David W. Fenton wrote:
On 23 Nov 2005 at 6:25, dhbailey wrote:
Hesitating to reply to my own whining, I did find the solution to #2
although I don't recall ever having to do this before -- if I click
the radio button to Note-Attached, that setting is remembered from
setting to setting, and is what is placed when the cursor is the
solid-black one, and when the cursor is the white one which indicates
measure-attached, I really get measure-attached expressions.
You don't mention metatools, but there *is* the setting in the
Expressions menu for how Metatools behave. I don't know if that has
any impact on how regular clicks behave. Logically, it oughtn't, but
if logic were involved, you wouldn't be having problems in the first
place.
What I have found is that if I click the Note-Attached radio button, it
stays clicked in future sessions, and then I get context-sensitive
expressions (note-attached or measure-attached depending on the cursor's
appearance) but if the Measure-Attached radio button is checked, it
remains checked and I get ONLY measure-attached expressions unless I
change that radio button for specific expression placements.
My gripe is that if that is the behavior, those radio-buttons in the
expression dialog ought to be re-labeled to read: Measure-attached ONLY
and Context Sensitive. Or if MakeMusic wishes to leave the labels as
they are, there ought to be parentheses added with (Measure-attached
ONLY until the other radio button is clicked) and (Context Sensitive
until the other radio-button is clicked). And the appearance of the
cursor should reflect the state of those radio buttons. When
Measure-attached radio button is checked, the expression cursor should
NOT change appearance but should remain looking like the
Measure-Attached cursor all the time until the Note-Attached radio
button is checked, at which time the cursor should revert to its
two-state appearances and the expressions should be placed accordingly.
The meta-tools context-sensitivity works appropriately no matter the
state of the radio buttons, but sometimes scores have more than 26
different expressions, so metatools aren't always the answer.
Perhaps MakeMusic could add another switch in the Expressions menu
beneath the Metatools Context Sensitive option -- Expression Placement
Context Sensitive.
Setting that once would then make use of expressions in 2006 a lot
easier, in my opinion.
--
David H. Bailey
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