Good morning!
I’m trying to use Dorico on my iPad and one of the first things I notice is that I can’t Alt+Shift+Spacebar to play from the beginning.
I’ve tried (it seems) every key combo on my Logitech K480 bluetooth keyboard.
Does anybody else have experience using this keyboard with Dorico for iPad?
Thanks so much! I really don’t want to have to buy a newer laptop to be able to use Dorico outside of my control room. 
at least on my apple folio keyboard it is just shift-space. Try that and see if you get anywhere.
that just plays from where I last played, not from the beginning of the flow.
yeah, I’m in the “i” mode and have tried all of the buttons lol. I’m gonna go RTFM, which I probably should have done already.
I read the manual and the only thing I have learned is that the lower labels (in grey) on those keys is the iOS label, though I’m not sure that will help. Gonna go test again lol.
no dice.
I figured as much, lol, but never hurts to ask.
Have you tried running in windows mode to see if that works? It’s worth a shot at this point.
I don’t have that keyboard, but on the desktop I think this command now activates scrubbing, right?
just checked on my desktop, and alt+shift+spacebar plays from the beginning
I had an older version of that keyboard, and found not every combination works with the Ipad.
I never did figure out if there was some alternatives, as I dropped it on a tile floor and it stopped working. So, ended up with the apple keyboard.
So, maybe there are, I just didn’t get a chance to figure it out before killing it.
Does your keyboard have an option to update its software online.? Mine didn’t, but maybe they added that since mine was older.
no firmware update options, unfortunately.
I just ordered a through-power usb c hub for my ipad to see if a normal keyboard will work with Dorico. thanks for the wisdom!
I’ll let y’all know how it works out!
alright, so I hooked up a USB keyboard to it and tried ALT+SHIFT+SPACE to no avail.
What’s more, I went into the preferences and added ALT+SHIFT+SPACE as the shortcut (despite it already being assigned there, at which point it just stacked… which seems… wrong…) for Start Playback from Beginning Of Flow, and it still didn’t work.
This all leads me to believe that the iPad version of Dorico is not to to be trusted. has nobody else experienced this? I was really hoping I wouldn’t have to replace my laptop to get Dorico to run, but this has me thinking that the iPad version is simply undermaintained. 
Any further wisdom, beautiful geniuses?
Have you tried simply assigning a different, custom shortcut?
One thing Dorico for iPad cannot do, and for that one wants to condemn the program and those who maintain it. I don’t think the greater problem is with the program here.
I totally get your perspective; It’s the perspective I would rather have. What I see here is that a foundational functionality (an important keyboard shortcut) wasn’t working (which it absolutely should), but what’s more: the shortcut preferences would stack the same shortcut (which shouldn’t happen) and even then, that shortcut still wouldn’t work. So there is a larger problem with the shortcut functionality. Considering that these foundational functions are seemingly not only missing, but that I also receive no error messages (which leads me to believe that there are other unmaintained issues) I am lead to not trust this program with either allowing me the seamless productivity that I get from the desktop version, or trusting the program to not lead to lost time in lost work. Lastly, I did not condemn those who do (or don’t) maintain it. I know that work is hard and nuanced and often held up by tragically meaningless politics. You, on the other hand, called me a problem. Not so nice.
There are some limitations in the keyboard handling in Dorico for iPad. I’m not 100% sure which of these limitations come from the Qt framework on which Dorico is built, and which are more fundamental limitations in iPadOS keyboard handling.
I think it is fair to say that if you have been habitually using Dorico on a macOS or Windows computer and you want to switch to iPad exclusively, the current keyboard handling in the iPad version will be an impediment to making that switch comfortable. However, it’s also worth saying that if you have been using Dorico Pro on your laptop/desktop computer, Dorico for iPad’s functionality is limited more to roughly the level of Dorico Elements, so you would also be missing other features that you may already be relying on.
thank you so much for the thoughtful, comprehensive reply!
