Windows
On a computer, a song can spread over several windows: the Score on one monitor, the Editor and the Mixer on the other. Each window holds panes of the same song, playing together and sharing the selection.
Separate windows are on the Mac and Windows only. The iPad opens a whole song in a window of its own instead, with Open in New Window (not on Mac)Open in New Window (not on Windows)Open in New Window (not on Web) in a song’s menu on the home; the phones and the web show one song at a time.
A pane in a window of its own
Available on Mac and Windows. Not on Web.
This isn’t on Web.
Moving a pane out
- Choose Move Pane to New Window (⌥⌘N)Move Pane to New WindowMove Pane to New Window (not on Web) from the View menu or the pane’s ⚙ menuthe pane’s ⚙ menu—. The pane leaves its place and opens in a new window, a little below and to the right of the one it came from.
- Or drag the pane by its bar and let go outside every window of Stab, on another monitor or over the desktop. A window opens where you let go.
A window’s only pane can’t move out: it already has its window. Split the pane first, then move one of the halves.
In the new window
The new window works like the main one. You can split its panes, maximize one, change what a pane shows and link it to others. While you drag a pane’s bar over another pane, a highlight shows where it will land: near an edge it goes beside that pane, in the middle the two swap.
Each window has the workspace pop-up in its title bar. A workspace covers every window of the song, so choosing one rearranges them all. See Workspaces.
Bringing a pane back
- Choose Move Pane to Main Window (⇧⌘M)Move Pane to Main WindowMove Pane to Main Window (not on Web) from the View menu or the pane’s ⚙ menuthe pane’s ⚙ menu— to put the pane back in the song’s main window.
- Or close the window. Its panes close with it, and the song stays open in the main window.
Closing the main window closes the song, with all of its other windows. On the Mac, Stab keeps running: click its icon in the Dock to see the home again.On Windows, the main window goes back to the home, as Home does; closing it again from the home quits Stab, and Quit StabExitQuit Stab (not on Web) in the File menu quits from anywhere.
What the song remembers
The song saves its windows with its layout: which panes are in each and where each window was. When you open the song again, its windows open with it, in the same places. If a window was on a monitor that isn’t connected any more, it opens near the main window instead.
Several songs
On the Mac, each song opens in a window of its own, and each can have windows of its own panes too. Opening a song that’s already open brings its window to the front. Only one song plays at a time: starting one stops the others.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Move Pane to New Window | ⌥⌘N | the View menu; the pane’s ⚙ menu |
| Move Pane to Main Window | ⇧⌘M | the View menu; the pane’s ⚙ menu |
| Close | ⌘W | the File menu |
| Minimize | ⌘M | the Window menu |
| Zoom | the Window menu | |
| Bring All to Front | the Window menu | |
| Hide Stab | ⌘H | the Stab menu |
| Quit Stab | ⌘Q | the Stab menu |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Move Pane to New Window | the pane’s ⚙ menu | |
| Move Pane to Main Window | the pane’s ⚙ menu | |
| Close | the title bar | |
| Minimize | the title bar | |
| Zoom | the title bar | |
| Exit | the File menu |
Not on Windows: Bring All to Front, Hide Stab.
Not on Web: Move Pane to New Window, Move Pane to Main Window, Close, Minimize, Zoom, Bring All to Front, Hide Stab, Quit Stab.