Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 02:59 AM 8/23/2006, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>Is there, currently, a way to apply the override key to a menu action?
>
>For instance, if I want to reposition a text block in *all* parts, I
>would normally go to a part, then hold down the command key and drag
>the text block. Okay, that works well enough. But what if I don't
>want to reposition by dragging? What if I want to reposition using
>the "Edit Frame Attributes" menu? Is there a way to invoke that menu
>in order to reposition an item in all parts simultaneously? Or are we
>limited to dragging with the override key down?
I just tried this. It looks like using the Edit Frame Attributes dialog
in a part *automatically* affects all parts and score -- REGARDLESS of
whether the item in the part is linked or unlinked. Grr.
Just another example of what many of us already knew -- in the computer
world, never put too much faith in version 1.0 of anything. ;-)
On the other hand, it's important for all of us to realize that while
these frustrations wouldn't happen in an ideal world, and the presence
of such justified complaints can make it seem as if linked score/parts
isn't such a good thing, for many projects, it works just fine.
The sorts of complaints that this has generated fairly accurately
mirrors (not in the specifics, but in the nature of the complaints and
the number of them) those on the Sibelius list when version 4.0
introduced linked score/parts for them.
Getting into the minutiae of what someone might want to be able to do
with such a feature reveals areas that will need further improvement,
but for many projects, such things as Darcy and Aaron are discussing
won't be important.
Of course, for those to whom such things ARE important, it will be quite
frustrating until MakeMusic releases a Finale upgrade which will contain
version 2 of linked score/parts.
--
David H. Bailey
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