On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:21, Fiskum, Steve wrote: > I think it would be great if that is what "Reset to Defaults" means. I > thought it meant that you could setup a default copy action somewhere > and that you could click the "Reset To Defaults" button that to get > back to that desired way of copying. If all it means is "Check All" > then why not call it "Check All" (which is next to the "Uncheck All" > button)? Is that not logical? Since I don't have a copy of 2006 it's > hard to answer a lot of the many questions I have regarding this > issue.
Well, there is more than just checkboxes. There's also the option group controlling clef copying, a very important new feature that is, I hope, designed to address the major problems with the old clef copying behavior. Somewhere along the line, I thought there was the implementation of "smart clefs" but I don't see that in the screen shot in Jari's review. I was hoping that what "smart clefs" meant was that if you're copying to a staff with the same base clef/transposition, the clefs would automatically be copied, and likewise for copying within the same staff. So, RESET TO DEFAULTS is more than CHECK ALL. And the problem to me seems to not be replacing COPY EVERYTHING with RESET TO DEFAULTS (if you use the keyboard shortcut to pop the dialog before copying, then you won't have any extra steps), but the apparent loss of state. In current Finale, the state of checkboxes for copy filtering is maintained, and that's an incredibly useful feature. I can't see how the new UI could possibly retain this information given the new UI, and it's a big loss. -- 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
