Score slides around screen
We are using MuseScore 3 on both a Windows 10 PC and an iMac running Sierra. The Windows version is fine, but when we use it on the Mac, there are times when the score you're working on just starts sliding on the screen, sometimes off the screen. This seems to happen mostly when you use the mouse to move to a certain point in the score. We've tried sizing the window so that it's exactly the same size as the score (so no white space all around the score), but it still happens.
We've never seen this happen on the Windows version, so not sure what the difference is.
Any ideas?
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Sliding when you're just sitting there, not touching anything? Seems like a defective mouse that is sending scroll data spontaneously.
In reply to Sliding when you're just… by Marc Sabatella
No, it slides around when you pick up the mouse or move it to go to a different part of the page. So maybe you've finished doing something like typing in a chord. So you pick up the mouse to move it to the next spot in the score for a chord, and the score starts sliding around the screen. We had originally been using MuseScore completely maximized so there was a lot of blank space and thought that might be part of the problem. But we sized the window so that it was exactly the size of the score and it still happened.
We haven't been able to figure out a pattern or even force it to happen, but when it does, it's frustrating, and it happens often enough to be more than annoying.
In reply to No, it slides around when… by Marie DiCocco
Sounds like maybe you are actually pressing hard enough when moving the mouse for the OS to register it as a drag operation. Dragging the mouse will indeed move the score, that's by design.
BTW, you mention "typing" a chord, but also moving the mouse. If yu are truly typing the chord (the way I would normally recommend entering music), you don't need to touch the mouse at all - the cursor automatically moves forward. And when it gets close to the right edge of the screen, it automatically scrolls the score so you can see what you are doing. That's by design too.
Anyhow, if that doesn't help you sort out what is happening, maybe you could capture a video of this so we can understand better? I don't know if macOS provides a built-in way to capture screenshot videos, but there are lots of third party tools that can, at least for Windows and Linux.
In reply to Sounds like maybe you are… by Marc Sabatella
I wasn't clear. When I said typing a chord, I meant putting in a chord symbol above the staff. So after entering one chord, you probably need to move the cursor using the mouse to click on the next note that needs a chord above it - usually at least several measures away. So we're not in input mode at that point.
We'll have to see if we can make it happen on purpose and then figure out how to capture it. We can always video it from our phone and capture it that way.
In reply to I wasn't clear. When I said… by Marie DiCocco
Actually, you don't need to use your mouse then either - just use the various keyboard shortcuts for navigating while entering chord symbols, as per the Handbook. For example, Space to move to the next note or beat, Tab to move to the next measure.