On Sep 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
In the Staff Menu, check Show Staff Style Names. No problems keeping
track now.
I also reduced the intensity of the colour of staff styles, so that I
could see though them more easily.
Christopher
I like to have the colours set to very light blue, for this reason -
which makes the names unreadable. And here's a typical jungle I
encounter, in this case with a dark colour used to make the names
visible:
http://www.owainsutton.co.uk/images/staffstyles.jpg
Hmm, I wonder if that is a Fin2006, or a Windows thing, because on
FinMac2005 I don't get the style bars opaque. Also, setting the colour
to anything at all makes the text in my version the colour OPPOSITE to
the colour I choose for the bar itself, for maximum text contrast no
matter what colour I choose. Colours are transluscent, too, so light
blue-gray hardly upsets me at all.
In your position, I would complain. Your example looks very messy to
deal with.
Nope, I don't accept the UI is fine. The names should appear on the
staff style no matter what part of the page (in page view) is being
shown. At the moment, I have various names all over the place.
They seem to appear when they start, or at the beginning of a new
system. You want them to appear at the left of the screen, no matter
what part of the page is showing? Shouldn't be hard to accomplish on
MakeMusic's end; as I see this kind of thing in sequencers all the
time.
Darcy James Argue wrote:
> 3) Because even with the names off, it's easy to find the name of a
> staff style bar -- just right-click the bar.
>
Really? If I right-click on the style bar itself, I get only the name
of that style. If I right-click on the bar, I get the list of styles,
but no indication of which ones are applied.
Yes, that's right. You get the name of the style when you right-click
on it (or control click, on my Mac.) You want the whole list of what is
applied? Well, is it THAT hard to right-click three times?
But you can always ask for the feature.
Christopher
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