On 30 Apr 2004 at 22:17, Ken Moore wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > Thanks to you both. I have not found a touchpad option in Windows to > correspond to the Mac function Johannes mentions. . ..
That is a mouse driver specific setting on Windows. Dell laptops have shipped with drivers for a long time that have settings for that. But it would depend on the drivers for the particular touchpad mouse hardware installed in your laptop. > . . . 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. I'm glad it helped -- I didn't actually expect it to, as my experience is that the slowdown with the Luna interface is with UI widgets, and smart shapes in Finale are not being supplied by the OS. But it's good to know. I personally don't know how anyone can stand to look at the Luna UI, it's so butt-ugly. I see it on a lot of computers, presumably because people just don't know they have a choice. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
