I’m running Dorico on two screens in Windows 11. When I’m inputting music and invoke a popover like the Playing Techniques one, then start typing, Dorico populates a dropdown list of possible matches. That’s cool. But when I am on the RIGHT monitor, the dropdown list appears on the LEFT monitor (as if my input caret was over there), not below the input location on the right monitor where I am currently working. Clearly a bug, right?
Is this on macOS or on Windows? I haven’t seen this behaviour in macOS up to Sequoia, but don’t know about windows.
They said Windows 11.
Do you have different resolutions on your screen? I have my laptop and a second external display. My laptop is even set to 150% for letter sizes (can’t remember the exact naming of that setting now). I can confirm you that this setup can give strange beheaviour for opening windows and mouse click beheaviour. This setup even makes some 3rd party plugins unresponsive at some times…
So I should suggest you check your screen settings and do a test with both screens with same settings…
Koen
Screens are identical models, 1920x1200
For those interested, here is John Barron’s response:
“I think it’s displaying the menu on your ‘main’ monitor (whichever that is set to in Windows) and it’s a quirk of the underlying framework that we use. If they don’t fix it in the framework we may have to write some code to work around it. I think it’s also a Windows-only issue.”
Yes, working with multiple monitors (and if worse : working with different resolutions/settings on them) is always a tricky part for developers (I know, I’m also working in IT). It’s all about making sure positioning of windows, mouse clicks, etc is correct in every situation. Developers are using a base framework and if there is a limitation (or bug) in it, it’s very difficult to provide a solution… One can only hope they keep in mind as most different situations as possible when writing their code.
Like I said, I have two 3rd party plugins that lose responsiveness in the GUI when working on 2 screens with different settings. You can just click anywhere, they don’t react. But as soon as I put my screens in same resolution, the GUI is working again… Very annoying as I have to change my screens each time I use Dorico.
Be glad they admit there is a quirk in the framework. Most of the time they say that nothing is wrong or they can’t reproduce your problem… But it seems the problem of resolutions is not the case here.