Size of New Score Wizard Box
I have recommended musescore to my sister-in-law, who has downloaded the latest version, but on her screen the New Score Wizard box is too large for her to see the buttons at the bottom, for next, back, finish, cancel.
She says she can't make the box any smaller. What can she do?
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It is probably an issue with screen resolution (x*y) and DPI settings, also the scaling of the screen, like150% probably (quite a typicalvalue for a modern Laptop and Windows), maybe reducing that to 125% helps already, else you'd need to resort to using the command line options to tell MuseScore which DPI setting to use
In reply to It is probably an issue… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for that reply. I thought it could be something to do with the screen resolution, but it is quite a technical issue to explain to someone who is not very technically minded. I am not sure that I understand about how to use 'the command line options to tell MuseScore which DPI setting to use'.
In reply to Thanks for that reply. I… by Gordon H Taylor
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/command-line-options and https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/revert-factory-settings#instruction…
Instead of the
-F(for factory reset) use-Dfollowed by a numerical value for the desired DPI setting. Start with something like-D 100. Once a working value was found, modify the desktop shortcut that start MuseScorte to include that command line option (and outside the double quotes of those settings)See How to change MuseScore's DPI
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'll have to see if I can understand it enough to explain it to my sister-in-law. Would the problem only affect the size of the New Score Wizard box? If so, once you've created a new score, you could presumably add anything that you couldn't do via the New Score Wizard.
In reply to I'll have to see if I can… by Gordon H Taylor
No, it'd affect the entire MuserScore GUI
In reply to No, it'd affect the entire… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks again. I never imagined an issue like this arising. Living 100 miles apart, this may be beyond us to resolve, as we are both in our mid 70s. Perhaps we can find someone with more technical nous living in her area to help her.
Actually, on some systems, the issue is not with the entire UI, but only with dialogs. When she starts MuseScore and views the default empty score, does it appear "actual size" (physically the same size on screen as a piece of paper)? If so, then the command line thing isn't what you need, it's a Windows setting that needs to be changed instead.
Some things to try include what you see in https://musescore.org/en/node/139186#comment-1069759. On some computers that have this problem, setting the "Scaling performed by" to "System" or "System (enhanced)" works.
In reply to Actually, on some systems,… by Marc Sabatella
The original problem was that the New Score Wizard box filled most of the screen, but the lower part with the buttons was not visible, and there seemed to be no way of resizing the box. My sister-in-law has now reported that after fiddling around with the size of the box again, it suddenly became smaller, and she could see the things to click at the bottom. I don't know quite how it happened. Has she stumbled across a way of resizing the box, when it previously seemed impossible?
In reply to The original problem was… by Gordon H Taylor
Hi.. this happened to me. I fixed it on my 10 inch ASUS notebook by hovering the mouse over the top edge of the new score wizard box until a resize cursor became visible. By holding and dragging down, it was possible to resize the box so that the navigation buttons were accessible. The box has defaulted to the smaller size even when then the program is closed-down and re-opened. Hope this helps!
In reply to Hi.. this happened to me. I… by Florence74
That works around the issue for now, but you'll have to do this over and over, not just to this dialog but elsewhere as well. Better to fix the problem for real by changing how Windows communicates the information about your display resolution. See the instructions in https://musescore.org/en/node/139186#comment-1069759. Then it's fixed for good.