07-17-2024, 05:57 AM
I'm not sure this is a feature request. I don't mean it to be a bug report. But I'm puzzled by this behavior.
If you select Half Page display mode and then "Show half page turn position on all pages," you get a "slider" displayed as a kind of half-page separator. The slider has two different transparencies, depending on whether the next turn will replace the top half-page or the bottom half-page. Let's call the more opaque version the "dark slider" and the more transparent one the "light slider".
Somewhat oddly, the light slider appears to have a fully transparent background and/or live in a layer below the staff/notation/etc. of the piece. This is nice. It's not in the way, but visible. But turn the page and the dark slider appears to have a solid white (rectangular) background and to live on top of notation on the page -- I.e., it obscures the notation. This is kind of a bummer because I'm finding that often it makes the last line displayed in the half page to be obscured to the point where it's unintelligible and unplayable. You basically lose an entire line of display there.
I don't know what the entire set of design goals are in this context, but can't both sliders have the same degree of transparency, or be placed in the same layer, so that material on the page isn't obscured by one of them?
If you select Half Page display mode and then "Show half page turn position on all pages," you get a "slider" displayed as a kind of half-page separator. The slider has two different transparencies, depending on whether the next turn will replace the top half-page or the bottom half-page. Let's call the more opaque version the "dark slider" and the more transparent one the "light slider".
Somewhat oddly, the light slider appears to have a fully transparent background and/or live in a layer below the staff/notation/etc. of the piece. This is nice. It's not in the way, but visible. But turn the page and the dark slider appears to have a solid white (rectangular) background and to live on top of notation on the page -- I.e., it obscures the notation. This is kind of a bummer because I'm finding that often it makes the last line displayed in the half page to be obscured to the point where it's unintelligible and unplayable. You basically lose an entire line of display there.
I don't know what the entire set of design goals are in this context, but can't both sliders have the same degree of transparency, or be placed in the same layer, so that material on the page isn't obscured by one of them?
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Gary H. Merrill
Gary H. Merrill