Keyboard shortcut for Zoom In doesn't work
I'm on Windows 7 and I can't get Ctrl++ to work. It seems to do nothing at all. Ctrl+- works fine. This is true for all versions I've tried (1.3, 2.0 Beta 2, and nightly build R.83622b0).
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What type of keybaord? Where is "+" located? Depending on keyboard layout, you might be experiencing a conflict with some other shortcut. For example, on my keyboard, "+" is located above "=". So if there were also a shortcut defined "Ctrl+Shift+=", they would conflict. This is the case with ">" and "Shift+.", for instance.
In reply to What type of keybaord? Where by Marc Sabatella
My '+' is also located above '='.
According to Wikipedia, Ctrl+Shift+= is the shortcut for "superscript". Which is unfortunate, since I never use superscripts, and I find having to go to the View or Display menu every time I want to zoom in to be a real annoyance (especially since there is no access key for this command once you reach the menu, so you either have to scroll through the commands with the arrow keys, or use the mouse).
I imagine there's no way for the user to redefine MuseScore shortcuts. As a favor to those of us whose '+' shares a key with '=' (which has to include most laptop users, I'd think), would it be possible for MuseScore to support a second Zoom In shortcut?
In reply to My '+' is also located above by ghicks
No, I didn't mean any *general* conflcit - I meant a conflcit within MuseScore. "Ctrl+Shift+=" is not used as a shortcut within MuseScore. However, I now see that it doesn't work for me on Windows either - only on Linux.
In any case, yes, you can redefine shortcuts. Edit / Preference / Shortcuts.
In reply to No, I didn't mean any by Marc Sabatella
I redefined it to be Ctrl+= (no Shift) and it works beautifully. Thanks for the help.
In reply to What type of keybaord? Where by Marc Sabatella
I have this same problem, using 2.0.1 on Windows 7, on a laptop that has no numeric keypad. There's only one + on this keyboard, and it's shift-=. Is there a solution to this problem?
Solomon
In reply to I have this same problem, by Solomon Douglas
So you are saying Ctrl+Shift+= does not work? You can customize this and most other shortcuts via Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts.
In reply to So you are saying by Marc Sabatella
Yes, that's what I'm saying. However, I would like to use Ctrl+Shift+= to zoom in. Is there a way to customize the shortcuts in MuseScore so that this will work in Windows?
Under Edit/Preferences/Shortcut, the "Zoom in" shortcut is set to Ctrl++. If I try to change it, and type Ctrl+Shift+=, it simply sets it to Ctrl++, which is what it was already set to. This is unsurprising but unhelpful. Are you saying that Ctrl++ is simply an unavailable shortcut on some platforms?
Solomon
In reply to Yes, that's what I'm saying. by Solomon Douglas
Could be, I guess. The underlying handling of keystrokes is managed by the Qt libraries we rely on. If Qt tells us someone pressed "Ctrl++", then we act on it, but we can't do anything if Qt doesn't understand that this is what was pressed. There are unfortunately so many different keyboards in the world, not to mention several different OS's that Qt needs to support, that it is pretty a given that every once in a while there will be some combination that isn't quite supported properly.
FWIW, it works fine on my current computer, which also has no numeric keyboard and has "+" accessed as "Shift+=", and also I beleive on my old computer which had a similar keyboard configuration. No idea why it wouldn't for you, but if it doesn't, it doesn't; I guess you'll need to define a different shortcut.
In reply to I have this same problem, by Solomon Douglas
I'm also on a laptop without a number pad, and for me [Cmd]+[=] does it (substitute [Ctrl] for [Cmd] on Windows). Basically, forget the [Shift] key; just pretend the [=] key that has a [+] accessed through [Shift] is actually just a [+] key. Does that work for you?
In reply to I'm also on a laptop without by Isaac Weiss
This works if I change the shortcut to Ctrl+=, but doesn't work out-of-the-box.
If your computer keyboard has a numeric keypad, use the '+' sign located there - above 'Enter'.
(I'm on Windows 7, and Ctrl ++ doesn't work for me either.)
Regards.
In reply to If your computer keyboard has by Jm6stringer
No numeric keypad. The only numbers I have are the ones above QWERTYUIOP.