I’m experiencing this odd behaviour of my system/Dorico/my mouse:
Very often, Dorico doesn’t respond to my mouse clicks. At the moment I’m still setting up my house style. And whenever I’m trying to click “Apply” after changing something in Engraving Options, Layout Options, Master Pages, … I have to hit “Apply” twice or three times to get Dorico to acknowledge my clicks.
The same thing is true when I’m switching between Setup/Write/Engrave mode by clicking in the tabs.
I haven’t had a chance to input a lot of music so far, but Dorico’s response seems to be laggy/not responding properly to my mouse clicks as well.
I’ve searched this forum and came across a couple of posts where people were reporting performance issues on specific Macs?
I’m on 10.13.6 and my machine is a MacBook Pro Mid 2014 (11,3), 2,5GHz, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD… specs should be fine.
Dear Jochen,
In the meantime an update comes and solves your issue, I urge you to learn the Dorico way, which means using the mouse as little as possible, especially when it comes to music entry. The keyboards (computer keyboard and MIDI keyboard) are the key to high efficiency here
Marc, I can’t see that that’s terribly helpful in the options dialogs - you might have to hit Tab a huge number of times to get focus to the Apply button…
Jochen, are you using the touchpad on the Macbook? If so, are you clicking it or just tapping it? You might find that clicking it is more reliable than tapping.
Dear Leo,
You’re absolutely right, I was mislead by David’s comment on input mode… I hope this issue will be solved soon. I had to quit once or twice and relaunch because I felt Dorico did not respond as usual. Looks like tough times for the team…
Thanks, pianoleo.
You might have hit the mark here!
Generally, I’m using the Kensington Expert Mouse. I was never using the MacBook’s trackpad with Dorico until a few minutes ago to mull over your question.
And interestingly enough, my first impression is that Dorico’s response to the Mac’s trackpad is significantly better compared to the Kensington Expert Mouse. I will have to investigate this further. But I’ll definitely have an eye on the Expert Mouse and also test Dorico with a different mouse.
We have been looking into the problems where Dorico appears not to receive the mouse-up event some of the time, and it seems to be a bug in the underlying Qt application framework. The most recent beta versions of Qt appear no longer to have this problem, which seems to have been introduced in Qt 5.12 (which Dorico 3.x uses; Dorico 2.x used Qt 5.11). We believe users should therefore no longer experience these problems as of our next release, which will make use of Qt 5.14.
Hi Daniel, is the next release fixing the tap-to-click issue, still far? If so, is an intermediate fix to be expected? Or, maybe a beta with the Qt version replaced?
Given that Daniel usually schedules releases (Tuesday-Thursday) when he and his colleagues can be on this forum to help support the transition, and given that Christmas is two weeks away and New Years the week after that, the most logical window for release before next year would have been next week–and Daniel often feels free to mention a release when it becomes imminent, perhaps sooner than the Team felt was safe.
As much as I look forward to any new update to the software, I’m happy to wait until the Team feels the release is ready and to give them the benefit of a happy holiday season with their families and friends.
(No Russian collusion was involved in the Kremlinology above.)
Will the new Qt version handle dialog screens better? Specifically some of the larger, like file properties go below my screen and I can’t find Apply and Close. My work around is Tab and Enter from the last input box, and hope it’s doing Apply.
I always look forward to the updates. Not just for the big new elements, the ones that tend to grab the headlines, but for the host of other improvements that also appear as well. Anyway, 2020 - here’s looking forward to you.
Heck, I’m already also looking forward to the next update likely around mid summer (even though I have no idea what will be in it)…and the one after that…and the next paid upgrade.
This is what happens when a development team has an amazing track record!
Certainly the next version of Dorico will follow the Windows display scale factor more properly than it does now (e.g. if you choose a Windows scale factor of 125%, Dorico itself will be scaled at 125%, rather than at 150% as it is at present).
