Window menu
How to get there
The Window menu is one of PrintMusic’s unchanging menus.
What it does
The Window menu controls (and indicates) which windows are open, and which are in front (active).
- Score Manager. Choose this item to display the Score Manager, PrintMusic’s floating window that controls the playback, MIDI channels, and patch assignments of the staves in your document. Choose this item a second time—so that the check mark disappears—to hide the Score Manager.
- Mixer. Choose this command to open the Mixer. Printmusic’s Mixer offers master and staff controls that allow you to adjust playback output in real-time. See Mixer.
- Playback Controls. Choose this item to display the Playback Controls, the dockable floating window that controls playback in your document. Choose this item a second time—so that the check mark disappears—to hide the Playback Controls. See Playback Controls.
- Main tool palette. When this item is checked, PrintMusic’s Main tool palette is open on the screen. The Main tool palette always floats in front of all other windows; you can close it by choosing this item so that the check mark disappears. If it is minimized, (displayed as a small icon in the lower part of the screen), double-click the icon to restore it to its previous size.
- Simple Entry palette • Simple Entry Rests palette • Smart Shape palette. When you Choose the Simple Entry tool, or the Smart Shape tool, the corresponding floating palette appears—but only if the corresponding Window menu item is checked. If you Choose the Simple Entry tool or Smart Shape tool and a palette doesn’t appear, choose the corresponding Window menu item so that the check mark—and the floating palette—appear.
- Tile Windows. If more than one document window is open on the screen, this command neatly places them side-by-side or one atop the other, subdividing your screen area so that all windows are the same size. The active window is the one in the upper left corner.
- Cascade Windows. If more than one document window is open on the screen, this command neatly stacks them so that they overlap by a half-inch or so, as though they’re a deck of cards being fanned from upper-left to lower-right. Because this arrangement leaves each window’s title bar visible, it’s easy to jump from one window to another (by clicking any visible part of it). The active window is the one in the lower-right.
- New Window. Choose this item to create a duplicate of the active window (and of the same file), in which you can scroll, enlarge, reduce, or change views independently of the original window. The various windows of a single file are identified in the bottom portion of the Window menu. When you edit music in one of the duplicate windows, the music is instantly edited in the other window(s) as well.
- [Document windows]. The names of all document windows are listed alphabetically at the bottom of the Window menu. A check mark appears by the active window. Choose a window’s name to make it active.
