Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 09:48 PM 09/23/2005, Richard Bartkus wrote:
>It hasn't been an issue until now, but how can I get the starting measure
>for playback active ? It's grayed out and I cannot figure out how to
make
>it active
On the playback toolbar, click on the icon on the right that looks like
a speaker. Under Playback Region, set it to start at the current counter
setting.
(This is bad design, but it makes a little sense if you think about it.
If you have the playback region set to always start in a particular
place, or to start from the leftmost measure, then there's no need to
set a measure number. So that edit box is disabled unless you want to
start from the current counter setting.)
The bad design makes no sense at all, because it comes set to playback
from leftmost measure, with no indication as to how to make the number
setting work, nor even why it's there.
It should come with the default set to playback from whichever measure
number is entered, and the other choices should be what a user has to
figure out how to do, rather than as it comes now.
Or there should be three playback buttons -- 1) Leftmost on-screen
measure; 2) measure 1; 3)indicated measure number. Just three tiny
playback buttons with meaningful icons. They wouldn't take up very much
toolbar space, and with them all visible, we could pick and choose from
situation to situation without having to dig deeper into the program to
try to figure out how to get something which appears on screen (whether
we're using it or not) to work.
--
David H. Bailey
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