Everything you state below is correct and easily reproducible. Hard to image that a change in the expression dbx would affect "undo" so drastically. I know I've gotten into situations where undo no longer works but was never quite sure why. Hope MM is monitoring the forum today to see your thread.
Thanks for the info/warning. Steve On 12/8/12 4:53 PM, "SN jef chippewa" <[email protected]> wrote: > >can anyone reproduce this (F2012) and confirm everything i write >below? before you do, SAVE ALL OPEN DOCS, you will need to close >without saving to revert and will need to reboot finale. > >if you can, let me know if you are on mac (like me) or PC > >1) call up dialogue for a text expression using opt-return on the handle >2) click on shape (bottom left) >3) the OK button is greyed out but works: exit dialogue to return to the >score > >the following should result: >- a blank appears with a handle (this is expected, since is now an >undefined shape instead of text) >- when you relaunch the dialogue the original text is gone (i think >this is intentional but find it poor design) >- the item no longer appears in the expression category list where it >was, but appears in the miscellaneous category list >- any metatool assignment has been removed from the original item and >is assigned to the next in the original list >- the original metatool assignment from the next item in the list has >been removed >- undo menu commands stop working, edit does not show up in list >- undo will not work in this or other docs until full restart of finale > >to undo what you have done, close without saving > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
