"Staff/Part Properties" window always maximized

• Oct 22, 2020 - 04:31
Reported version
3.5
Type
Graphical (UI)
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore
  1. Right-click on any staff
  2. Select "Staff/Part Properties"

The "Staff/Part Properties" window always opens fully-maximized (though not officially in full-screen mode).

It used to open as a smaller window.

Even if I resize the window and close it, it will re-open maximized.

I am using the latest MuseScore Mac OS.

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• Oct 22, 2020 - 05:36

I can't reproduce, it could be macOS-specific, but if so, I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it. Have you tried Help / Revert to Factory Settings?

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• Oct 22, 2020 - 17:02

Thanks! I would be glad to try this, but I would like to retain a backup of my custom workspace/palette-- both to save the time rebuilding it, and to help deduce the source of the issue. Is the workspace stored in a file that I can copy or export, then add or import after reverting to factory settings? (I'm comfortable with the command line and with opening package contents on MacOS.)

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• Oct 23, 2020 - 02:54

Yes, the workspaces are in a folder whose location depends on your OS, but it's something like .config on Linux, AppData on Windows, unfortunately I don't know the details on macOS.

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• Oct 23, 2020 - 19:27

Reverting to Factory Settings solved the problem (the Staff/Part properties had always been opening maximized).

I made a backup copy of the following files:

  • ~/Library/Preferences/org.musescore.MuseScore.plist
  • ~/Library/Preferences/org.musescore.MuseScore3.plist
  • ~/Library/Application\ Support/MuseScore/MuseScore3/workspaces/my.workspace

The source of the problem seems to have been the file
* ~/Library/Preferences/org.musescore.MuseScore3.plist
because when I restored the backup copy, the window always opened maximized again.

I was able to restore the workspace file
* ~/Library/Application\ Support/MuseScore/MuseScore3/workspaces/my.workspace
with no trouble.

I guess that covers everything. Thanks for the tips!

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• Oct 23, 2020 - 22:16

I am able to reproduce this problem on my Mac.
At first, the window appears in a normal size. But after you click the Maximize button (the green one) once, the window will always open maximized, even if you resize it back to a smaller size.
I solved this by moving the following files to the trash:

~/Library/Preferences/org.musescore.MuseScore.plist
~/Library/Preferences/org.musescore.MuseScore3.plist

Theoretically, I guess, it should be possible to find the problematic data in those files, so that you can remove just that and keep the rest of your preferences.

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• Oct 23, 2020 - 22:21
Workaround No ⇒ Yes

Workaround: A) don't click the Maximize button or B) remove (or edit) the preferences files.
I'm not sure whether we can do anything to fix this, or that it's a problem of Qt and/or macOS.

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• Oct 23, 2020 - 22:51

The difference is at the Geometries.EditStaff key in ~/Library/Preferences/org.musescore.MuseScore3.plist.
This is the "bad" version:

   <key>Geometries.EditStaff</key>
    <data>
    AdnQywACAAAAAAJ6AAAAwwAABXEAAAMwAAACegAAANkAAAVxAAADMAAAAAAAAAAACAA=
    </data>

And this is the good one:

   <key>Geometries.EditStaff</key>
    <data>
    AdnQywACAAAAAAAAAAAAFwAAB/8AAARPAAAAAAAAAC0AAAf/AAAETwAAAAACAAAACAA=
    </data>

I copied the data from the good file to the bad file, and that also solved the problem. Entirely deleting this key and the data from the file also worked.

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