Re:Ctrl and Shift Copying of Clips - What Gives?
2012/10/24 00:25:21
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As a software developer myself (retired now), almost always in a release there are known issues with software - but many times due to a combination of internal pressure, market pressure, contractual obligation, media timing, etc., developers like Cakewalk simply have no choice but to release with a set of bugs.
This is why you always see a read me file, or errata sheet, or whatever, as things have to get released for manufacture and even then things change slightly between when discs are cut and product is shipped/release.
They will I am sure have done their very best to limit the issues - to eliminate any known show stoppers and limit the remainder in a prioritized fashion, as best they can determine.
I think something like 15 years ago, if memory serves, I remember Microsoft Word, just that 1 program, had well over a half million lines of code.
This stuff also has to be designed and built to run on an insane number of slightly or vastly different platforms - hardware and software combinations.
I would imagine this may well have been caught in testing but just may not have been able to have been addressed due to other constraints.
Hopefully, whenever they release the next X2 fix it will have a whole litany of things fixed. I think from what I have seen so far, there are fewer issues in X2 than when X1 hit - granted that had a seriously major UI redesign, but there are a number of internal changes in X2 that have seemed to have held up pretty well.
Sorry that particular issue is as annoying for you as it is - does the work-around take care of it for you, for now?
Bob Bone
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