F9 Palette View Menue
In the Barlines Menu there is a small pop up window with about ten icons. Is there a way to make them larger? I am looking at them on a 40" screen and they appear tiny. I am a beginner with MuseScore and when I study the course taught by Marc Sabatella, the icons on his screen are large enough to be legible.
Thank you in advance for your help,
Abraham
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40" screen to me seems like a TV set. MuseScore is know for notoriously misdetecting the DPI settings of those (or those misreporting their real DPI), so needs help using the
-D dpicommandline optionIn reply to 40" screen to me seems like… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes I am using an HD TV :) it is great.
Thank you Jojo, I already figured it out.
In the palette setting (F9) there is a way to increase the size of the icons.
To the right of Barlines there are three horizontal dots. Click on those and you get a
menu. Go down and click "properties" you get a new menu and you can adjust to your heart's content.
In reply to Thank you Jojo, I already… by [DELETED] 30037188
Not a good option, way too much work
What you describe as a workaround does work, but it's way more work than necessary. Right now you've done only the barline palette, but there are lots more palettes, and also, you are probably seeing the score and many other things in the program way too small as well. Much better will be to use the "-D xxx" command-line option as mentioned - this fixes everything in one shot. You should be able to edit the properties for the icon you start MuseScore from to do this automatically, although the details depend on your particular OS. If it's a TV set, probably you will want 72 for the "xxx".
FWIW, there is also an "advanced" setting in Edit / Preferences to provide an overall scaling to the palettes as a whole. Better than changing it one palette at a time, but still nowhere near as good as fixing it for the whole program at once.
In reply to What you describe as a… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc, thank you for the timely answer in addition to Jojo.
I use a Windows 10 pro brand new computer. My screen is a 40" HD TV and it work just fine with all other programs. By going through each choice it helps me understand the scope of capabilities of Musescore, but being more efficient than that would also be good.
I do not understand what is below because I am not that computer savvy: D.xxx
... "-D xxx" command-line option as mentioned - this fixes everything in one shot. You should be able to edit the properties for the icon you start MuseScore from to do this automatically, although the details depend on your particular OS. If it's a TV set, probably you will want 72 for the "xxx".
Kindly explain.
Thank you,
Abraham
In reply to Hi Marc, thank you for the… by [DELETED] 30037188
You need to read on a little on how to use the command line in Windows, but it's not hard, and will probably be useful for other things too. But the specific info you need in order to make use of command line options for MuseScore in particular are documented in the Handbook at https://musescore.org/en/handbook/command-line-options.
Probably on your system, you can right-click the program icon, click Properties, then under Target, you'd add a space then "-D 72" (without the quotes) to the end of the line there.
FWIW, my guess is you don't have many other programs installed if MuseScore is the only one that has trouble with non-standard monitor configurations :-). I have about 50 programs installed, and I'd say a good quarter of them struggle even with the built-in monitor, and that's on a Microsoft Surface where Microsoft is in charge of both the hardware and the software. The problem is that Windows doesn't always report the information correctly, it only does in a limited way and programs that require more sophisticated interaction with the monitor can't get the right information. Not that it's Microsoft's fault, really, the assumptions that monitors would only be a particular resolution are built deep into a lot of software.