Jonathan Smith wrote:
While I'm on a rant, which clever Trevor decided to pop in the "Items
to copy" dialogue EVERY time I want to mass mover copy something.
(Someone, please tell me there is way out of this annoyance, maybe
hidden deep in a program options menu that has a double sub dialogue
that they have altered 4 times since v 3.5 and is now also located
under the MIDI menu/playback/Gargantuan Personal Pain
Instruments/Contact Make Music..etc..etc. menu option, but hey! ikey
could get me there in one keystroke ;-)) This never happened in 2005
and before. For years I hounded Make Music to make the mass mover
selections 'savable'. Finally in v2006 they did that, but on pain of
2 dialogue boxes to get the same job done! This is a move backwards
not forwards.
To bypass, just use opt-click to copy -- the most recently used "Items
To Copy" list is applied. The dialog only shows up when you use
opt-shift-click.
- Darcy
Ah, ah! At last, pain relief in the form of the option key. Why they
can't just put a "Don't show this again" check box in the Items to Move
dialogue I'll never figure.
Because often you might want to move different items each time you try
to move something. You might just want to moved notes one time, you
might just want to move expressions another time. Having two different
key combinations so that we can at all times have both possibilities
(selecting what to move, or moving what we most recently selected to
move) is a good thing.
Using what had been the old "move what I've told you to move" key
combination to be the new "What items would you like to move this time"
function is what is stupid. The old behavior should have remained as it
is, and a new combination should have been incorporated for the "what
items would you like to move this time" function.
Such a usage of long-time behavior to get new results shows a lack of
regard for long-time users at the expense of new users for whom it will
be easy for them to simply ctrl-click to copy. Of course, new users
could just as easily have learned the old ctrl-shift-click behavior, and
we could ALL have learned that ctrl-click would bring up the
items-to-copy dialog.
Oh well, progress. Just gotta keep reading that "What's New"
documentation and pray that it really lists all the new additions and
all the changes from previous behavior.
--
David H. Bailey
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