>>Measure Tool >>* In the Measure Attributes dialog box, double-clicking on a barline >>selection no longer dismisses the dialog box. > >Hey! I *loved* that feature! Why in the world are they dropping it?? >-- >Andrew Stiller
Because double clicking to dismiss the dialog is incompatible with the three-state nature of the controls in the dialog. I am happy to share with you my comments from the code: // 9/24/2002 RES (#927132): Two clicks on a button in multimeasure // mode makes that button ambiguous. But BN_DOUBLECLICKED // will be preceeded by BN_CLICKED, so therefore BN_DOUBLECLICKED // makes the button ambiguous! // // But just ignoring double click here does not solve the // problem. Basically, the idea of dismissing the dialog with // a double click conflicts with the three state aspect of // the buttons. For example: select several measures with // normal barlines. Click final bar. Now double click final // bar. Now, assuming we are ignoring the double click but // forwarding it to click OK, the first click of the double // click makes the button ambiguous, and the second click // dismisses the dialog before you see what happens! // // I have fixed this by not allowing double click to dismiss // the dialog. It is the lesser of the evils. I would also like to observe that allowing a double click in one place to dismiss a dialog but not another is inconsistent UI design. Inconsistency makes a program harder to use, and Finale has often be accused here and elsewhere of being inconsistent. It seems to me if you want double clicks to dismiss dialogs, that should be available anywhere (presumably limited to radio buttons, but there it is again -- inconsistency). Finally, I'm sure you are aware that it is very easy now to set barlines from the context menu. Randy Stokes, Coda -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Stiller To: finale list Sent: 12/11/2002 3:05 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] 2003a fixes (from Readme file) >Measure Tool >* In the Measure Attributes dialog box, double-clicking on a barline >selection no longer >dismisses the dialog box. > Hey! I *loved* that feature! Why in the world are they dropping it?? -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
