On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 04:52 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > Also, from a more practical standpoint, if Coda makes Finale > more user-friendly (not necessarily improving notation > capabilites, but completely rewriting the interface so that > beginners have an even easier time than they already do, > compared to when many of us began with the program) AND make it > into a killer MIDI app, then the user base will expand > exponentially, bringing a huge influx of new development > dollars which can THEN be spent on improving the notation > capabilities to where you would think they were perfected.
Yes, good point. > This Fin2K3 ability to use different tool-bar icons is such a > waste of development money and does absolutely nothing to > improve the user interface,... A few folks have told me they could care less about the new icons but I believe they are valuable because they are a part of the voicing of modern user interfaces. Interfaces which you can control so as to change aspects of the visual mood you work in. I can reasonably imagine that Coda has done this now as a first step in Finale having a much more flexible user interface. On the Macintosh at least, the newer icon types have APIs to create composites and blends, change the background colors, use the system label colors, etc. While the older icon types are still supported, eventually, they will be discarded in favor of the more advanced types and since they are something that could be implemented on both platforms for this version, it seems logical to me to have proceeded with it. Alas, I sure do wish that would have happened _after_ the OS X port! Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca § _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
