Meter refuses to be hidden

[Sherry C]

Howdy Iain,

Originally Posted by IanMc

What a nightmare...

I'll have to show you a picture of me from this past Monday as part of some drama I was doing. 'Tis an apt description

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Now I've added measures for Part B I cannot split them! The barline cursor moves along but nothing happens when I click the mouse but ok in Part A.

This is a usability issue here for splitting such measures, and I've written up a recommendation for fixing it (task 2348).

The measures in section B only are "divided" with whole rests. In order to split the measure, Composer needs to know where you want to split it (beat 1? beat 2.5?) and to know that, the rests would need to be split into smaller divisions in the empty measure. (When you add new measures, Composer tries to keep the score as clean as possible, so it puts a whole rest into a 4/4 measure.) I've recommended that if a user tries to split a measure that is not somehow already "sectioned" by rests or notes, that Composer should ask the user how they want to split up the measure.

With the above explanation of the current situation in mind, you can either add a new measure with a different meter right up front, or change the meter of an existing measure a couple of different ways.

To split an existing measure:

1.In the Notes and Rests palette click on a smaller duration rest
2. click in the measure you want to split. The rests will now divide the measure into smaller divisions that you can use as the split mark when splitting the measure.
3. Now use the Split Measure feature.

For the example of changing the meter of measure 10 in your file to 1/4 and having 11 through the end at 4/4 (in working on this I found another bug now task 2349, but these steps work)

1. Change the meter of an existing empty measure by clicking the Staff Symbols tab, then the Meter button.
2. Click on the measure you want to change the meter for.
3. In the dialog, select the meter you want for that measure (eg. 1/4)
4. and if you want to "Hide" it or not (I checked "Hide")
5. Click "Ok." (I see here a display problem that the 1/4 meter shows up in a different measure - you can ignore that for now, because it gets fixed in the next step, but I'm writing that up for fixing.)
6. Now click in measure 11, and change the meter to 4/4. "Hide" will still be checked in the dialog.
7. Click "Ok."

The previously mentioned issued have not been resolved either.

With the file that I have (Cooley's Reel (Part B won't Split).not) I see 18 measures, and no meters showing except at the very beginning of the piece. Was there perhaps an intermediate stage between the first file and the second file that shows the problem? (I only see two files that have been uploaded.)

I tried the following, in an attempt to reproduce the problem you're seeing:

1. Opened Cooley's Reel.not (first attachment)
2. See that a 4/4 meter shows for measure 6, so double-click it and select "Hide", no check in the "Split measure" option, to hide it.
3. See that the 3/4 meter shows for measure 9, so double-click it and select "Hide", no check in the "Split measure" option, to hide it.
4. Use Measure -> Insert (add) measures
5. Options: Add at end of score, 9 measures, 4/4 meter. Click OK.
6. See 18 measures in the score, and that meter 4/4 shows in the newly added measure 10 (because the previous measure was 3/4).
7. Double-click 4/4 meter in measure 10, and select to "Hide" it, and "split measure" option is unchecked.
8. Click "Ok" and now have an 18 measure piece with only the meter showing at measure 1.

I'm apparently missing something to make the bug show up. Given my steps above, what else should I do to make the problem show up?
The only other option that I can think of that might make a difference is that I'm accepting the default beaming patterns that show up in the meter dialog. Please let me know if I should change those, or add some other step, to force the bug out into the open.

Thanks!
Sherry