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Set default visibilty in text styles

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Description

Your idea

Add a 'visible' setting to text styles, to control whether different types of text appear in different scores/parts.

There is a workaround for this - you can make text invisible in a style by setting the alpha in the colour settings to zero. However, this makes the text fully invisible - not the greyed-out kind of invisible that you get when 'visible' is unticked - and therefore impossible to click on them once the colour has been set.

Problem to be solved

I have two main style templates I use - one for full scores, and one for parts. In these, I've set up several user text styles, for various different types of text used in my scores.

I would like to be able to use these text styles to control default visibility. For instance - there are certain types of text that I want to appear in parts, but not in the full score. If text styles included a 'visible' tickbox, I could set them to invisible in full score style, and keep them visible in the parts style.

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating text-style settings and the existing per-element Visible control, then compare how full-score and part style templates are applied. Done means a text style can store a default visibility value independently of alpha, with different score and part templates applying it consistently.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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