#496 Margins unresponsive

[Anonymous]

I greatly appreciate all your work on this program. Thanks in advance.

I'm unable to adjust the margins in my print settings. The numbers in each field are unresponsive when I try to type them in. Changing units causes values to change, but not in a way that makes any sense. Not sure if this is the relevant line in "PrintSettings", but I see this:

<page width="0.1180556" height="0.1527778" left="0.0034722" top="0.0034722" right="0.0034722" bottom="0.007716" points="true" inches="true"></page>

This is running on an M2 Mac, Ventura 13.2.1.

I recently implemented the recommended command from the ReadMe:
defaults write org.opensong.opensong dialogs -dict usesheets 0
(Incidental request: Can you tell me what command I would run to undo this? I didn't mind the other workarounds for the pdf issue.)

A couple times the program has crashed when closing out the Print Settings window and given me the following report:

NilObjectException:
OpenSong v3.4.8 (1457).1457 Build date: 2021-06-01 17:08:20 macOS

Stacktrace:
RuntimeRaiseException
RuntimeShowModalWithinWindow
Window.ShowModalWithin%%o<window>o<window>
MainWindow.MainWindow.mnu_settings_print_Action%b%o<mainwindow.mainwindow>
_Z17InvokeMenuHandlerP11RunMenuItemhP6WindowRh
_Z20RuntimeMenuItemClickP11RunMenuItemhP6WindowPh
_ZN9CocoaMenu15_MenuItemActionEP10NSMenuItem
_ZN17CocoaMenuDelegate13IsItemEnabledEP11RunMenuItem
-[NSApplication(NSResponder) sendAction:to:from:]
-[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction]
-[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:]
-[NSMenu performActionForItemAtIndex:]
-[NSMenu _internalPerformActionForItemAtIndex:]
-[NSCarbonMenuImpl _carbonCommandProcessEvent:handlerCallRef:]
NSSLMMenuEventHandler
_ZL23DispatchEventToHandlersP14EventTargetRecP14OpaqueEventRefP14HandlerCallRec
_ZL30SendEventToEventTargetInternalP14OpaqueEventRefP20OpaqueEventTargetRefP14HandlerCallRec
SendEventToEventTarget
_ZL18SendHICommandEventjPK9HICommandjjhPKvP20OpaqueEventTargetRefS5_PP14OpaqueEventRef
SendMenuCommandWithContextAndModifiers
SendMenuItemSelectedEvent
_ZL19FinishMenuSelectionP13SelectionDataP10MenuResultS2</mainwindow.mainwindow>
_ZL14MenuSelectCoreP8MenuData5PointdjPP13OpaqueMenuRefPt
_HandleMenuSelection2
_NSHandleCarbonMenuEvent
_DPSEventHandledByCarbon
-[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
_Z29CocoaFinishApplicationStartupv
_Z29CocoaFinishApplicationStartupv
Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling%%o<application>p
_Z33CallFunctionWithExceptionHandlingPFvvE
_Z29CocoaFinishApplicationStartupv
-[NSApplication run]
RuntimeRun
REALbasic._RuntimeRun
_Main
main</application></window></window>

[SvA]

Hi, I am not a Mac developer, not even a Mac user. However I can tell you there are severall things off and should not happen like this.

• I was surprised that you have the unit selection available. There is an error regarding these controls. They are accidentally placed behind a canvas control. I would expect this to make them inaccessible. On Windows they are invisible. On MacOS I would expect that they at least would not respond to mouse clicks.
• the calculations for conversion between inches and cm is wrong in your version. Don't use it. If you need to change this setting you need to set new values using the Page Setup button afterwards.
• the print settings dialog is displayed as a modal window. That means you should not be able to interact with the main window. Although in MacOS, the menu is displayed detached from it's window, it logically belongs to the window and should be disabled while it's window is inaccessible. The error message you supplied suggests you used that menu to call the Page Setup dialog. It is intended, however, that you use the Page Setup button on the Margins tab of the Print Settings window, in order to set page dimensions and margin widths.

You did pick the right line from the PrinterSettings file. The values are way off, though. For US Letter, with 1" margins all around, they should look like:
<page width="612" height="792" left="72" top="72" right="72" bottom="72" points="true" inches="true"/>

Can you please try to use the button on the Print Settings page and report back whether you could set the values on the Margins tab this way.