State of "play panel" on closing the program should be restored on re-opening

• Sep 24, 2018 - 07:38
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
PR created
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore
Tags
easy

The play panel resides in a frame by default now in V3. I normally use it as floating window, which is possible. But when I close and re-open the panel, it always goes back into the initial frame position.
It would be fine to save the last position and re-open it at the same place.

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• Oct 25, 2018 - 16:05

This patch seems not be added to the actual Prerelease.
Is there a special reason for this? Or just forgotten?
At least the problem persists.

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• Oct 25, 2018 - 20:01

A fix hasn't been added to the actual prerelease/master branch until it's marked as fixed. This is marked as patch, which means I've found a way to fix it, but due to the sheer number of pull requests (patches awaiting acceptance) it can take anywhere from a few days to a few months for a patch to become an official 'fix'.

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• Nov 25, 2018 - 11:45
Status closed ⇒ active
Regression ⇒ No
Workaround ⇒ No

I'd like to re-open this issue: when closing MuseScore, the play panel always goes back to it's default position. Other panels (e.g.Mixer) restores the position and MS 2 also restores it for the play panel.
The default position is not ideal in my opinion.

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• Dec 4, 2018 - 07:39
Severity S5 - Suggestion ⇒ S4 - Minor
Priority ⇒ P1 - High

What I see is that play panel becomes embedded each time you reopen MuseScore despite on the position before closing the editor. Is it the case you are referring to?

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• Dec 6, 2018 - 17:21
Priority P0 - Critical ⇒ P1 - High

FWIW, part of the new expanded workspace facility is to alow layout of the GUI to be saved there rather than globally. Probably those changes are related here.

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• Apr 23, 2019 - 09:07
Status PR created ⇒ fixed

The pull request was merged so the change should be in version 3.1 when it gets released.

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• Apr 27, 2019 - 17:43

I just tried V3.1 beta. Again, when closing MuseScore and re-open it, the play panel is presented in the default position, not where it resided before closing the software.
I tried both: a floating position and also a position in another dock.
In my personal opinion a default position in the dock left|bottom would be more suitable... shared with the selection panel

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• Jul 8, 2019 - 19:06
Title Position of "play panel" should be restored on close and re-open ⇒ State of "play panel" on closing the program should be restored on re-opening
Severity S4 - Minor ⇒ S3 - Major

Even if you have the Play panel open and undocked when you close the program, the panel reverts to docked on reopening.

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• Nov 29, 2019 - 10:26

Another aspect of the same problem. When you display the Play panel for the very first time it is docked by default. If you now double-click the top of the panel, it moves to the top-left of the screen (regardless of the size of the MuseScore window), and becomes stuck there. You have to close and reopen the program to reset it.

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