Playhead options to be added

Your idea

I propose the playhead to be customizable. The playhead should have the option to select the following options:

• Empty: no playhead
• Line: the current MS4 playhead, accent-coloured. Should be the default playhead
• Thin Box: draws a thin, translucent, accent-coloured dashed rectangle. It moves like the current playhead, even though it looks like the MS3 playhead.
• Thick Box: draws a wider version of the thin box playhead
• Measure Highlight: highlights the measure with a translucent version of the accent colour. Used on musescore.com
• Note-by-Note box: the MS3 playhead. It should be accent-coloured and translucent

Also make an option to make the noteheads highlight in the corresponding Voice colour while they are playing, similar to how it was done in MS3. It should be disabled by default.

The option which displays the playhead options dialog box should be in the Play Panel.

Problem to be solved

This lets the user pick how their preferred playhead looks like, as well as whether they want the notes to be highlighted or not.

Prior art

The playhead in Soundslice has customizable options, similar to the ones I proposed.

Additional context

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Start in the Play Panel, which is the requested entry point for the playhead options dialog. Review how the current playhead is exposed there and define how each listed style and optional voice-colour note highlighting should be selected. Done means all six playhead styles and the disabled-by-default notehead option are available and behave as described.