Window Menu
How to get there
The Window Menu is one of SongWriter’s
unchanging menus.
What it does
The Window Menu controls (and indicates)
which windows are open, and which are in front (active).
- ScoreManager. Choose this item to
display the ScoreManager, SongWriter’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 ScoreManager. See Instrument
List window.
- Mixer. Choose this command to open the Mixer.
SongWriter’s Mixer offers master and staff controls that allow you to adjust
playback output in real-time. See Mixer.
- Main tool palette. When this item is
checked, SongWriter’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 click 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 click 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.
- 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.
- 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.
-
Stack 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.
- [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.
