multiscreen support (several herein)

Scrivener Wish List
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KB, I sent you an email some time ago indicating that there seemed to be very little multidisplay support in Scriv. I understand you’re pushing for a new version and asking for toys now may not be the best time. You replied to said email (this must have been a year or two ago), asking me what I would do.

  • First, I generally write on the right monitor and have Firefox open on the left monitor doing the research I need. Firefox can have thirty-plus tabs in it, so the two-up page on the right monitor (Word, back then) was very convenient.

  • To translate that to Scriv, I’d ask that each of the corkboards be “tearable” so that I can tear my “chapters” corkboard out on the left screen (so I know the story arc, because I sure can’t remember it), and have a draft or something on the right screen. Something like this. I’d even like to be able to have multiple corkboards torn off so I can look at character sketches as well as location sketches while I work on a draft (and, pleeeeeease, full screen on the editing).

  • The support for this kind of stuff is tricky. Do you ask the user if they want to use multiple displays? What if they have a giant 30+" display, and they want to treat their 30 as I treat my two 22’s? I think having support for tearable things is great, and people may want that in single-monitor-mode as well. The single-window-paradigm is tried-and-true, but outmoded.

thanks,
alex

2

Scrivener 2.0 will continue to have one main window (so the corkboard will only be viewable in one display) but there will be support for viewing documents in separate windows on other displays.

All the best,
Keith

3

Hi Keith.
Could you explain how to manage opening documents in separate displays? Or at least some guidance?

I can’t manage to find how to do it.

Thanks a lot!

Miguel.

4

What you’re looking for are “Quick Reference Panes”. Click on a document in the binder and hit the space bar, and a window will pop up with that document’s contents. You can do this with as many documents as you want.

5

Not really. I know what I want and it is not the quick reference panes.

I need to have the corkboard on a 13" MBP and the Scrievings, even in compositing mode on another screen.

I’m making a kind of faux workaround as I stretch the screen from one monitor to the other, but a lot of times I do some operations on the binder or simply right click and the window shrinks by itself to just one monitor.

6

I think you’d be better off setting up your Composition mode settings to send the editing session to the secondary screen and leave the main window visible.