How to use keyboard to navigate in score

• Apr 26, 2016 - 19:44

Hi,

The question is about one page score in page view.
On my screen, I see +/- half of the page at 150% (zoom convenient to easily select elements) or +/- 3/4 of the page at 100%.
Until now I haven't used another way than mouse dragging to move the page to be able to work on different part of it.
It works but it is not very convenient as it also move a little left and right while dragging and the fine adjustement with the palettes position is lost. Also, on my laptop with only a basic trackpad it requires the use of both hands.

Therefore I was very happy to discover this post of Marc in a topic recently reactivated:
'The navigator works, but so do the usual Page Up and Page Down keys (also Home and End), and so does the mouse *wheel*'

I have tried all key combinations I can find in the shortcut tool to move my score, but home, end, pageup, pagedown, ctrl+shift+up (listed as 'Move up', I don't know what), ... nothing seems to "do" something.
Some of them are selecting the first element of the score (home) or the last one (end) but none of them "moves" the score.
For example, with the first half of the score on screen, pressing 'end' select the last note but in the invisible area, without moving the score.
I have tried horizontal/vertical view, no change.
Continous view works as I would imagine (home, PgDown, ... have the "natural" effect), the problem is in page view.

I'm surely skipping some obvious way to use the keyboard but I can't find which one, and any help will be greatly appreciated.

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• Apr 26, 2016 - 20:16

Different keybaords work differently, and different OS's do as well, so in order to help more, we would need to know what keybaord layout you are using (eg, in the US it's normally "QWERTY", other countries often have specialized variations) and what OS you are on. On my Chromebook running Linux, there is no page up or down key, but the "Search" key combined with the up and down arrows accomplish the same.

What about the scroll wheel? That's easily the best way of moving about most of the time. For those us of on laptops, usually there is some equivalenty finger gesture (two finger swipe, or swipe along an edge).

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• Apr 26, 2016 - 20:27

I could certainly use the mouse wheel if I had one, but I haven't.

The keyboard is a AZERTY one with keys [Home], [End], [PgUp] and [PgDn].
They work as described in the continous view but not the page view.

And ... thanks to your excellent suggestion: 'two finger swipe' => it works !!

That makes the keyboard "problem" a lot less annoying (I would still appreciate to be able to use keyboard).

Thanks for your help.

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• Apr 26, 2016 - 20:35

In fact in page view, both [home] and [end] do the same: they put the top left of the page on the top left of the screen.
It's ctrl-home which selects first element (without moving anything, so if the first element was out of the screen the effect is strange) and ctrl-end the last one.

In continous view I don't have these strange behaviors: ctrl-end selects the lat element AND scrolls the score to make it visible, same for ctrl-home.

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• Apr 26, 2016 - 21:14

Home should position the view on the*first* page; End should position it on the *last*. These are only the same for one-page scores :-)

Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End are not really useful in themsevles, at least to me, but in conjunction with Shift, they are essential ways to *select* to the beginning or end of the score from any given point. Without Shift, I guess they should indeed position the score there too, so feel free to submit a bug report (and feel even freer to submit a PR :-)

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