An odd problem has happened since Scrivener had its latest change in its way of doing things. Here’s an example of how it works:
I have a project open, called, say, Twerk, and another called Refulgent. I want to drag a picture, called, say, Ducks, into Twerk. I save the picture to the desktop. Then I cmd-tab to reveal the Twerk project, make a file, cmd-tab back to Finder, cmd-n to get a new Finder window, click Desktop to show what’s there, and drag Ducks into the file in the Twerk project. Hunky dory.
Now I decide to drag another picture, Drakes, into the Refulgent project. I go back to Scrivener and select Refulgent in the Window menu, go back to Finder - but voilà, the Ducks project is showing, not the Refulgent project.
I do some stiffing and blinding, then cmd-tab back to Scrivener and close the Ducks project.
The Refulgent project floats back into view, obediently revealing itself.
I cmd-tab back to the Finder window - but Refulgent has disappeared again, and now all I can see is the next program on the list - Safari.
Madly irritating. How do I get a project to incarnate fully, rather than appearing and disappearing in this ghostly way?
I don’t know anything about Spaces - my only interaction with it is when I click cmd-alt-F3 to get the System Prefs and it opens in an annoying thing called Mission Control, which is no use to me.
What happened with the last update of Scrivener is that when I open a project - say by searching Spotlight for Arnica.scriv - this project will open and float into being on a black background, and if I open another project, it will then float in front of that. It’s nothing I did, it happened with the update. I thought it was some fancy new interface, which I don’t like but must put up with. This problem seems to be a function of the new way of doing things.
That sounds like you have got multiple desktops open, and that Scrivener and Finder are not sharing the same desktop.
When you are in Mission Control, how many desktops does it list at the top of the screen?
If there is more than one (and if you don’t want the extra desktops), hover your mouse over each desktop in turn and a cross will appear in the top left corner.
Click the cross for each desktop you don’t want/need and it will close.
This will NOT close the applications on that desktop. It will just move them to the next available desktop.
If you leave just one desktop open, all the apps will share the same desktop space.
Hopefully, your problem will disappear. This is not a Scrivener setting, but an OS X one.
You’re looking at the Preferences settings for Mission Control, not Mission Control itself. Take a look at this article on how to use MC: support.apple.com/en-us/HT204100
It just occurred to me to do a Spotlight search for “Mission Control”, and when I did so this came up (picture below). Only one Desktop. So it looks as if that isn’t the problem.
Edit - Sorry to be an idiot; I’d never actually heard of Mission Control, apart from being vaguely irritated that when I wanted the System Prefs the shortcut invoked that instead, and I then had to click Show All.
But why are they in full screen? I thought this was some weird new aspect of the latest update. The Scrivener prefs are kind of a maze - powerful, I know, but a lot of information in there. Is there some setting in there that’s telling things to open automagically in full screen?
If you are on Yosemite, the change in how the former maximise button now takes apps to full screen — occupying one entire desktop space — might be the cause of your issue.
If you want the button to maximise the window but not go to full screen, press option when clicking on the button.
NO. They are design people. Sure there are a few programers, but the UI is NOT designed by programers. Especially not in an org like Apple. This is a huge thing to understand. Programers for companies of “size” aren’t really making design decisions. They are handed a requirement doc and write code to implement it.
Make any sense?
My wife is stunned. Why would you do something as silly as that?
And it’s very likely a decision like this one was not only discussed but tested as well with focus groups and the like. And provided the reasons given by Apple to go through with it --I may o may not agree with them–, I don’t think that whoever decided this was either stupid or techie.
Designed by designers, programmed by programmers, “approved” by focus groups (perhaps). Get it.
I assume Apple wants people to use apps in full screen, so the change makes sense in that light; though it clearly causes issues for some users.
I like full screen in theory, but calling up other apps is a hassle with the resulting change in focus, and I often need to call up other apps for reference purposes or to answer emails or messages.
Does Scrivener have a separate designer? Or does the programming team do the design and programming?
Good to listen to people. Language is the “soul” made manifest.
Well, they have Keith, Keith and Keith. I am not really sure how they divvy up the work. Of course, we have long suspected that the rest of the “team” are just figments of Keith’s imagination. Especially Kevin.
Keep in mind that my statement was about Apple and other large corps.
As to apple wanting the use of full screen I don’t know that you have made a fair accusation. Show me non-full screen apps in a mobile platform. Looking at the most widely sold units for screen size and we are talking low res (aka small dimension) laptop/tablet devices. Most casual users, and in particular the next generations of users, experience the compute world one phone/pad screen at a time. Might it be that we multiapp users are no longer “the market”?
I’m by no means justifying the current design. Just trying to point to the real issues faced by product manufacturers (software is a manufactured product) in today’s compute world.
