Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 06:48 PM 10/11/2005, dhbailey wrote:
>Having Text Search and Replace in the Edit menu makes perfect sense.
>The question isn't why it's in that menu, but rather why did it have to
>wait until plug-in technology came along, and even then why was it in
>the Plug-in menu at all, when it's clearly an Edit menu function (at
>least in practically every other Windows program I've ever used.)
I know you're being somewhat rhetorical here, but of course TSAR was in
the Plugins menu because it was developed as a plugin, not as an
integral part of Finale. (I don't know whether it was developed by
Robert Piechaud, author of FinaleScript, or whether it was based on the
S&R plugin that Jari Williamson wrote.) I'll grant you that someone
coming to Finale 2006 with no prior experience is more likely to look
for such a thing under Edit -- unless they read the promotional material
which calls it a plugin, or read the note I mentioned which *says* it's
under Plugins.
I think that MakeMusic will be moving more and more things out of the
plug-in menu and into the main menus. The new mid-measure repeats stuff
is plug-in material yet they placed it in the repeats menu, as well as
moving the Simple Repeat and 1st-ending/2nd-ending Repeat from plug-ins
to Repeats.
I bet they will do more of that so that more and more plug-ins look like
core functionality instead of after-thought.
I be they even add a couple of new "tools" which will be nothing but
collections of plug-ins moved from the Plug-In menu.
--
David H. Bailey
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