You would think they might be able to manage to store that frame ID as a 32-bit integer, allowing 2 billion frames. --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed test From: "Robert Patterson" <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> Date: 7/24/16 9:02 am To: "finale" <finale@shsu.edu>
I don't think it was b.s. I think changing is quite risky and difficult, and Alfred and Hal Leonard never hit the limit with pop chart lead sheets so it isn't a priority. On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 2:43 AM, David H. Bailey < dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
