Item selection with mouse pointer (tiny problem)

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When I want playback to start from a specific measure, I click on a note where I want that playback to start.

I’m just having trouble (not always, but often enough that it gets annoying) selecting A note, rather than the entire measure or a beamed group.

I was hoping there might be a way of having a single click in a measure selecting only one item at cursor position, and doing a double-click (or alt-click, or shift-click or whatever) to select the entire measure?

I’ve been working on a few large orchestral scores, and when I want to get an overview of the full score and play it back, it’s a bit hard to click a single tiny item in a measure without having to zoom all the way in, then back out again. I often end up starting playback only to realize that that single staff is soloed because I accidentally selected the entire measure rather than the 1st note.

Is there a solution I’m missing?

Thanks for any help.

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select the previous(!) bar then tab and right arrow?

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ok.
probably not the most ideal solution, but I guess it’s better than click, click, ESC, click, ESC, click, (various swear words), ESC, click, (one particularly choice swear word), “FINALLY!!! dammit.”

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Also you can select a barline, or a tempo or rehearsal mark and hit P. I find that more reliable at a small zoom size.

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I often forget that I can select a tempo marking as a playback point.
However, it’s not always handy, since I don’t necessarily have tempo markings all that often.

I tried selecting the leftmost barline (ie: the systemic barline ), but it was not selectable. Is this normal?

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Yes, that’s normal. You could even start playback from the key or time signature.

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Hi @Michel_Edward, for your case I think the good old shortcut Shift+alt/option+click makes Dorico select only one item in the position of the mouse, and if you click several times (keeping the shortcut pressed), it will cicle the selection through the nearby items, till you have selected the one item that you need.

Here the Manual:

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OH!!! that’s brilliant! I didn’t know that existed.
I just tested it by zooming out to a ridiculous degree and clicking on a beat where there was a note, and it works like a charm!!

Thank-you so much for that!

(and to the Dorico team for thinking to include it!)

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