Minimum window width

[sim]

Is there a setting (maybe hidden?) to change the minimum width of the windows? I would like to put two windows side by side to do some comparisons, but their minimum size is about 2/3 of the screen width (13 in MacBook Air).

[Christian_R]

Hi @sim
see here:

Scaling window problem on portrait monitor

The problem is that the Dorico project window’s minimum width is too wide for your display, so it’s being forced to its minimum width when you interact with it. We’ve made some changes in Dorico 5.1 that should alleviate this problem, so please give this a try in the new update when it arrives.

You can temporarely augment the definition of your screen, maybe?

[sim]

yeah, I’m already using that setting…

[dspreadbury]

The next Dorico 5 update will include the means to change which items appear in the project window status bar, so you can hide elements completely and thus allow the window to become narrower.

[DanielMuzMurray]

@dspreadbury

The next Dorico 5 update..

Hurry up already. It’s been over two weeks.

[frm5993]

How about simply letting us make the window as small as we need it?

[dan_kreider]

That’s exactly what this does.

[frm5993]

that’s not “exactly what this does”. i have to right click and hide each element one by one, then when i need the elements again i must repeat the process, rather than simply making the window big enough to see them. this is a weird limitation.

[Lavon]

This is very interesting to me. I had run into the same issue on my 13" MacBook Air. Your post was very helpful for me, @dan_kreider, as I hadn’t known that the bottom row was what was preventing it from going smaller. With that info, I can easily live with it as there are some things there that I never use. However, I would agree with @frm5993 that it should let you make it narrower and automatically do something with that area.

[dan_kreider]

I can only imagine the flurry of user complaints and queries when elements in the bottom panel were unexpectedly hidden by window resizing…!

[frm5993]

um, what? what else would you expect to happen when you shrink the window? this is standard behavior in every app i have ever used. it is in fact what dorico already does with the top panel, menus, and main viewing window. what’s strange is that the bottom panel should act differently.

[Mark_Johnson]

Some UI behaviors we are used to in other software may not be possible in the Qt environment Dorico uses in order to compile for Mac, iPad and Windows from the same code. Daniel S can tell you whether I am off base with this, but usually the team chooses how to implement this sort of thing the best way available.

There are plenty of those bottom controls I never use. I suggest we move on.