musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Add a direct filter for all dynamics object (dynamics text+hairpins+cresc./dim. lines)

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Description

Your idea

The current filter (beside its limitation to be improved) allows you to select different items simultaneously, or to exclude some of them specifically.
The are only few reasons why someone would want to select only specific items: to delete only them, to disable playback only for them, and to copypaste them.

We have a long list of items:

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Now, while I can't imagine a reason why someone would want to select only fingerings+glissandos, or lyrics+ornaments, it's pretty evident that anyone wanting to select dynamics has 99% chance to willing also to select hairpins and cresc./dim. playback. It is really hard to imagine a reason why someone would want to copypaste hairpins without the attached dynamics, or disabling playback for a crescendo line and not for a crescendo hairpin.

Problem to be solved

Having to copypaste an entire set of dynamics items (dynamics+hairpins+lines) from a section to another is incredibily frequent when arranging, transcribing and composing.
It would be nice to have a direct command (with the possibility to assing a shortcut to it) to do that and simplify the workflow.

Prior art

In Sibelius you can select all dynamics, hairpins and cresc./dim. line just with Ctrl+Shift+D.

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Research direction

Start by tracing the existing filter described in the issue and the selection behavior for dynamics, hairpins, and cresc./dim. lines; no source file or test is named. Done means a direct command with an assignable shortcut selects the complete dynamics set consistently for copying, deletion, and playback disabling.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

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