Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b

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2013/10/14 14:31:36 (permalink)

Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b

1.  No longer necessary to hold CTRL when right-clicking and calling up the process menu.  Definitely welcome.
 
2.  Now, when selecting a group of notes, you don't unselect them just by clicking on a blank area, but rather you have to click and drag a little.  This is actually a good thing for me because the old way it was too easy to accidentally unselect notes that I didn't want to unselect. 
 
3.  It's now easier to right click and get the note's property menu when the the note is on a ledger line below the staff.
 
4.  The snap-to function seems to work better.  Even if the values of the snap are small (i.e. 60 ticks), it is now easier to enter, say, an eighth note, exactly where it should be. 
 
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    dan le
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    Re: Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b 2013/10/14 15:13:59 (permalink)
    [[3.  It's now easier to right click and get the note's property menu when the the note is on a ledger line below the staff.]]
     
    Hello, I just found out by accident about 2 weeks ago, that you don't have to right click right on  the note, but for those hard notes to click on, click on outside of the note, but very close to the note will get you to the property menu.
     
    Best.
     
     
     
     
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    Re: Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b 2013/10/14 16:00:26 (permalink)
    Glad to hear of any improvement in SV.
    Thanks for posting this.
     
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    Re: Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b 2013/10/14 16:06:14 (permalink)
    Thanks for this good news. 
     
    I am puzzled, because I thought I read that a Cakewalk rep said there were no changes to the Staff View in X3. 
     
    The reasons given several years ago for not updating it were essentially 1) it's not a priority and 2) the code was too old to be worked on.  You have given us some hope about the second reason.
     

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    Re: Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b 2013/10/14 16:25:41 (permalink)
    Cool, thanks for the heads up!
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    Re: Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b 2013/10/14 16:41:24 (permalink)
    dan le
    [[3.  It's now easier to right click and get the note's property menu when the the note is on a ledger line below the staff.]]
     
    Hello, I just found out by accident about 2 weeks ago, that you don't have to right click right on  the note, but for those hard notes to click on, click on outside of the note, but very close to the note will get you to the property menu.
     
    Best.
     
     
     
     


    yep.  Exactly.  Easier in X3 than in X2.  Also, if it's hard in X2, just use the Event Inspector and make changes there (for those still using X2).
     
     
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    Re: Small, but Important, Improvements to Staff View in X3b 2013/10/14 16:42:42 (permalink)
    riojazz
    Thanks for this good news. 
     
    I am puzzled, because I thought I read that a Cakewalk rep said there were no changes to the Staff View in X3. 
     
    The reasons given several years ago for not updating it were essentially 1) it's not a priority and 2) the code was too old to be worked on.  You have given us some hope about the second reason.
     


    If you look at the changes in X3b, you'll see there are some updates to the staff view, including some of the ones I mentioned.  Unfortunately, the dotted/tied triplet issue will most likely never be addressed.
     
    JG
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