Comments on: It’s The Little Things: Tiling windows on Mac

By: Steve Currington

Steve Currington — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:53:36 +0000

Tiling is very useful.. The only issue I find is that if each windows has a different score jumping between them takes time.. This is because each score loads the samples/instruments each time to focus on it rather than remembering what was there.

If I have say an orchestral score and a brass score that I am re-orchestrating (a real example in process right now) jumping between and reloading the instruments can get frustrating. That said it is still a quicker way than re-entering all the notes etc. by hand.

Just a shame the OPTION key does not copy the highlighted bars/notes between different scores. Still copy and past is only a few key strokes.

By: Frank Wales

Frank Wales — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:37:41 +0000

Am I the only person in the world who thinks “Tile vertically” should create a set of tiles that are stacked, while “Tile horizontally” should create tiles that are side-by-side?

I realize you’re probably just following the Windows convention, but, to me, ’tile’ is an action like ‘arrange’. If I were asked to arrange some things horizontally, I wouldn’t stack them.

Perhaps “Wide tiles” and “Tall tiles” would be more descriptive, albeit less cross-platformy.

By: Johnathan Wales

Johnathan Wales — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:29:08 +0000

I use it quite often.

By: Daniel Spreadbury

Daniel Spreadbury — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:38:01 +0000

That’s an interesting one, Trevor. It’s certainly possible that we might add it in a future version, but it’s rarely requested, and indeed I suspect that the Full Screen option is relatively rarely used even in the Windows version of Sibelius.

By: tjhewer

tjhewer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:36:53 +0000

What about fullscreen? Any chance of that feature making it over to the Mac?

By: www.dsmusic.co.uk

www.dsmusic.co.uk — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:14:01 +0000

Great – thanks for the update!