On Jun 28, 2009, at 9:11 AM, dhbailey wrote:
DANIEL CARNO wrote:
Interesting thread guys,
First of all, you can right-click directly on an object in
Sibelius and
bring up the context menu.
The properties window is brought to the screen with a keyboard
shortcut.
Since Sibelius allows for re-mapping the keyboard to implement
most of its
features, I have programmed the letter "P" to bring up the
properties box,
instead of the Sibelius default, "Playback".
Hope this clears a few things up.
I'd just like to add that practically everything Sibelius can do
can be mapped to keyboard shortcuts from within the program, user-
definable. No need for QuickKeys or any other macro-keyboard
program to run in the background. It is possible to do away with
the Sibelius numpad entry system and to define things in a manner
which makes sense to the user, not forcing the user to use
keystrokes that make sense to a programmer.
Things are not as obtuse as some people are making them sound.
Imagine people dabbling with Finale and not finding how to do
things holding this conversation about how obtuse Finale is.
Both programs could use UI improvements, but at least Sibelius lets
the user try to come up with a better system which is individualized.
Dennis B-K posted on this subject at length a couple of years ago (he
may even have an article online somewhere!) and he says (and I agree)
that UI design is extremely important insofar as factory assignments
of shortcuts is concerned. Yes, we want to be able to edit them if
they don't suit us, but YES! we want carefully researched and chosen
shortcuts pre-assigned, out of the box by default. For example, in
previous versions, metatools for dynamics were not preassigned.
Starting from (I think) version 2002, 4 for forte and 7 for piano,
with all the others stepped in between, is so simple and logical, yet
I didn't think of it when I was coming up with my own homegrown
assignments, and I gladly adhered to the intelligently-chosen Finale
defaults as soon as I could.
I am impressed, in fact, with a lot of Finale's preassigned metatools
and how logical and easy-to-remember they are, and especially with
how large numbers of them fit easily under one hand (two handed
metatools slow me down!) and especially again with how many of them
fit under my LEFT hand, so I don't have to let go of my mouse. I
never would have thought of these myself, and would have ended up
with the edges of my monitor upholstered with Post-Its reminding me
of what metatools I assigned where. (I am presently down to five Post-
Its total.)
Don't forget, too, that TG Tools (pro version) lets you come up with
all kinds of keystroke equivalents that Finale wouldn't allow. I
deplore the necessity of this third-party solution, but at least one
exists for the pro user.
Christopher
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