In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jim Mays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I have the Windows version and it works just fine for me. I don't use some >of the frills they keep adding, but I like the additional flexibility of >expression creation and application. > >It's the Mac folks who seem to have the greatest angst. > >Jim > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >David McKay >Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:01 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Finale] WinFin 2004 > >After browsing tales of woe with Fin 2004, especially the Mac version, I >wonder if 2004 version is a backward step. I have just received an offer >from our Australian supplier to upgrade. Should I stay with 2003 version, or >is the new version worth it, and will it bring me great angst? I have just moved from WinFin 2000c to 2004ar1 and one notices a large number of improvements over that period, but still some of the old annoyances. I am still having a few problems with it. A very strange one, that I thought was a new Finale problem but turned out not to be, occurs in the Smart Shapes tool. Because my desktop PC is old, and still running under Windows 95, I have implemented Finale on my new HP pavilion 4500 laptop, which has a touch pad instead of a mouse and runs under XP Home Edition Version 5.1. The consequence is that the measure-attached Smart Shapes function only intermittently, in circumstances that I have yet to reproduce reliably, though a long interval between clicks seems to help; the note attached Shapes are similarly intermittent when used in the "click twice and hold" mode. They work reliably on adjacent notes with double click and leave. I can't accuse F 2004 of being the problem, because F 2000 behaves similarly on the laptop but correctly on the desktop. So far WinSupport have replied to my query only with a clarification of the manual: I expect it always takes two posts to prove that you read the manual before all else fails. I suspect that the problem may result from interactions among Finale, the double click speed setting for the touch pad and my finger speed. Does anyone understand this problem? I have set single click for file selection in Windows Explorer etc., but this is not a touch pad setting, so I don't see how it could affect Finale. OT: As this is my first post here, perhaps I should describe myself. I am an enthusiastic amateur performer on several instruments, just coming to the end of studying post-graduate composition at the University of Reading (portfolio submitted last month, viva in July) having studied music part-time after retiring from Government Service in 1994. I mostly compose for my friends and have just completed the first movement of a suite for my wife's orchestra (DA CAPO: Do All Come And Play Orchestra). This is for adult beginners on orchestral and band instruments, excluding percussion and plucked strings. -- 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
