On 9 Jul 2005 at 17:09, Ken Durling wrote: > At 01:48 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: > >Also, I have major problems with understanding where my typing is > >going when I do something like Ctrl-Alt-T (to insert text) -- there > >is no onscreen indicator of where the text is going to appear, and > >there is a huge pause between my typing and the actual appearance of > >the text onscreen. There just isn't enough visual feedback here for > >me to be able to understand what's going on. > > Yes, there is an on-screen indicator: If you select an object before > typing Ctrl-Alt -T for Tempo text, a cursor will appear above the > selected object. . .
I can't get it to work reliably. I select a note, and see no insertion point. If I select a time signature (to type in a tempo marking), I get the blue arrow when I hit Ctrl-Alt-T, but no selection point until I click somewhere. And even then, there's a 1 second delay between the click and the appearance of the cursor. Completely unusable! > . . If you don't select something, you get a "loaded > mouse arrow" which you can insert anywhere by clicking. The blue arrow, yes, and my complaint is that the destination that the text ends up does not appear predictable to me. And the 1-second delay for the appearance of the cursor means it's just completely not at all usable -- I could never begin to get any work done with that kind of lag in the interface, and it appears everywhere throughout the program. Sorry, but if that's as good as Sibelius can do performance-wise on my PC, then I'm not considering buying it. Finale has no such lag problems, and never has, so there's nothing inherent in the process of what's being done that should disqualify my system as too slow for this kind of work. It's clearly something about Sibelius's coding that is not working on my system. As I'm not replacing this PC any time soon, Sibelius is disqualified. I just tried the Sibelius 3 demo to compare, and it exhibits none of the lag time that the Sibelius 4 demo shows. I'm sure glad I didn't commit to Sibelius with version 3, given how unacceptably slow version 4 is! It also seems to me that the appearance of the score in Sibelius 3 is vastly superior to that of Sibelius 4. I'm just comparing the two sample files of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, and Sibelius 3 looks *much* better than Sibelius 4. The selection colors are also much, much clearer to me (the blue of the selected notehead is much clearer. Also, it seems to me that the older music font is much more attractive. -- 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
