On 7 Jul 2005 at 1:01, Owain Sutton wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 6 Jul 2005 at 15:41, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > > >>It's not just the dynamic parts. Going through Sib 4, I'm finding > >>lots of nice, little features Finale would do well to implement: > >> > >> Translucent palettes (or "tool windows" as Sibelius calls them) > > > > What use is there for this? Just to make it more Mac-like? > > I use transparent windows all the time (see my other reply on this). > Nothing to do with Macs, just a different way of using a GUI. It > should be minimal work to make such an option available.
Well, on the Mac, yes, as it's part of the basic Quartz architecture. I thought Windows wasn't getting the useless transparent dialogs until Avalon, with the release of Longhorn. > Actually, what I would love would be a vertical icon-menu on the left, > each icon representing one tool, and giving a mouseover slide-out of > the present toolbars. I still don't get it. What value is having transparency in a palette or dialog, unless the palette or dialog is not movable? That would seem to be a design error that would be better fixed by making the blocking windows movable, rather than by making content behind them show through. I can only see transparency as something that makes it harder to view the windows that's on top, and gives you minimal viewing of the content beneath. I just don't get it, other than for the WAY COOL factor. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
