On 7/23/2016 10:50 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > This is Finale internals now. Sorry to bore you with techy stuff, but > Finale is at heart a piece of software with internals. Despite appearances, > it's not magic. > > Each frame (which is a single layer on a single bar of a single staff) has > an ID. Once the ID is assigned it never changes. So if if you delete one > and add another you'll leave a gap in the numbers. The ID is a 16-bit > value. No one, least of all anyone at MM I would guess, thinks a 16-bit > value makes any sense for a program in 2016. But this is a design decision > that goes all the way back to the 1980s when it did make sense, and it is > really, really hard to change. >
Interesting that such a dinosaur of a counting mechanism should still exist -- one of the reasons given for there being no Finale2013 was that they were rewriting the code in order to modernize it. Was that just a bunch of b.s. to mask their superstitious avoidance of the number 13? -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
