On Jun 30, 2004, at 19:45, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Reproducing the Text Block bug in Fin2004 is easy:
1) Open a bunch of documents generated from the same parent file -- such as a complete set of orchestra parts, or big band parts, etc. They should all be set to Page View.
2) Change one text block in one of the documents -- for instance, change the staff name header in the upper-left corner of one of the parts.
3) Cycle through all of the other documents, hitting command-D to redraw the screen after you switch. [Also, the changes don't always affect Page 1 -- you will have to look at every page of every document.]
4) If you have gone through the entire set of documents and found no unwanted changes, repeat steps (2) and (3) with some other text block in some other open document until the bug occurs.
You may also need to have "Autosave" enabled in order to be able to reproduce the bug (I'm working on confirming this). But if you're trying to reproduce the bug, I recommend setting Finale to Autosave every minute.
It should take you less than five minutes to reproduce the bug this way. This works on my system 100% of the time within five minutes. I am -- so far -- unable to figure out why some text block modifications bleed and some don't, or predict exactly when the bleed will happen. But I can always make it happen sooner or later.
Followed these steps with full set of orch parts, changing first the staff name, then the composer (in another part), then the title. Also tried 2 separate page 2 changes. I tried it with Autosave off, and with it set at 1 minute. I still could not reproduce the bug.
[Finmac 2K4c, OS 10.3.4]
John
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