On 10 Jun 2004, at 10:58 AM, Harold Owen wrote:
Dear Matthew, Brad, and Darcy,
On 09 Jun 2004, at 07:17 PM, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
Yes. Turn off the message bar -- that helps a *lot*.
I've been having problems with the message bar turning itself on and off all
the time. To turn it off it's necessary to do the menu item twice, and then
ignore the presented menu status. The first time it's turned off, the text
of the message bar disappears, but the coloured bar remains. Then turning
it off again gets rid of it, until an indeterminate event when it will turn
itself back on again. Sigh.
I should have been more clear, because this *is* confusing. Turning off the Message Bar in the Program Options doesn't work. You have to leave it on there. But, once your document is open, select "Hide Message Bar" from the View menu. You will have to do this with every new window, so a QuicKey or iKey is invaluable here. The blue progress bar will *always* show up, but that's not a problem. It's only a problem when the Message Bar is actually showing, because for some reason it takes more processing power for Finale to update the "Processing Measure X Layer Y" message in the message bar than it does to actually process the plugin. That display is what slows things down -- if you follow the steps I outlined above, you can get it to go away, and Mass Edit and plugin operations will be much speedier. Another good idea is to switch to a different application after applying a time-consuming plugin. Counterintuitively, often this speeds the processing of the plugin. (Don't ask me why, but I've timed this, and it's reliable -- provided you're not also doing all kinds of heavy lifting in the application you switch to.)
I'm on FinMac2k4b. Once I have turned off "Show Message Bar" in a file and "Show All Messages" in Program Options/View and Save Preferences, it doesn't show up in any other files I open. Isn't this the correct expectation?
Nope. First off, "Show All Messages" has nothing to do with the Message Bar -- rather, it controls alert dialogs such as the one that comes up when you try to apply two conflicting staff styles. Second, when you turn off "Show Message Bar" in the View menu and save preferences, the next time you launch Finale, the message bar will still appear. The control that is *supposed* to work is "Program Options -> New- > Show Message Bar" (uncheck the box), but it doesn't actually work. What happens is that the message bar continues to draw *over* the top ruler -- or, if the rulers are off, over the top of the screen -- and this will continue to dramatically slow down large Mass Edit operations or plugins.
The only way to get the benefit of turning the Message Bar off is to leave it *on* by default (in Program Options -> New... ) and then turn it *off* for every window. Obviously, this is a job for QuicKeys or iKey.
- Darcy
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