suggestions
Hello, friends.
Thank you for your fine program. I really appreciate the dark theme.
If this is not the place to present bug reports and suggestions, please direct me to the correct spot. Otherwise, I will share things here, little by little,
1. In the same way that the "navigation" window can be docked, and then scaled to make more space available for the sheet music in view, I think it would be nice to have the piano keyboard scalable also.
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Is there any way to keep the all icons always in view, on the "note input" toolbar?
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Why not allow the playback window to be dockable? I would find it useful for the sake of accessing speed adjustment.
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How about a little more flexibility with the font size and style for footers?
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Why doesn't MuseScore open automatically the same workspace that I was using in the previous session? For example, I like to keep my navigation panel open at all times, but when I restart MuseScore, it it out of view again.
Comments
Thanks for the comments!
1) The piano keyboard window can be docked (I think it even default that way?) and scaled. It's a bit finicky to dock if you've accidentally undocked it, but keep trying. To scale it, use a gesture like pinch to zoom, or Ctrl with mouse wheel.
2) Which icons are not in view? Do you mean, if you make the window very small? I don't know a way to prevent the icons that don't fit from being hidden. However, if you right-click the toolbar, you can disable panes you don't need, which might allow the ones you do want to be visible.
3) Changes to the playback window are already planned for a future release, not sure what the status is. BTW, note the speed adjustment is not the usual way to change tempo for a song - you would normally use tempo text. But for temporary overrides, the play panel can indeed be useful.
4) You can change the font for footers via Style / Text / Footer. But if you mean, changing font within the footer, that is indeed currently not possible, and is something many would like to see. not sure the status of that for the next major release.
5) Not sure what you mean; MuseScore does remember state. Are you perhaps using the "-F" option when starting MuseScore? Or maybe you don't have write permissions in the folder where MuseScore is trying to save setitngs - is there anything unusual about your system configuration, like you are running as a different user than the one for which MuseScore was installed?
In reply to Thanks for the comments!… by Marc Sabatella
Dear Marc,
I'm sorry that I could not respond sooner to the posts. Thanks for answering, and for all your VERY helpful information on this forum.
Yes, you are right. The piano keyboard window can be docked, but I had not realized it when I first posted. Thanks for the secret to re-sizing it. I think it still has a tiny bit of wasted screen space above it and below it, in the way of the header-bar (I don't know what purpose it serves), regardless of the keyboard size itself, but the CTRL+wheel gesture helps a lot, and making the status bar invisible also helps reveal more screen space.
As for the icons, yes, you have solved my problem by mentioning that I could reduce the icon size, to make all of them fit on one row. Thank you.
Good suggestions regarding playback tempo, also. I wish the playback window were smaller and dockable, but I will use "tempo" from now on.
As for the footer text, thank you, again for yet another solution. As the font option does not appear in the "general style" window, I assumed that it was unavailable elsewhere, as well, but I was wrong.
As for the workspace layout, I have no special configuration, other than use of the dark theme, and of saving all documents to the desktop. Whenever I re-open a document, my keyboard is closed and my navigation window, contrary to my personal preference. I am using the lastest version 2.3 on a Windows Vista PC, 32-bit system.
In reply to Dear Marc,… by ErikJon
Oh, one thing I forget - see Edit / Preferences and the options twoards the top left, which control the windwos that are active when you start MuseScore. Just check the Navigator" box there, for instance, to have the Navigator always start out open. This option wins out over whatever you happened to have when you closed MuseScore, for those windows that provide the option. For the other windows, it does remember the last state.