About the graying out of the plugin menu in part view:
David W. Fenton wrote:
It sounds like an unintentional bug,
No, I can assure you it was quite intentional.
the kind of thing that might be
fixed in a version update.
Possibly it will.
dhbailey wrote:
>
>, the developers
> figured that they would make us have to go back to score view
Except that graying out the plugin menu does no such thing. As I
explained before, this graying out is hardly more than a bump in the
road if you want to run a plugin on a part. Even MM's own modeless
plugins work in part view, notably FinaleScript.
> One guess as to why this will happen is that since changes in
> part-view will also happen in score view and might wreak more havoc
in > score view than one would imagine while in part view
In my experience, plugins are unaware of linked/unlinked status. If you
use a plugin to edit a linked item from part view, it changes both
views. However if the item is already unlinked, it changes only the
current view. If you know this, you can actually exploit it.
For many plugins, it only makes sense to run them in part view. A good
example of this is JW Space Systems. This plugin works beautifully in
part view, and it leaves the score completely unaffected.
If it were actually dangerous to run plugins against part view (and I
assure you that 99% of the time it is not), MM should have either a)
fixed the issue that was causing the danger or b) completely disabled
plugins in part view. What they did do is ineffectual as a barrier to
use yet pisses off anyone who tries to use it.
I have tested all of my plugins in part view, and in the few situations
where mine caused bizarre results they do not run in part view. (That
is, they flash you back to score view when you run them.) The two
functions I found in my own plugins where you could get into trouble
were (using a plugin) to
a) add a page to a part.
b) add staves to Scroll View in a part.
My plugins allow both of these, but the new versions force you to score
view to do it. Generally, I would steer clear of ever doing either of
these with a plugin while in part view. (Doesn't FinaleScript allow you
to add staves? If so, DON'T DO IT IN PART VIEW. It should be noted,
however, that Finale does essentially nothing to prevent you from doing
so, since FinaleScript is modeless.)
--
Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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