On 15 Jul 2002, at 7:22, David H. Bailey wrote: > Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > > At 06:59 PM 7/14/02 -0400, you wrote: > > > >>I think the idea of separate files connected back to the score file is a > >>complete non-starter. > >> > > > > I don't. The database can be the master file, and all the other files draw > > from it or add to it to produce their "reports". Putting everything in one > > file is a recipe for disaster. (Can you say "Windows registry"?) > > Not being much of a programmer, isn't OLE designed to do just this > very thing? Making the parts linked to the score via OLE (or a > similar programming procedure) would be a possible solution, wouldn't > it? Or is OLE dead and buried as un-implementable in any working > situation?
OLE is not cross-platform. It is also not reliable. Word files with embedded graphics very often get corrupted to the point of unrecoverability. A single monolithic file with the full score data and parts stored as delta from the score (which makes possible the storage of multiple short scores, for instance, maybe even a keyboard reduction, though that would be fraught with lots of difficulties) seems much safer, and does not remove any flexibility as long as users are allowed to save out individual parts as in current versions of Finale. In that case, I'd imagine that there would be no need at all for part information to be stored in the main score file. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
