Here is a situation that might throw a monkey-wrench into the concept of parts-anchored-to-score-file -- What would happen to the parts if you write out a full score only to get all the parts just as you wish, but then you don't want a full score anymore so you collaps it into a condensed score?
I can see lots of room for nightmare situations while we all learn how to be sure to set such internal switches before we dare enter a single thing in the score file. I don't have a problem with Coda implementing this concept, as long as it could be completely switched off for those of us who are wary of such changes behind our backs, and has a lot of error-trapping and Undo levels for those of us who do use it.. A few other cautionary situations: What would happen if a part file were missing, when the score went to update changes to the parts? I know this is a programming issue and not a concept issue, but it would be important that the program not "perform an illegal operation" by trying to update a part that isn't there. What would happen to the UNDO function if you initiate some killer change and later decide it wasn't so great after all? Would it be able to Undo all the changes to the parts as well? What would happen to text blocks if you decide you want to add a comment to the conductor that you don't want in the parts? How would that be indicated if you enter that block before you extract parts? Each text block would need to have a switch somewhere for "update in parts? yes/no." Right now it is still a problem, but I can wait to enter such text blocks until after I extract parts. But if the parts are automatically updated by the score, how would this work if I need to enter a text block for ALL parts, but also a single text block I want entered only in the score? While I realize we all know this would require a huge rewrite of the program, I do hope that such things are very carefully thought out before they are implemented, or none of us will use the feature and all the development time would be wasted. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 10:06 PM 7/12/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: > >>I'm scared of any application that will actually open up another file on my >>hard drive and change it without me asking for it. Maybe I'm paranoid, but >>it seems like you're just asking for trouble with that. >> > > I'd like to see this particular one if it worked like the Mass Mover select > boxes ... choose what you want it to change -- everything, nothing, or > selected items -- and have an auto-update button that could be on or off, > with an "update parts" command. > > I know I'd like it to change pitches for sure, and take care of deleting or > adding measures, and probably expressions. I wouldn't like it to respace > anything; opening the file to clean it up would be my choice. But for > simple stuff, automatic updating of parts from score (*and* score from > parts) has been on my personal wish list for a long time! > > Dennis > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
