Yikes...I've held off upgrading to Finale 2004 because I continue to
read about bugs, bugs and more bugs. It took me forever to move from
2.7.3 up to 2003 last year, and I guess I'll stick with Finale 2003 for
Mac until such time as it becomes clear on this forum that 2004 has
really been cleaned up.
Martin
On Jun 8, 2004, at 6:49 PM, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
Please forgive my indulgence, but I thought that it might be worth
seeing if
anyone else has these issues before posting off to Macsupport.
I started using Finale 2004b OSX intensively for a project yesterday
and
came up with certain issues:
- Sometimes, when autosave is activated, something happens meaning
that it's
impossible to click on anything, necessitating a force-quit. It seems
to
happen sporadically, though mostly when a piece hasn't been previously
saved
before. Sort of makes Autosave undesirable if in fact what it forces
you to
do is leave the application _without_ saving!
- I couldn't Apple-V Paste into any of the File Info fields (didn't try
going to the menu).
- In the Measure tool, clicking on the bottom handle in a note-spaced
bar
gave no handles for editing the beat charts.
- Using the Selection Tool is now glacial in speed as compared to
Finale
2002 OS9, particularly with actually selecting the object in the first
place.
- I found it very difficult to drag measure-attached expressions
horizontally for any distance. The mouse would get ahead of the
expression
and I couldn't tell whether it was being dragged successfully or not.
Redrawing the screen would put the expression back where it started.
- Some plugin actions (e.g. Add Cue Notes in TGTools) were much, much
slower
than in 2002b OS9.
- The Cautionary Accidentals PI would put accidentals on repeated
notes even
if "Don't Put on Repeated Notes" was checked.
- Double-clicking on the title bar of plugin windows in TGTools caused
a
Force-Quit, as did mistakenly double-clicking on a Finale plugin from
the
Finder.
I did miss many of the outstanding plugins available in Fin2002 under
OS9,
including Jari's ones and Phillip's Classic Transposition and Text
Editor.
Philip, are you planning to update any of these to OS X? Please say
yes!
:-)
It's perhaps a little frustrating that I found all of these (possible)
bugs
after just one day's intensive Finale 2004b use. Goodness knows what
else
awaits.
To be fair, on the plus side, Finalescript is excellent, especially if
you
don't have a Macro application, and bodes well for the future if its
power
can be further extended.
Matthew
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Composer http://www.hindson.com
Artistic Director, 2006 Aurora Festival
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