MuseScore opens outside my screen range
I use MuseScore 1.3 rev. 5702 on Win 7.
I had MuseScore running while I used two monitors. I had MuseScore on the second monitor. I don't remember if I closed everything properly. Anyway, when I started MuseScore the next time without the second monitor, the window seemed to open outside my screen. I managed to maximise the window, which made it visible - it maximised in my single monitor. But if I tried to make it a smaller window (don't know the English term), it went off the screen again. Well, I managed to move the smaller window with the arrow keys, so it reappeared on my single screen.
I don't know if this is a Windows issue or a MuseScore issue, but application windows shouldn't be allowed to open completely outside a visible screen area.
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Should be a plain Windows issue
This interests me as a programmer. I have only used frameworks that don't require me to deal with window issues. Is it so that the application itself doesn't remember the coordinates of the window from closing the application to next launching? Nor whether it was maximised or windowed?
I would check your Display properties to see if Windows still thinks it's using dual monitors.
HTH
Michael
The buttons are handled by the OS. They are Close, Maximize and Restore (a toggle switch), Minimize. Restore simply takes you back to whatever was the previously-used setting, however wrong that may now be.
In reply to The buttons are handled by by underquark
I checked the display setting. There was only one display at the moment. The problem is that the application started in what appeared to be a non window mode, but the window happened to be offscreen. Through the taskbar I was abled to toggle the restore button, which toggled between fullscreen and off screen window. The animation revealed that the window existed, but it was off screen. I haven't used much dual screen and next time I hook up a second monitor, I shall try to reproduce this with another application.
I know the application can receive a message about the close button. That's why I thought the application might even be able to receive information about the screen coordinates of the application window. Though there might not be a way for the application to exactly figure out whether the window is visible or not.