Thanks, Ken, for posting this -- I definitely appreciate it.

On 13 Jul 2005 at 17:33, Ken  Durling wrote (quoting two other people):

> >34. Speed users will find that you are constantly grabbing the wrong
> >items as the application is so slow to react.
> 
> The responsiveness of the program is, in general, much, much better
> than it was back in Sibelius 1.x days, especially on Mac OS X, where
> it's significantly faster than Finale on comparable hardware.

For me, the Sibelius 4 demo is significantly slower than the Sibelius 
3 demo in terms of UI responsiveness, especially in regard to typing 
text into the score. If I use the Ctrl-Alt-T shortcut to load the 
mouse cursor for typing into the score, it takes about a second for 
the cursor to appear, and once I start typing, I have to wait to see 
the text appear. And moving the text around is very slow, as well.

Everything in regard to screen redraw is terribly slow in Sibelius 4.

The comparable actions in Sibelius 3 are just fine -- no problems at 
all.

Finale is faster for all kinds of screen redraw and editing than 
either Sibelius demo.

Do people with more modern Windows PCs find the same comparative 
difference between Sibelius 3 and 4? Or is there some odd 
incompatibility with the graphics subsystem on my PC?

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