I have noticed on various projects that if I add a multi-note tremolo from the side panel using the mouse, that immediately afterwards write mode will freeze out the ability to do any selection at all – with mouse or keyboard. To reset this, I have noticed I can simply switch mode (to Setup or Engrave) and then switch back to Write, and now selection works again.
I am aware I can add these from the shift+R popover (///2 etc.) but thought I would bring it to the team’s attention. Thank you!
Shift-R, 32 is faster 
I do that one as well. In fact I most frequently use the popover – but again this is clearly a bug so I wanted to inform the team to look into fixing it for users that prefer the panel 
I just tried this (on Mac) and did not reproduce it. More specific steps needed.
This one does occur for me invariably every time. I investigated deeper and I think the issue has to do with the menu preference “load pointer with item” if you want to test with this on preference enabled which I usually have on:
To illustrate on a brand new project, this is what the steps look like:
As you can see after clicking the panel, my mouse attempts to click or lasso drag other notes does nothing, until I go to the Play tab and back to Write, then it ‘frees’ up the mouse to click.
However, I tested with the menu preference above set to “create item at selection” and this appears to fix the problem. So hopefully this refinement of what seems to be causing the issue can help the team.
Ah, okay, now reproduced. Instead of changing mode, just click the tremolo in the panel again to turn it off. Then selecting in the score works again.
“Create multiple items with mouse” doesn’t make sense with this type of notation because you can’t just point somewhere to make a 2-note tremolo without selecting the notes first.
Oh, ok – I didn’t know that. It’s fair, but it’s also unclear (even if technically logical), so I can imagine other users might run into that kind of thing as well.
Indeed. Unfortunately the menu preference is binary in that regard. Perhaps a better way to address this under the hood would be to except certain items from that menu preference where it doesn’t technically make sense. So a user could keep “create multiple items with mouse” as a preference, and items where that makes sense will behave accordingly, and items where that does not make sense would be excepted and behave like a ‘reset’ to normal mousing, if that makes sense.
I’m trying to picture the workflow of the multiple-items setting, and all I can think of is that the “expected” or primary-designed method is Alt-click to copy. What’s the advantage of that setting for you?
