I found 'Hide'...how do I un-hide?

2003-02-22 08:00 pm

I discovered that CTRL+H will hide the selected objects. How do I un-hide objects, especially if I can't find the hidden objects?

Am I missing something about 'invisible' somewhere?

thanks!
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Re: I found 'Hide'...how do I un-hide?

Reply #1 – 2003-02-22 08:27 pm

Ctrl+H is an alternate shortcut for the Backspace key. It will delete selected items. You can Edit | Undo to get them back, if you accidentally delete them.

You can use Edit | Properties to control the visibility status of selected items.

Re: I found 'Hide'...how do I un-hide?

Reply #2 – 2003-02-23 03:03 pm

I was just going to ask how Graeme Hayes managed to put notes in that are audible but not visible, not even when I save a piece of his music as a .nwc file and play it, and un-layer the staffs.

I suppose something is hidden in here as well, then?
Or does the composer block us from viewing, in this way preventing us from using all of his hard labour?

Rob den Heijer (robdenheijer@hccnet.nl), Maarssen, Holland

Re: I found 'Hide'...how do I un-hide?

Reply #3 – 2003-02-23 04:52 pm

Notes can be made invisible by changing the attribute in the "Visibiltity" tab of the Note Properties dialog. Indeed, just about anything can have its visibility controlled in this way. However, this only affects visibility during printing, and in Print Preview, the NoteWorthy Player program, and the NoteWorthy Browser Plug-in.

In the Composer program's editor, items flagged for invisibility are colored according to the color specified in the Tools | Options | Color dialog, by default a light grey. You can make this white, causing invisible items to disappear completely except where they cross visible items (such as the staff lines). However, this attribute is not a property of the saved file, rather it is a global setting for the program. So you can't use it to make things disappear completely for other users.

A common technique for hiding "messy" stuff from view is to have a completely separate staff for the sounded representation, and cause it to be not displayed in the Page Setup | Contents tab. That way you can spell out trills and other ornaments, tweak note durations, etc. A second, visible but muted staff, is then used to give the "visual" aspect.