Sorry if this is a dumb question.
Is there a way to turn off zooming with the mouse? I’m on a mac with a magic mouse. Often times when I am trying to select a pitch (Command+click), I accidentally zoom in or out, which is annoying.
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
Is there a way to turn off zooming with the mouse? I’m on a mac with a magic mouse. Often times when I am trying to select a pitch (Command+click), I accidentally zoom in or out, which is annoying.
No, there’s no way to disable zooming with the mouse, I’m afraid.
Hi Daniel,
My apologies that my first post is a complaint, since in general I feel quite celebratory about using Dorico.
If you were to open a score on a mac and attempt to drag-select any significant amount of material, it might become clear how important it is to find a way to disable zooming with the mouse. It can become incredibly irritating. Thanks.
Thanks for your feedback, Song. Can you be a bit more specific about what problem you’re encountering? I use Dorico on my a Mac all day every day and I don’t have any problems making selections, so I need a bit more information.
Dear Song,
I must say I understand Daniel’s question… We used to “have to” drag-select (lasso) in the early months of Dorico, it was the only productive way to batch select multiple things… But things have changed so much since 1.1 ! I don’t use the marquee select at all, and I spend quite some time on Dorico ! What do you use it for?
Hi Daniel and MarcLarcher,
Thank you for your replies and your request for clarification. Let’s say I want to select two items that are not contiguous. I use the command key and a mouse click to select them. Meanwhile, my score is suddenly much larger or smaller, so that the placement of each item has changed. So I have to zoom in or out again before continuing.
I am sure that it is my lack of knowledge of useful shortcuts, and that for others this might not be an issue. For me, when I am trying to work, it is an annoyance and a distraction. (I am only back on this page because this behavior became too annoying again, and I hoped to discover that changes had been made –– I hadn’t expected responses to my post, and had only offered it as feedback.)
Thanks again for your replies!
Best,
~Song
To select two non-contiguous items:
Some experimentation would indicate that you’re trying to do step 3 before you do step 2. Don’t.
Hi pianoleo,
Thanks for your thoughts. Sometimes the items are close to each other, and no scrolling is necessary. The behavior happens when I go to click on the second item and my finger unintentionally scrolls slightly as I am attempting to click the second (or third or …) item. I think it must specifically be a magic mouse issue, since timschnittke, who began this thread, was also referring to the behavior in relation to a magic mouse. Are you using one?
Thanks
Nope, I’m afraid I’m not using a Magic Mouse.
Ah. Well, my mouse is getting rather aged. Perhaps a change is in order …
I appreciate your responses, pianoleo, thanks!
Song, consider a Logitech 2.4G wireless button mouse ($15/£15 ish) - I use them on my Mac and Windows PC - works a treat. I think they come in different colours too and the battery (1 x AA) lasts ages. Plug and Play on both platforms.
Brilliant! Thanks for the recommendation, RobF!
~Song
I’m afraid it’s still a regular part of my work routine to correct unwanted zooming because my finger was hovering just slightly over my Magic Mouse, and suddenly everything’s minuscule. I suppose I’m not positioning my fingertip in a precisely optimum way. But it would be a great benefaction to be able to turn off mouse zooming.
Wouldn’t making the Magic Mouse less sensitive be an Apple OS feature rather than a Dorico setting?
Quite. Having the mouse do zooming, or not, is a feature of the OS, not of a notation app.
Here’s an article that offers some suggestions for disabling zoom with the Magic Mouse.
TBH, since I tried the Magic TrackPad, I’ve never wanted to use a mouse again. Apple’s Magic Mouse is really the love-child of a mouse and trackpad (doing gestures with the top surface), and is not as good as either, IMO.
I seem to have spoken without knowing what I was talking about – in my partial defense, because I encountered this problem only with Dorico. However, now I will try to attack the issue elsewhere (though that link describes an OS different from mine; I’ll keep looking). My thanks to @Derrek and @benwiggy for their kindness and forbearance.
Hey Everyone:
Sorry for the thread revival but I’ve dealt with this issue a bunch as well.
This solution works but disables all scrolling period, in any app.