Yes, there is a preferences file that should be automatically saving your settings.
It’s a simple text file that gets saved to the extensions folder:
/Users/Shared/Gig Performer/Extensions/GPLyricsChordsPrefs.txt
First check this file exists. If it doesn’t it might indicate a disk permissions issue.
If it’s there, you should see an entry for DarkMode = true
Yep that was it. Had to change that folder to read/write for everyone.
On a different request, I use a couple different lyric apps that have the ability to page down WHILE in auto scroll and then auto scroll picks up scrolling from the new location. Your scroll slider does a similar objective but selecting the Page Up/Down buttons do not . Can you suggest how I can achieve that. I use a bluetooth pedal while playing to make my selections….fyi
Thanks
I’ve taken a look at how I’m doing the current Page Up/Down. The extension doesn’t have a formal concept of pages, so what the ‘Down’ is doing is detecting where the current content ends on the screen (i.e. the visible content), and then jumping one screen-height down.
Is this the behaviour you are seeking?
I really like the Lyrics/Chords Extension. I’ve been working with the auto scroll function and BPM works pretty well. I’ve tried the EZ Scroller (Item number (4) here: Scrolling Your Lyrics or Lead Sheets - Gig Performer®) that Erik Schutz created for the Gig Performer Lyrics/Cords Editor and like it too. Is there a way to incorporate the EZ Scroller timer functions into the Lyrics/Chords Extension Global Panel? I looked at the script for the EZ Scroller but am just beginning to work with scripts and it is above my experience level to make the modifications to work with the Global Panel widgets. I do hope to be able to write scripts for Gig Performer someday. The source code on the extension is very interesting too, but above my present knowledge level also. Any chance anyone has worked with the Lyrics/Chords Extension to include this function or can help me add a timer to the “Page Scroll” widget on the Lyric/Chords Extension Global Panel?
Thank You very much rank13 for creating this excellent extension! And by the way, I have added the duration directive to a song and controlled scrolling speed that way.
Sorry for the delayed response……..yes the extension currently jumps instantaneously. As a reader I prefer to see the page scroll past quickly but not instantly. Similar to swiping a web page slowly. Hope that makes sense. I can take some vids and pos of what I am talking about if that helps.
Hello. I’ve been switching my setup to GP from hardware and it’s wonderful. Almost finished porting the sounds, splits, tracks, etc… and next online will be some kind of lyrics, as I used to see that on my tablet, but it was always cumbersome.
Not having worked until now live with GP, I still am fluid with the way I work with it, still not having a system of doing things. So, can this extension, or any other, display lyrics in a global rack ? With scrolling preferably
No, both the extension and GP’s own Lyrics/Chords use their own dedicated window.
The best you could ever do with a panel is to show some lyrics in a text label widget.
Thank you. Well then, I will have to learn to work with the lyrics extension 
Hey @rank13 I think suddenly Apple has disalowed your extention or I need to do something to let it past the firewall… getting this on startup:
Open System Settings and go to the Privacy & Security section. Scroll down to the Security section. There should be a message stating the file can’t be opened but there’s an option to open it anyway.
Message wasn’t there but I was able to retrigger it after relaunching and hitting done twice, then I was able to bypass the firewall.
But I had to relaunch again GP to trigger the extention again, and again was prompted by the same error but this time with the option to allow it at the dialog box, enter password… and then I was asked if I wanted to install the extention.
It was already installed… but in the recent OS update, I presume this started getting blocked again and has to be re-enabled like this again.
For all the benefits of running GP on the M1-4 platform, I really hate the way the software license of GP gets detatched from the machine when the OS updates and how these extentions are blocked. You have to be prepared to go though all of it anytime the OS updates. Windows was never like that.
The licensing process for GP has not changed for Apple Silicon
As for extensions, the blocking is being done by Apple, not by GP
Long time Apple user but only started using GP on it last year so I went direct from Win > Silicon, hence my perspective on the difference.
Are you always running all the latest updates?
Typically yes
Why ? My live performance machines are still Intel running 10.14. I have not seen anything in newer versions of macOS that I have to use on newer machines that would have benefitted me, either for music or other aspects of daily computer usage in life.
IMO, most of these updates (from both Apple and Windows) are mostly unnecessary, and I say this as someone who has been an early adopter for decades.
It’s not a dedicated machine for GP. It still well out performs my XPS and Zbook systems even though I don’t have it ultra optimized for live music and so I have to maintian the system for other professional endeavors. Such is life.
So what do newer updates let you do that you couldn’t do before? Serious question.
