On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:39 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 6 Jul 2005 at 9:57, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
It'll be
interesting to see how the new mid-measure repeats business works
and whether or not it will adjust the measure numbers
appropriately.
Isn't it just implemented as a plug-in?
Is there a problem with that? Plugins seem to be a good way to go, as
they don't take up CPU cycles when you are using the program
"normally". This is what I like about the TG Tools lyric plugins, for
example, over Finale's auto-word extensions.
Well, I would assume that code that implements the MassEdit tool's
functionality doesn't take up CPU cycles when I'm in Speedy, so I
don't see this defense of plugins as relevant.
Well, you WOULD see it as relevant if you had Finale slow to a crawl
when Auto-Word Extensions is on in your 300 measure choral work with
orchestra and several vocal soloists. Having word extensions update
ONLY when I ask them to from a plugin is a distinct advantage in speed.
Plus I get a lot more (and better, which is more to the point) control
over things with TG Tools.
There are a lot of plugins I use which I realise might have been part
of the code of Finale, but I am glad not to have them adding to the
bloat. I can easily remove plugins that I don't need. Maybe this one
(midmeasure repeats) would be fine and cause no problems at all as part
of the Repeat Tool, maybe not; I don't know.
If you add a new region, when you create it, it appears to inherit
all the settings of the previous region you were working on, but,
instead, it just doesn't update the display. When you close the
dialog, you find that it's actually inherited the default settings
for measure number formatting. Second, there are problems with the
measure-number display that I haven't quite traced down. It takes
two or three trips to the region editing dialog before the numbers
start actually displaying what you've told them to
Command-D (control D on the PC) to redraw usually takes care of it for
me.
Ctrl-D in a *dialog* box? The dialog box shows the WRONG FONT.
Sorry, I missed what the problem was originally (I need to read better).
This doesn't seem to happen on my Mac version, though I DO have to hit
redraw once I am back in the score for my measure number edits to show
up properly.
Sounds like a bug.
Christopher
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