I’m choosing a playback position in page view, switch to galley view and back to page view and I get 3 different views/positions of my page.
How is it possible that your page stays at the same position when switching between page and galley view please?
So how can I keep the displayed part of my page no matter in which view I am?
Is there any way to go back to the position where I left page view to galley view, when going back to page view?
Same problem from Master Page changes back to Engrave or Write Mode. Dorico always jumps to the first page of the score. If you have a score with lots of measures and or pages, that’s a bit disturbing.
Get in the habit of ensuring that something’s selected (preferably a note) before you switch view/mode, then hit P twice: once to start playback (which will put the playhead on screen) and once to stop playback before it’s actually started making a noise.
That’s how I’m doing it at the moment, but I was wondering if there isn’t any other solution. Sometimes you are in a workflow, you forget selecting and voilà.
From other notation-programs I’m not used that the view position gets lost.
This has been a sour point for me as well and its very annoying. This also happens when you switch layout too. I think Dorico should keep track of the measure you are viewing and keep it locked there when switching around instead of reseting it to very beginning of the project.
The pp trick for playback is a nice trick but I don’t think we should be relying on workarounds. Any chance this can get fixed?
Sorry for necroing but I was just about to create this same thread again
Another vote for this from me. It would be great if when switching from part view to full score view, Dorico automatically took me to the same place I’ve been working on in the part view rather than having to scroll right through a long score to reach the point I was working on in the part
I realise this thread is quite old, but just now I switched from viewing Page 35 of a score in Engrave mode, to Write mode, which jumped to Page 1. When I immediately switched back to Engrave mode, that also displayed as Page 1. Switching modes always appears to scroll to page 1. Apart from selecting a note and initiating playback, is there a quicker workaround to make the display remember the score position in all modes?
I have the same issue, it even changes positions when I change the zoom size of the screen.
For example, I’m on page 10 of my score, looking at it at 100% zoom. As usual, I make sure to have something selected (usually a whole bar of music).
I then change to 150% zoom… but the music is suddenly on page 5 instead of page 10.
This gets frustrating when I’m doing rapid edits back and forth between different staves.
Yeah, you have to develop the habit to always mark a note in the score before you zoom…then zoom is no problem…if you forget it, you are frustrated for a short moment (“…not again !!”) 
Same thing with Page Templates. They always start with the lowest Zoom and you have to always zoom in.
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There are quite some situation where I think “this zoom-and score position-thing could be improved” - but I think the architecture of Dorico has some minor disadvantages in which things like this can’t be solved easily - otherwise Daniel & Co would have already done it long ago I guess…
Still a lot of problems - especially when working with orchestra. It really drives me crazy when the zoom and the score position is constantly changing - really constantly. Even if you select a note and hit ‘p’ twice you are lost in galley view when working with a lot of instruments.
i LOVE Dorico but this costs sooooo much time when composing. Re-Scaling your Zoom over and over again, find the right score position over and over again…..
Why is there not any issue in Sibelius about that?
Today I thought maybe Dorico could enter a function here, if you click on the page, that you are at least directly on the right page:
Also bumping this. Editing parts is genuinely excellent in Dorico, best I’ve ever dealt with in 20+ years of software. But the horizontal view position thing is one of my “throw the laptop out the window” pain points.
What I’m used to: I’m cycling between parts to do edits and spot checks and the view stays in the precise same position so that each part I switch to (which have the same bars per system/page) my eyes stay focused on exactly the same spot on the page. I can check a bar or line across multiple adjacent parts in just a couple of seconds. Finale was so good about this that jumping back and forth between parts meant that all the outlining barlines and exact positioning was identical, like a flip book, so that, for example, if I jumped between trombone 2 and 3 (where they had the exact same rhythms and other data, but tbn 3 was lower in pitch), nothing on my screen would change to indicate a different part was selected except that I would only see the pitches go up or down. Again, like a flipbook it was so locked in.
What Dorico offers: if I’m focused on a spot in the same kind of part setup, if I switch to the next part layout, the view moves so that page one is off on the right side of the screen. Not even centering page one or centering a 2-page fold. I always have to scroll to even see the full first page. Finding that spot I was looking at requires needle in a haystack hunting. Selecting an object before changing layouts does nothing (it actually de-selects the item when I switch!). The “press P twice” thing does nothing. So trying to find those spots between parts is just…. completely not viable, completely taken away as part of the editing process. Being able to compare two parts in the same spot is just so full of repositioning that unless you are constantly taking screen shots and using a second monitor, this kind of editing process (which is basically how we did it with paper parts back in the day, side by side or on top of each other!) is legitimately not possible in Dorico. I don’t know how else to quickly and carefully compare and edit parts without more robust view options in place.
Don’t get me wrong, yall got me hooked for life here! But all the keyboard shortcuts in the world can’t enable what a lot of us need. Like, imagine you’re going between browser tabs to compare info on multiple pages and the vertical scroll position resets every time you re-enter the tab. Here, it’s the horizontal scroll position. For some reason the vertical position is maintained. But that’s for each part with it’s own memory, so even lining them up that way is still basically impossible.
Anyway, hope changes are coming soon on this one.
I was searching the forum because I’m having the same trouble. But something you wrote jogged my brain: “imagine you’re going between browser tabs”… Dorico actually has a “browser tab” capability that I wasn’t using. So I opened up each part in a different browser tab, and now as I switch between them I don’t have to worry about the position resetting. Much better! Still doesn’t give you the “flip book” you’re looking for, but a big improvement.
I like the tab feature, but opening up one for each part on a large-ish score is quite tedious (I work with big band and orchestra more than anything). It’s nice, don’t get me wrong, but it both doesn’t give me what I need (stable views when flipping between parts) and also doesn’t fix what is a really odd behavior in Dorico that you don’t see in any kind of other application that handles tabs or multiple windows (Chrome, Word, etc etc.) — that is, that view position both resets AND defaults to putting your work essentially off screen.