WHen I click a scene in corckboard view, with ‘automatically open selection in other window’ button turned on, as I want it, it navigates the scrivenings script to the corresponding scene in the text, as wanted (with the other editor locked, so that it doesn’t open just the scene, but instead naviagtes to the scene whilst keeping the whole script open in that locked editor, again as wanted, great feature) - BUT the slight glitch is that it navigates to the scene, but about 3 inches too far down, missing the title, scene header and first few lines. So that every time I use this, I always have to scroll up a bit to get to the start of the scene.
This seems to be a bug. Not awful, as all the functions are almost working perfecty - but would be great if we could just address that bug so that it navigates to the scene, with the scene/chapter title at the top.
The chapter/scene titles that you can turn on in scrivenings mode are great but also have a little bug: the label colour only shows if I go into options, every time I open the doc, don’t change anything, but just click ok, then the label colours for the chapter headings suddenly turn on.
Oh, and the highlight in dark mode still only visibly highlights top half of text.
Thanks for the report. I have not been able to reproduce what you are describing with the scroll position being off, though. I have noticed some subtle variation in where it scrolls to, mainly with editor zoom levels, and whether Scrivenings Titles are present (potentially there may be some variation there in how large the headings are), but for me this area of variation is around the top of the editor, not the bottom.
So I think I need more detailed information in order to set this up in a fashion where I can see what you are describing. Here is what I tried, so that you can follow along as well with each step, one by one, and tell me anything I should change or add to this checklist:
Bug reproduction checklist...
First factory reset your settings so that we aren’t working with millions of variables. Open File ▸ Options... and click the Defaults button in the lower left area of the window, then click Save. Ignore, for the moment, the prompt to restart the software if you see it.
Note: This can be done without losing your preferences. Refer to Appendix B.1.1 in the user manual PDF, if you are not familiar with saving and importing your settings as a backup file.
As the theme might impact the sizes of different elements in the window, use the Window ▸ Themes ▸ Default setting (if you are not already). Now at this point restart the software to commit all changes.
So that we have some material to work with, and are working from a common source, use the Help ▸ Reset Tutorial menu command, which will open a fresh copy of the latest tutorial once complete. If the command is greyed out, then use the main interactive tutorial command above it, and select a place to save it.
Don’t resize or change the window layout in any way, other than what is described below. Eventually you might want to do that, and tell me exactly what you are doing (for example, opening the inspector, or maximising the window), but for this test we should be on the same page.
Click on “The Basics/Get Oriented/The Inspector” in the binder, and switch the view mode to Corkboard.
Click the button to split the editor, and switch the right side to Scrivenings view.
Toggle the View ▸ Text Editing ▸ Show Titles in Scrivenings menu setting.
Toggle the View ▸ Use Label Color In ▸ Scrivenings Titles menu setting.
Click the auto-load button in the left (Corkboard) split, so that selecting index cards scrolls the right view.
Note: it is not actually necessary to lock the right editor for this to work. The software will detect if what you have clicked on in the left editor is located somewhere in the current Scrivenings session, and scroll to it rather than loading it individually. The lock behaviour is only necessary when using the binder instead of another split.
That said, I tried with and without locking, just to make sure that was not a necessary ingredient in the bug. I could see no difference in the behaviour.
Now with everything set up using the clues you have provided, click on several different cards in the left editor. The view on the right should scroll so that the section starts at the top of the editor.
You may note, as I did, that this is indeed flawed in that it does not properly account for the height of the scrivenings title. This is the part that can vary in my experience, based on editor zoom and how large the font titles are (among other factors potentially). However it is nowhere near as off as what you describe. For me about half of the title is cropped from the top of the view, which is annoying, but it is not close to what you describe. It almost sounds like for you the text is loading at the bottom of the editor, and the section top itself, including its title, is several lines below the bottom of the editor?
Further info
If you are seeing what I describe at this point, then what you will need to do is think of various settings in your project, themes you use, global preferences you use, and so on, that are different from what you have here. I suggest changing things one by one, and clicking around in this setup here, before moving on to the next, and jot down each thing you change so that I can copy your settings.
Let me know what version of Windows and Scrivener you are using. If nothing changes and you see the same behaviour in the tutorial with default settings, this and the following factor may be the difference.
Whether you are using a high-res monitor or not, may make a difference. I wouldn’t imagine it would create that big of a difference, but you never know.
I don’t see what you’re describing with the highlight either, but I would search the forum a bit to see if there are existing threads you can learn some clues from, or add your own to.