Hello Guys,
Very often I want to mark an entire section for copy and paste. It would be very helpful if the screen followed my scrolling… I usually zoom out on anything I want to highlight… any solutions for that?
best regards
You can click at the start and then shift-click at the end of the selection that you want to make, which is possibly easier and a bit more accurate.
but then the time-sig will noch be copied…
You can use the system track (the floating grey line above the system) to select everything within a given range, including system items like time signatures and global chord symbols.
You can also press Ctrl/Cmd-A to select an entire flow, or select something then choose Edit > Select to End of Flow - etc.
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I too would like to have the scrolling when selecting regions outside the visible area. I’m not into programming but that seems to be a very simple thing to include, basic for most high quality apps as far as I know.
I expect those two conditions go together.
Nevertheless, it’s kind of insulting to the programming team to claim anything about their job is simple.
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How do you mean?
I don’t think Tomas means to insult our programmers. Perhaps in fact he means exactly the opposite, that to a layperson, it might seem that making the screen scroll must be simple in comparison to some of the complexity that we are dealing with.
However, software development can be surprising, and things that might seem simple from the outside can end up being significantly more difficult or complex than you might imagine. Over the decades I’ve worked in and around software development, I’ve learned to keep my counsel about such matters.
We joke that every time a user says, “that must be simple to implement”, a programmer fairy dies. It is only a joke, of course, and let’s please not jump down the throat of other users because they dare to express an opinion about how hard something may or may not be to do.
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Indeed I’m not.
That’s a very good description of what I meant.
It also includes a complaint about not being able to scroll like this, but we are allowed to complain. So I thought this would be a good way of complaining a little, without insulting anyone.
So compared to a DAW for example, making scrolling in notation software work as suggested must be very difficult. I just checked in Finale and it’s the same there actually. But then Finale has many oddities. So even if I had known that beforehand it wouldn’t have been easy for me to tell what’s difficult and what’s not.
Oh I’m sure there are pretty simple and basic things in programming, as well as more difficult ones. 
However I know now that this one isn’t simple. (And again, my intention was not to insult anyone.)
By the way. To make a discussion easier to follow and to reply to, it’s better (in my opinion) not to edit ones post as a reply to questions without any explanation added to the post. In this particular case, for a third party it may seem as if I don’t know what you mean by the whole quote above when I actually just replied to the first sentence. And just to make it clear to you and anyone that might read this; I don’t say this to insult you. I just feel the need to explain this to avoid misinterpretations.
All the best,
@Tomas_E