On 24 May 2004 at 14:46, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
> At 2:31 PM -0400 5/24/04, David W. Fenton wrote:
> >How is this less useful than a windowshade UI?
Oo, I'll take this one! If I can SEE a tool, and be able to click on it easily, while seeing the score underneath it, this saves mondo clicking to un-shade and re-shade the tool palette. If it takes one click to roll down the window shade, then I have to move the mouse to the tool, then move the mouse to re-shade again, that's three clicks and some index movement that I would be able to replace with one click and little or no mouse movement.
OK, I can see that, but what about getting to the background window? Isn't that less of an issue in a window-shaded pallette than in a transparent one?
Yes, but it wouldn't be such a big problem for me to drag a pallette aside, the few times I would need to do it. I need to see underneath pallettes WAY more often than I need to click under them, so transparency is more attractive to me. Like you, however, I have stretched and massaged the existing pallettes in Finale to take up the least-used area of the screen as much as I can. Nevertheless, I still have to scroll or drag from time to time, and it bugs me. Next, a 50 inch screen!
Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
