In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I don't know the Windows side of things, but on the Mac there is a system >option which prevents unexpected cursor movements if the touchpad is touched >while you type. This does not work together with Metatools in Finale, and >has to be switched off. If not very jerky mouse cursor movement is the >result whenever a metatool is pressed. > >Johannes and David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Are you using the default Luna skin in WinXP (the one that is a >really cheap knockoff of Mac OS X's Aqua gummi buttons look, but in >really ugly colors)? If so, I'd suggest you try going to the Classic >skin and see if that changes things. I've seen lots of delays in >mouse click operations that completely vanish when using the Classic >UI. > >There are two places to change this, if I'm remembering correctly. >One is in the TaskBar settings, and one is in the CONTROL PANEL >Display Properties tool under APPEARANCE. The TaskBar settings really >only control how the start menu works, but I despise the WinXP start >menu layout, so I consider it part of reverting to the Classic UI. I >don't know that the newer layout has any effect on mouse click >reponsivenexs, though. > >-- >David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton >David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc Thanks to you both. I have not found a touchpad option in Windows to correspond to the Mac function Johannes mentions. I have adopted David's suggestion and reverted to the Classic UI. The "double click and hold" smart shapes have become better behaved: still somewhat random, but with a much higher proportion of correct functioning than when I first tried using them. Slurs now have three responses: the correct one; a dashed rectangle that disappears when you lift your finger at the end of the move; and a slur to the next note that occurs on the second depression of the button, rather than when you lift your finger, which is when it should happen. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
