I'm not a big fan of Score Manager, but I would remind you that it is a modeless dialog. You can open the staff attributes any time you get ready just by double-clicking the staff.
The basic problem I see is that MM is trying to introduce a UI concept, "Instrument", that (at least as of now) does not exist in the data. Thus, any choice of what to put in which dialog is purely arbitrary. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Randolph Peters <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Finale Listers, > > I just spent a few days creating a new master full orchestra template in > Finale 2012b. It takes longer now. > > Some of the functions that used to belong in the staff attributes are now > in the Score Manager. I find that having to open up separate windows to > complete each staff and fill out all the properties (names, abbreviations, > positions, fonts, MIDI settings, etc.) is very cumbersome. > > My question for the list is would it be a bad idea to be able to access > the same window or dialog box from different places in the program? Or > would that be too confusing? > > In other words, why can't we fill out those properties that I mentioned > above from BOTH the staff attributes and the Score Manager? > > And while we are at it, how about a previous and next arrow so that we can > fill out the categories in one pass? Even iTunes has a better interface > here. > > When MM changes Finale, as they need to from time to time, they absolutely > have to be mindful of: > > 1) not creating new bugs, > 2) not taking away functionality, > 3) not slowing down the work process. > > This is a complaint of the third kind. > > Grumble, > Randolph Peters > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
