Open multiple windows in one App/program or label the dock icon with the filename.

• Feb 17, 2024 - 14:20

Can Musescore not, like every other program, have multiple windows within the program, that are labelled in some way? Or at least if I hover over the app icon in the dock, show which file is open in that rendition of the program?

I'm on a Mac (currently Monterey 12.6.8). When I am looking at multiple scores in Musescore, they open as separate versions of the program. So on my dock I have multiple versions of Musescore open, and if I hover over them, they just say "Musescore 4".

I have no way of knowing which is which score. There is no "windows open" list showing which files are where. So to flip between scores, I have to open a random version of Musescore and hope it's the one I want. Which it invariably is not.

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Feb 17, 2024 - 14:21

Mu4 (currently) can't (and esp. the issue with Mac is known), Mu3 and before could

HildeK

• Feb 17, 2024 - 16:05

Doesn't the "Open recent" command help in this case? Or simply using "File open" resp. double click in the file explorer? I don't have MuS 4 (and no Mac), so I can't test it.

So if a score is already open and you try to open it again, then you automatically get the window and focus on that score? Some programs do that, e.g. Word.

Oh, I just saw that MuS 3 no longer has the name in the list of recent files if it is already open ... Too bad, but maybe MuS 4 has a different behavior.