Scrolling on the page
I am using Musescore on a laptop, so my screen is not as large as that of a desktop. I set up a score for 9 instruments and the last two do not fit in the window, as the height of the screen is too small. I do not see a mechanism for scrolling on the page. Page up and Page down don't work and there is no scroll bar. Also the arrow keys don't provide scrolling. How do I reach the bottom staves to enter notes there?
My OS is Windows XP.
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Press F2 and navigate by blue frame...
In reply to Press F2 and navigate by blue by ciemakat
Don't you mean F12? That shows/hides the navigation pane. F2 does nothing on my computer.
In reply to Don't You Mean... by newsome
Should be F12 by default to display the navigator as far as I know, although normally the navigator is already displayed.
I should note, however,that occasionally when opening a new document or displaying the navigator after having closed it, it shows up empty - the document has actually been scrolled all the way off the screen. Haven't figured out how to reproduce that yet, but I've seen it a few times in 1.0.
But anyhow, while the navigator is nice and sometimes useful, I would prefer to also have keyboard control. It's nice that page up/down work, although they always reset the window to show the top of page even if I'm working on staves at the bottom of the page (I'm talking about a large scores where each page is a single system that has too many instruments to be seen at once). But I'd still love to have keys to scroll vertically through the current page.
In reply to Should be F12 by default to by Marc Sabatella
In case someone pass by and don't know, it's possible to scroll vertically with the scroll wheel of your mouse. Ctrl + scroll wheel will scroll horizontally.
In reply to In case someone pass by and by [DELETED] 5
Good to know. I don't use a mouse, though; I use a laptop with a touch pad. Once upon a time, it had a "scroll zone" that I suspect might function like a wheel here, but that stopped working some time ago. Guess I should look into how to get that working again*. But still, keyboard control is pretty important to me. Sometimes there's just no substitute for being to move elements - or a window view - by just a pixel or two at a time.
*EDIT: I reinstalled the driver and now scrolling works - thanks for the info! Definitely makes working with larger scroes a lot easier. But it seems to be shift-"wheel" that scrolls horizontally. Ctrl-wheel zooms, which is very nice too.
In reply to Don't You Mean... by newsome
I tried F12 and it worked. I will try the mouse wheel, but that doesn;t provide very fine motor coordination.
In reply to F12 is working by peacenow
For finer movements you can also drag the score, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5FnEEwElDg