[jmsl] Hiding a staff

[jmsl at music.columbia.edu]

I would expect the space to collapse, though I could see uses for the  
other as well.  It's a bit of a layoutManager type question, I suppose.

thanks,
Peter McCulloch


On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:37 PM, jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:

> It's a good idea Peter and I'd like to consider ... question: Say  
> you have three staves and you make the second one invisible. Would  
> you expect the vertical distance to collapse between the top and  
> bottom staves now that the staff between them is not visible, or  
> would you expect to see the empty space between the top and bottom  
> staves that is normally occupied by the staff ?
> Thanks
> Nick Didkovsky
>
> jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:
>> Is there any way to temporarily hide a staff in the score?  I  
>> noticed the isVisible() and setVisible() features for note, but  
>> didn't see this for staff and track.  The kludge seems that I  
>> could create a new score, copy the relevant staves over, and then  
>> return a new score with the values omitted, but it seems like  
>> that's messing with the model, and not the view.
>>
>> If there's not a way to show and hide tracks and staves, then I'd  
>> like to put that in as a feature request, as it'll allow all sorts  
>> of nice editing tricks.
>>
>>
>> Peter McCulloch
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