Dialog Box Size
Hi.
Just before the winge, a quick congrats to you all - this is a superb piece of software. I'm using it for instant-scoring for a school production - 0.9.5 on a little Ubuntu netbook, and it's near-perfect, other than the odd crash now and then, (along with the chordnames-paste stuff) ... but...
As are many netbooks, this has a 1200x600 screen, and many of the dialog boxes - 'Edit/Preferences' and 'Chords' particularly are too big to fit. It looks to me like these could be redesigned slightly - squeezed a little here or there, and the 'hemidemisemidimidomiquaver' thing improved in the 'Harmony Properties' box.
Cheers,
Ben
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Thanks for sharing the dimensions of the screen. I can shrink the "Edit/Preferences" dialog to 860x500 later this evening.
Which "Chords" dialog is too big? The one's I've looked at should easily fit on a 1200x600 screen. Also what do you mean by the "'hemidemisemidimidomiquaver' thing in the 'Harmony Properties' box"?
In reply to Thanks for sharing the by David Bolton
When right-clicking on a Chordname and choosing "Harmony Properties", I'm presented with a dialog approx 1600X400. (See screenshot) The reason it appear so wide is the chord extensions list (Maj, Maj7 etc.) also includes a number of entries like "hemidemisemiquaver {9?}" , which is either a bizarre Zappa-esque jazz chord, or a bug :) These entries also make the dropdown, which spans two columns of the list, hugely wide (as well as hugely comprehensive :) )
Cheers,
Ben
In reply to Harmony Properties by benn_
This is an example of Older style British notation.
If you do a search you will see.
Regards.
In reply to hemidemisemiquaver by xavierjazz
As an Older Style Brit myself, I have to confess that I've never seen a Hemidemisemiquaver{9} chord :) I suspect from David's answer below that the rest of the world is seeing a triangle symbol or similar...
Ben
In reply to Harmony Properties by benn_
Ben, Thanks for pointing this out. It is actually an mistake in the "English (GB)" translation of the interface.
Anyone know who maintains the British English version of the interface? It is not on the latest list of translators .
In reply to Ben, Thanks for pointing this by David Bolton
In r.1894 the preferences dialog is resized and I removed the faulty "hemidemisemiquaver" text from en_GB translation. So this will show up in the next prerelease.
I'm having the same problem running 0.9.6* under Ubuntu Lucid on a Packard Bell Dot with a 1024x600 screen. I can't see the click boxes at the bottom of the dialog box to alter preferences.
*I've got an issue with that but it's a different topic.
In reply to Dialog box size on netbook by tykewriter
On Ubuntu you can hold Alt and click on any part of a window to drag and move it around. I plan to look at dialog sizes for the next version of MuseScore now that I have a virtual system set up to test at this screen size.
In reply to On Ubuntu you can hold Alt by David Bolton
Indeed you can. And I did. Thank you for that. (It's Alt, hold down left side of click-bar on touch pad.)