Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Have a look at this:
http://maltedmedia.com/photos/toolbar.gif
It still escapes me why this kind of thing cannot live happily in two different tools.
Before the expression tool was improved I could see that there was some overlap between measure text blocks and measure text expressions, however, all these problems are now indeed covered in the expression tool in my opinion, and I see no need to merge the two tools. That is not to say that both tools could be vastly improved.
Coming back to the original feature request, although you can make any
feature request you like, I don't really see the benefit of making one
like this, since firstly it is unlikely that MM will actually make such
a major interface change and at the same time merge tools (to which a
lot of people have either objected or don't really follow the need for
it), and secondly I sort of feel that merging the two tools is going to
make things worse. In fact, I fear that by the end we will have a merged tool with the same design problems we have already, and none of the shortcomings of the text block tool fixed. Given that choice I'd rather see major improvements to the text block tool, and a better selection dialog for expressions, then let MM invest their resources into merging the two without any benefit that I can see.
I would like to see the kind of toolbar you invented for the two tools,
of course, but separately. The kind of text I type into the text tool I
would never want to use in the expressions tool, and vice versa. This
was a little different before expressions allowed multiple fonts and
multi-line items, but now that that problem is solved I simply use
expressions, and only use measure attached textblocks in very specific
cases, which do not overlap with the expression tool.
Johannes
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
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