Re: [Finale] Changes in Finale 2003 behaviour

[Aaron Sherber]

At 09:18 AM 1/18/2003, Colin Broom wrote:
>1. In the measure tool, if in Finale 2002 I wanted to change the style of
>barline, I could while in the measure attributes dialog box double-click on
>the type of bar I wanted and it would select that bar and immiediately exit
>the dialog box. Now in Finalle 2003, even if I double-click, I still have
>to press OK to confirm it.

This was touted as either a feature or a bug fix in 2003a, and there was a discussion about it here when it happened. I think Randy Stokes said that the behavior you described was removed because there are no other Finale dialogs where you can double-click on an option and have the dialog close automatically. Personally, I'm on your side -- I know the behavior was inconsistent, but as I said to Randy, I *liked* this particular inconsistency.

>2. In speedy entry (Finale 2002) if I decide to move to a different
>measure, I could simply go down to the measure position box at the bottom of
>the screen (beside the layers) and type in the new number and hit return,
>without having to exit the speedy entry frame. Now, in Finale 2003, if I
>type in the new number while still in the speedy entry frame, it gives the
>impression of jumping to the new measure but actually remains at the same
>place.

This looks like a bug to me. On my system, I can see the display actually make the jump to the requested measure and then jump back to the original measure. If I had to make a wild guess, I would say that Finale is doing something like making the relocation and then exiting the Speedy editing frame -- which then causes the display to jump back to where the editing frame was.

Aaron.

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