Feel like being in paradise! Everything turns to the nicest way! I think politicians have to spend some time on Dorico forum to learn how to take rude topics easy and how to apologis(z)e spicing the words even with a sense of humour. And how to reconciliate for the well being of everyone! This is the way how to be creative and happy and how to make the world a nice place!
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I remember being in a bar In the US and someone saying to me" gee that’s a cute accent what is it" to which I replied “Geordie pet” she looked bemused smiled and walked away.
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Thanks Aaron, I know, but first you have to close all the open windows. In other words Alt+F4 closes the active window (in Win) and doesn’t exit Dorico as the File menu promises.
Sorry - that was a long way above!!
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I still wonder if this should be considered a FR or a bug (for Windows)…
Maybe I’m not understanding you, but this seems to be the expected behavior on Windows for “single document applications” – apps that don’t have a top-level application window. If you open two files in Word or Excel and hit Alt+F4, only the current document closes, not all instances of Word; the same is true if you have two Chrome windows open.
The behavior of File > Exit seems to be similar. In Dorico, as in Chrome, choosing this option closes all windows. Word and Excel don’t have an Exit option; they have only Close, which just closes the current window.
Aaron, please, you can open various projects in Dorico and your suggestion closes only the open project, doesn’t exit Dorico. It exits Dorico if you have only one project open. Thus my key combination that works always…
I’m convinced it should change, as is in Mac…
Sorry @Alberto_Maria, I disagree with your contention that this behavior is incorrect.
Your first two sentences are accurate – Alt+F4 closes the open project and doesn’t exit Dorico. But replace “Dorico” with “Word”, and it’s still true – that key combo closes only the active document. That indicates that the Dorico’s implementation of Alt+F4 is correct on Windows.
Aaron: open two projects in Dorico. Go to File menu and Exit. What is written: Exit, not close open project. False. You don’t exit Dorico, but only the open project. What do you do if you have several open projects ad you want quit Dorico? Simply, what I do. Now do the same on Mac and look at the result. Different, isn’t it?
On Windows, when I have two projects open and I choose File > Exit, both projects close and Dorico exits, as expected.
I don’t have a Mac, so I can’t compare behaviors.
Exact Aaron! But you used the menu! Now do what the menu says: Alt+F4 . Dorico doesn’t do what the menu says: i.e. Exit! In other words in Windows the menu lies! In Mac says the truth!
Reread my posts Aaron…
I think someone will ban us… too much OT?
Are you saying that you see Alt+F4 assigned to File > Exit? In Dorico 5 on Windows, I don’t see that.
Not wanting to be a jerk, @asherber and @Alberto_Maria, but as…diffused (and humor-infused!) as this thread already was, I wonder if it would be better for you to continue “the great debate” via PMs…??
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I see this Aaron…
And I cannot believe for you it’s different!
At least you don’t have lies!
Sorry Judd, you are perfectly right.
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Waaaait a second. You’re looking at the File menu from the Hub.
Might it be that if the Hub is in focus, Alt+F4 does something different to if there’s a Dorico Project open and in focus?
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I have to answer: I see the key suggestion everywhere Leo… And Alt+F4 always closes the open window, because it’s a Windows system command.
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Fortuitously, I gave you the 25th like for your post, which should earn you another badge for your profile. While that’s not significant in itself, it does show that there are many people here who will gladly read your comments and support you. It’s a great community to be part of, with access to the Dorico developers, power users, theoreticians and day-to-day practitioners.
Welcome!
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Marvelous is spelled with one “l”. Seriously???
I don’t understand what you mean, marvellous is Brittish, marvelous is American English.
Both are valid.
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