The "Would you like to try our improved score style?" dialogue is too big and unscrollable.
The vertical spacing between items seems unnecessarily large, and the dialogue is not scrollable, and the buttons to accept/reject the options are placed at the bottom of the dialogue and the dialogue does not fit into the screen, so they are not clickable. I tried to resize the window vertically, but strangely, the dialogue sort of fled down and became invisible.
I know the screen is small because it is a laptop, but I think this problem could be avoided if any of the following was done:
1. Reduce the vertical spacing, at least when the dialogue cannot fit the screen's height.
2. Move the big title and example screen below the buttons, or to the right (two columns)
3. Make the dialogue vertically resizeable and show a vertical scrollbar.
I attach the screen recording. It is an MP4 file, but this forum does not allow attaching MP3, so I had to zip it.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| record.mp4_.zip | 1.65 MB |
Comments
Is it only this dialog that is too big? If you set your score to display at 100%, is it "life sized" (same as printed) or is it also big?
Normally this dialog should display at a normal size, but some systems do not communicate the system resolution to MuseScore in the expected way, and this can cause things to be sized incorrectly. Usually, though, it would be more than just this dialog.
Anyhow, Esc gets you out of this or any other dialog, or Enter if you want to accept the defaults offered.
In reply to is it on;y this dialog that… by Marc Sabatella
The inline screenshot above is actually a still image of the attached screen recording, and if you watch the screen recording, you can see the score's zoom is 100%. The score and other part of the UI do not seem weirdly big, as least so far. I had already tried pressing "Enter", but it had no effect, and pressing the tab key to move the UI focus did not work either. ESC works but I wanted to accept those new style. The only workaround I could find was lowering my system's DPI so that the invisible part would become visible.
I don't know; it probably is a not a very common situation that users have limited screen space, so if it would take a lot of work to make the UI usable for limited sceen space, then it may not be worth the effort, but in this case, it seems to me not that difficult to just move that big example picture somewhere else so that the buttons would not to be placed out of the screen.
PS: The OS is Windows 11.
In reply to The inline screenshot above… by musescore_king
It is not about the MuseScore score zoom setting, but about the Windows display scaling
In reply to It is not about the… by Jojo-Schmitz
The system DPI value is 150%. I had been using 125%, and 125% was not bad for so-called "modern" apps but the font size of old Win32 dialogue boxes (such as the Preferences dialogue of Notepad++) was too small. So, I have switched to 150%. That makes many things a little too big, but at least those old Win32 dialogue boxes became legible.
In reply to The system DPI value is 150%… by musescore_king
Try then disabling the scaling for MuseScore (it's exactly what is causing the issue here, Windows unintelligently scaling that dialog by 150%). Or feed it a DPI explicitly as per https://musescore.org/en/node/233416
See also, #313885: Reset dialog too large.