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Make expression text behave more like 4.4 dynamics

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Description

Issue type

UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)

Description with steps to reproduce

Expression text should have some of the same behaviors that dynamics have:

  1. With a hairpin selected, you should be able to click the expression text element in palettes to add it to the end of the hairpin. And vice versa: with expression text selected, you should be able to add a hairpin after it.
  2. You should be able to move expression text to different anchor positions with Shift + left/right arrow
    • You can do this now if the expression text is snapped to a dynamic (via the "Align with preceding dynamic" property), but only if you have the dynamic selected. You should be able to move the two together if either the dynamic or the expression text is selected.
  3. When dragging expression text attached to the hairpin, the hairpin should expand/shrink while it is being dragged. Now, it only updates once the drag is released.
  4. Clicking and dragging expression text should move its anchor point.
Supporting files, videos and screenshots

For no.3 above:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9cb018d2-f260-4f5f-89ef-518de28f7927

What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

5.4

Regression

No.

Operating system

macOS 14.5

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