Every time I use Dorico, the screen is wider than my MacBook Air. I have to grab the upper bar, sliding the window to the left until the right border is visible, make the window smaller, and putting it at the desired place. This takes a lot of time. Can it be avoided? Can Dorico remember my prefered window size?
No, but I don’t want that. I also have my transcribe-window. But I guess that would be the only solution? To have go from maximised to the desired proportion every time? That would be better than the way it is now, but still far from ideal, But thanks for the tip!
If that checkbox isn’t selected, then Dorico should respect the saved state for the window. Do you use your MBA with an external display sometimes?
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Yes I do, and after I switch from the large display to the internal display, Dorico gets it fairly well most of the time. The “too wide window” happens at other times, really dring working on the same project. All of a sudden the window is wider. I did nothing.
The “too wide window” can be caused by displaying too much information in the status bar:
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I do not see a status bar. Bottom, from left to right: the “note edit-thing, (don’t know what it’s called, it lets you edit by eights, or 16 ths and so on) - concert pitch - transposed pitch - no selection (this part is kina status, but I cannot right-click it) - properties pull-up (this one is large and gets smaller it you make the window smaller, so here is room enough to make things less wide) - Follow playhead - a dotted square - a hand - page view - galley view - fill view - 4 screen order icons - a magnifying glass - 196& - v - ^ - +
This is my “status bar”. And it’s not he problem that I can’t make the window smaller, it’s the problem that Dorico makes it wider than my screen several occasions.
This is the status bar. If you select something, it will display different info.
Right-click on it to select the info shown.
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Okay. Is this relevant? My status bar doesn’t have too much info, if the properties-bar still is wide, I think? I don’t think this is the reason Dorico makes my window too wide, can it be?
The point is that on very small screens, the amount of info that Dorico displays on the bottom of the window can be too much. This has the effect of making the window bigger than the screen.
Try reducing the amount of information that is shown in the bottom bar of the window, and see if that helps your problem.
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Since the OP has described in their very first post that they actually can make the Dorico window smaller after getting the window margin into view, I think this whole “too many items in the status bar” is us barking up the wrong tree…
Yeah, it happens on my MacBook Air 2020 M1 even while working on a project, not doing anything. All of a sudden the window is wider than my screen, therefor hiding the right part, where all the important tools are.
I’ve seen it happen! It happens when changing from print mode to write mode, only then! It’s very annoying and time-consuming. Nobody having the same experience? What can I do?
You can hold down Option/Alt and click the green button in the upper left corner of the Dorico window. That maximizes it to the screen without making it full screen, which is how it used to be before Apple changed the default behavior for it to go directly to full screen.
Does the problem still persist?
That works, but then two things happen: my player disappears (of course, since Dorico is going full screen (without going full full screen) horizontally ánd vertically, and when I switch to print mode and go back it pops to too wide again.
Go to your Mac’s System Settings - Desktop & Dock - Windows - Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen. Turn that item off. Does this help?
That item is allready off. And this only happens with dorico, and only when switching from Print to Write mode.