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John Ruggero
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Post by John Ruggero » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:03 pm

Zuill, I think those bugs should be reported once again. And they should continue to reported until they are fixed.
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Post by John Ruggero » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:10 pm

Motet,maybe I am incurably naive, but I find threads like the following (which includes a mention of you and a follow-up response from MM) very encouraging:

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... -Designer-

But I will withhold actual excitement until results are forthcoming.
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Post by motet » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:15 pm

There are literally dozens if not hundreds of bugs; the one where if you have multiple regions with some measures omitted from numbering, changing the attributes of a measure can cause some different measure to be changed comes to mind as a particularly egregious one they don't bother to fix. Not to mention crashing and trashing of the "preferences" file.

I hope you're right that giving it a case number is encouraging. Finding and fixing bugs may be harder for them than implementing new things, though.

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Post by motet » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:20 pm

On Windows there's a bug wherein some users are unable to save their work (due to improper handling of temp files). Really bad. This should be of the highest priority, yet it's persisted through at least two versions.

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Post by miker » Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:27 am

John Ruggero wrote: ...but that no exact time frame could promised.
"Hell freezing over" comes to mind...
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