Visual Comfort

With the arrival of increasingly high-resolution screens, it is sometimes necessary to adjust the interface to suit your eyesight.

Floating Palettes or Dock?

First, you need to decide whether you want to use floating palettes or the Dock.
This can be set in the "Windows > Dock" menu.

If you choose to use floating palettes, you can select an icon set and icon background that you find more legible in "Configuration > Global Setup> Icon Set".

How to adjust the different display scales?

Both the Dock and floating palettes are resizable.

For the Dock, click the icon at the bottom-right corner and move the mouse.

For palettes, click the title/input bar while holding the Shift key, and move the mouse up or down.

The display scale of dropdown menus and the mouse cursor size can be adjusted in Global Setup, under the Screen tab.

You can enlarge the small icons on the left side of each staff in "Configuration > Global Setup > Edit", under the "Staff menu: large icons" option.

Lastly, the document zoom level can be set via "Windows > Scale".

How to change the appearance of windows?

You can define the overall appearance of the interface: several themes are available in
"Configuration > Global Setup > Preferences > Themes".

Some themes can display in inverted contrast.

The transparency of palettes, alerts (and menus on Windows or Linux) can be adjusted in "Configuration > Global Setup > Edit".

How to choose the display fonts?

On Windows and Linux, the fonts offered in "Configuration > Global Setup> Themes" let you choose the look of menus, buttons, and window titles.

The Fonts option in C"onfiguration > Global Setup" lets you choose the default fonts used for the various elements of your score.
This affects not only what you see, but also the content of the scores you produce with the software.

How to choose colors and background graphics?

On Windows and Linux, the background of the main window (desktop) can be changed in "Configuration > Global Setup> Themes".

In "Configuration > Global Setup> Appearance", you can choose the color of boundary lines and ghost rests.

In the "Screen" tab, you can choose the background pattern or color of the score view, and the colors used to highlight selected elements.

Finally, if you program in MyrScript, the full appearance (fonts, colors, etc.) of the script editor can be configured in "Configuration > Global Setup> Scripts".