No. 49

Improve Speed of Copying Partial Measures Across Windows

IWBNI it the process of copying partial measures from one window to another were completed more quickly.

Create two fairly large scores consisting of 6 staves with 300 bars or 1 staff with 1500 bars. Select the mass mover tool and select Edit>Select Partial Measures. Select a partial measure in one window and drag it into the other window. It takes about 16 seconds to complete this operation (on a pentium 200 w/MMX). IWBNI this operation were completed in one second.

Note: If the time signature of the source and target bars is identical and double-click is used
to select the entire source bar, the copy operation is completed in one second.



Created: March 15, 1999
Last Updated: November 27, 1999
Version: Finale 2000b