whole note to the middle line
  4. In the next measure add a note to the top line
  5. Add a gliss. line to the first note, and extend it to reach the last note (in the 3rd measure)
  6. Try to select the middle measure with the mouse

NB Using "send to back" doesn't work.
And if you have, for instance, headless stems in your middle measure (a Gould-advised technique for indicating rhythmic durations mid-glissando), they're also impossible to select with the mouse. Noteheads or dynamics etc. generally are relatively straightforward to select, though not always.

Expectation:
Gliss. lines should be the same as beams - only the area where they're actually drawn should be selectable, not the whole bounding box.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

MuseScore Version

4.3.1

Regression

No.

Operating system

Windows 11

Additional context

No response

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.