>On 16 Mar 2004, at 12:53 PM, Phil Daley wrote: > >> "Maximizing" an application is a totally different process, something >> I would never ever do. It would then take up the whole screen. I >> cannot ever imagine a circumstance when this would be something I >> would want to do. > >You cannot *imagine*? You genuinely cannot see the appeal of having >the maximum visible area in Finale? > >I think you may perhaps be in the minority there. > >> That would cause a ton of slack space around the actual document >> contents. > >That depends on your zoom level, and the size of your page. And in >scroll view, you will never have horizontal "slack space" and, in >orchestral music, you are unlikely to have vertical "slack space" >unless you have a massive, portrait-oriented LCD. And even then, you >might sometimes need to drop down to 75% to see everything.
I can't imagine needing to see more than a whole page at once, in 100% page view, that would take up about a half a screen.
I can't image what possible purpose there would be in maximizing a scroll view. Whole width, obviously, but maximized would have at least 50% of the screen blank below the scroll view. I guess, if I were writing a whole score of parts, like an orchestra, that could be useful. I rarely write more than 8 staves.
>I won't go so far to say I can't "imagine" a circumstance where you >were working on a single Finale document and would *not* want your >Finale window to take up the whole screen. But I'll admit, I'm having >a lot of difficulty thinking of any substantial advantages to doing it >that way.
Some of the viewpoint must depend on how big the monitor is.
Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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