OpenLP Version: 2.2
Computer OS: OS X 10.11
Reproducibility: Always
Severity: Major
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I rate this as major in terms of a major loss of function compared to 2.0.5, not major as in program crashing etc.
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I use Macs as primary platform for running OpenLP, I do the testing for the church, make themes etc. I have the suspicion that Macs are not the primary platform that OpenLP is developed for. I suspect the developers use mostly Linux and Windows second. I say this because if the developers were heavy OS X users I suspect this would have been found during development.
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As I run on OS X and I don't have a projector at home I simulate a projector by a couple of means. For both methods I simulate a projector running at 1920 x 1080, i.e. 'video' HD resolution. This resolution is important because it is projector HD resolution and every resource we use is set to this resolution — all our graphic images, our themes including font sizes, the PowerPoint slides we convert to images and so on.
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So the methods I use are:
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On my MacBook Air I connect an external monitor running at 1920 x 1080 i.e. HD resolution.This essentially is the same as a projector.
On the MacBook Air and my iMac in the OpenLP configuration — General > Monitors > Override display position — I set the width and height to 1920 x 1080 and I would select 'Display if a single screen'.
The issue with OpenLP 2.2 comes with method 2. What I used to do (still do on production machines) is use the built in feature of OS X, Spaces, to have multiple (virtual) desktops. I would run OpenLP on, say, desktop 3 and then when I would send a song to Live output it would display the live output to the screen. Obviously the live output would cover over the main OpenLP application window. What I would then do is press [F3] on the Mac which would bring up OS X Exposé and the OpenLP Application window and the Live Output window would show as two separate windows. I could then grab the live output window and drag it to another desktop.
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So I would have the OpenLP application window on one desktop, and the live display output on another desktop, and I could easily navigate between them. Furthermore because the OpenLP application still had focus I could be looking at the live output on desktop 4 while pressing the up/down arrow keys to navigate a song/service. This was nice functionality because on one machine you could fully simulate/run/test a service in OpenLP.
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In OpenLP 2.2 this no longer works.
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If I press [F3] Exposé in 2.2 I only see the OpenLP application window, the Live Output window is missing in action.
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Can the pre-2.2 functionality be restored?
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