On 6 Jul 2005 at 3:24, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Another thing, > > The video in on dynamic parts Sibelius is actually quite misleading. > You see the narrator click on a part name, and instantly, a > split-screen appears. That's not what actually happens when you use > the program. In fact, it's not a split screen at all, it's two > separate windows (which you can see if you look closely at the video > -- those are two Windows XP windows, not a single window with a > split-screen view). > > When you select a Dynamic Part in Sibelius, it spawns a completely new > window. . .
But not an *independent* one -- it's a child window of the parent Finale window. This seems to me exactly the correct way to do it. > . . . My preference would be for Finale to *not* do that. I like > the concept of parts as a separate View in *the same window* -- hence > my idea of Parts View and Score View. How would you want it implemented, as two panes of a single window? If you do that, you end up with the ability to have only two panes, meaning you could not compare multiple parts simultaneously. > When you use Special Parts Extraction, when you switch from scroll > view (score) to page view (part), it doesn't spawn a new document > window. When Finale implements Dynamic parts, I would like it to > follow that model instead of the Sibelius model. Well, I think it should work the same way as "New Window" within a document works -- it opens a new document window showing the same document, and you can adjust that window's view accordingly. It seems to me that "score view" and "violin part view" are equivalent -- just views of the same underlying data. And there should be no special privileging of score view over any part views. The simplest way to implement it, seems to me, with the most flexibility, is to start from Finale's current implementation of New Document Window, where you can switch between scroll and page view in any of those windows independently. If you then add the part views as options in each of those document windows, you've got maximum flexibility. I can't see how your suggestion would do anything but prevent the implementation of viewing more than one part at a time. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
