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motet
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Post by motet » Sun May 24, 2020 7:24 pm

I'm trying to report all the bugs I can. I've got Finale 26 but have not installed it since I'm in the middle of a big project and I'm wary of it breaking something (even if I keep the old program, which I always do).

On the off chance that they've fixed a bug I notice in Finale 2014.5 on Windows, if someone could confirm the bug still exists, that would be great.

First off:

Preferences/Display colors

If I uncheck Use score colors and click Apply, nothing happens--layer 2 stays red, for example; I must click OK and close the dialog for it to take effect (sometimes I want to turn off score colors, take a screen capture, then turn it right back on, so it would be nice to leave the dialog open). If Use score colors was initially unchecked, however, then Apply does work.
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Post by zuill » Sun May 24, 2020 7:42 pm

Same behavior in v26. Old bugs die hard.

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Post by motet » Sun May 24, 2020 8:20 pm

Thanks, Zuill!

Here's another. The tremolos here were made from tuplets of two eighths in the space of 7 32nds. May or may not be strictly Kosher, but I think the notation is perfectly readable and clear.

It doesn't copy right, as you can see. Even worse, if you Undo, the notes are gone forever. I've attached the before-copy file.
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Post by zuill » Sun May 24, 2020 9:22 pm

That is pretty strange. Could the overlapping of the 2 tuplets be the cause?

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Post by motet » Sun May 24, 2020 9:59 pm

That's a good theory. The tremolo tool adds the "1" tuplet and hides the number and bracket. I guess that's to get the beams.
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Post by motet » Sun May 24, 2020 10:05 pm

I should have written this. It has the same problem.
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Post by motet » Sun May 24, 2020 10:43 pm

I did figure out how to do it without the duplet. The note values before applying the plug-in are double-dotted sixteenths. After the plug-in, the tremolos are dotted, of course, but you can move them off the page. This one copies correctly, but the other is still a bug!
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