We would like to introduce you to a new feature that has been added to the latest version of GuitarSharp that was released today. We call this feature Drop Repeat, and it has been suggested by a couple of our users as being a feature that would improve the speed of using the Drag and Drop operations in GuitarSharp.
The Drag and Drop feature in GuitarSharp is a really intuitive way to create your guitar music without the need to remember key presses. Plus, it also works on Classical and Tablature Staves. However, if you have a lot of very similar Notes or Rests that need adding in sequence, then it can become quite repetitive to have to keep going back to the Toolbox to re-drag the item. When the Drop Repeat feature is selected, the last dropped item remains selected in the Toolbox so that you can then simply point and click where you would like the next similar item to be placed. No more having to keep going back to the Toolbox!
To switch on this feature, there is a new Drop Repeat menu item in the Edit menu:
When this is selected, the next Drag and Drop operation will retain the Toolbox selected item. For example, if we select the Drag and Drop menu item and then drag a Note onto the Classical Stave:
We get the usual behaviour as originally supported, however, notice that the Note has remained selected in the Notes Toolbox and the drag magnifier remains visible. We can now move the mouse to the next place we would like to place a similar Note and the cursor tracks where a Note can be added:
When we click the mouse button, a similar Note to the initially dragged Note is added at this location too:
We can then continue clicking and adding the same Note over and over again without the need to drag a Note from the Note Toolbox.
Once you have finished adding the selected type of Note, either click on a non-Stave area of the screen, or press the Escape key, or select a different item from the Toolbox.
We hope you agree that this feature is really useful and speeds up the time it would take to compose a piece of music using Drag and Drop in GuitarSharp. As always, if you too have any suggestions on features that you would like to see adding to GuitarSharp then please drop us a message using the Feedback menu item in the GuitarSharp software, or via our website.
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