On 15 Aug 2006 at 14:14, dc wrote: > Tyler Turner écrit: > >Is it [Unicode support] requested as much as any of the major > >features implemented in Finale over the past few years? Not by a long > >shot. > > Textured paper springs to mind...
>From a programming standpoint, textured paper was one of the very easiest features that could be implemented. And my understanding is that it actually is more pleasant to view your work onscreen with these backgrounds than without them. In other words, nice, subtle benefit to users with no major problems implementing it. Why would any competent programmer *not* implement such a feature? I can see one reason: because annoyed users like you guys would constantly bitch about it as though implementing it caused some major feature/bug fix to be left out. That's completely implausible for a feature like this as it's something that is simply very easy to implement precisely because it has very little overlap with anything else in the program. There are probably no side effects from implementing it and it likely required changing only one small block of code. That's *exactly* the kinds of changes that you should *want* to go to the top of the list, since they can be made quickly and easily. That the benefit is relatively small and "merely" cosmetic is not really relevant -- it's the cost/benefit ratio that matters, and in this case, the decision was made that it was justified. My bet is that leaving it out would not have gotten even one other thing fixed in its place. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
