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Dialog Enhancer - Enhancements

The Enhancements part of the Dialog Enhancer will provide additional functionality for Finale's own dialog boxes. You can set the wanted feature set individually for each supported dialog. Below is an example of an 'enhanced' dialog:


1 All Finale dialogs that are enhanced have this icon. Right-click on the icon to bring up the context menu. (Ctrl+Alt+Space will also bring up the Enhancements context menu.)
Center dialog Centers the dialog.
Restore opened position Reverts to the screen position the dialog had when it was opened.
Revert settings Revert to the settings the dialog had when it was opened.
Original/Default settings Revert to the settings the dialog had when the Dialog Enhancer was first installed.
Copy all settings Copy all settings in the dialog to a permanent clipboard. Each enhanced dialog has its own separate slot in the clipboard.
Paste all settings Paste from the permanent clipboard.
2 Holding down the <Alt> key will turn the Cancel button into a Revert button. Click on the button while the <Alt> key is down to revert the settings to the state the dialog had when it was opened. (This feature works in the same was as in many products by Adobe, such as Photoshop.)
3 Holding down the <Shift> key while selecting an enhanced dialog will bypass the dialog (the dialog will not be displayed). It will be the same as pressing the Ok button.
This feature is useful when you want to perform a command that has settings dialog prior to the processing, and when you know that the already available settings are the ones you want to use.



1 The list of dialogs have 4 check box columns:
  Sticky positions column:
- Use sticky positions for the enhanced dialog, and store the positions permanently.
- Use sticky positions, but only within the current Finale session. When Finale is restarted, the dialog positions will be reset to Finale's default position.
- Don't use sticky positions.
Sticky settings column:
- Use sticky settings for the enhanced dialog, and store the settings permanently.
- Use sticky settings, but only within the current Finale session. When Finale is restarted, the settings will be reset to Finale's default position.
- Don't use sticky settings for the enhanced dialog.
Column for the dialog bypass feature (holding down the <Shift> key while selecting the dialog from Finale's menu):
- Support the bypass feature for this enhanced dialog.
- Don't support the bypass feature.
Column for the revert feature (holding down the <Alt> key within an enhanced dialog):
- Support the revert feature for this enhanced dialog.
- Don't support the bypass feature.

- Sort the list items by clicking on the column headers. Sort in reverse order by clicking once again.
- Resize the Dialog name column by dragging the divider between the Dialog name and Match column headers.

Right-click in the list to display an item/column-specific context menu:
Remove position data Remove the sticky position data for the selected item.
Remove settings data Remove the sticky settings data for the selected item.
This row Submenu with commands that will change the states of the check boxes for this item.
This column Submenu with commands that will change the states of the check boxes for this column. Please note that this submenu will not be available if you right-click in the 'Dialog names' column.
2 Press the Apply button to make the current changes permanent. (All boxes that was green will now turn black.)
Hold down the <Ctrl> key to close the dialog afterwards.
3 Right-click on the background to display the context menu with general settings and commands:
Remove all stored positions Removes all sticky position data for the enhanced dialogs.
Remove all stored settings Removes all sticky settings for the enhanced dialogs.
Remove all stored clipboard data Removes all clipboard data for the enhanced dialogs.
Safety check for this page Controls if a safety message box should be displayed if the user closes the dialog without applying the changes.
Revert to last saved state Reverts all check boxes to the state at the last 'Apply'.
Save positions at Cancel/Close Controls if dialog positions should be saved when the user presses the Cancel button in a enhanced Finale dialog.
Save settings at Cancel/Close Controls if the current settings should be saved when the user presses the Cancel button in an enhanced Finale dialog
Enhancement icons in dialog Controls if the enhancement icon should be displayed in the title bar of Finale's dialogs. Be aware that the context menu functionality will be lost if the icon is removed.
Hints Controls if hint texts should be displayed at the mouse pointer for this dialog page.
Forza! Submenu with WWW links to help/support.


Some additional notes:
- Sticky settings (and the copy/paste and revert features) are not supported for Finale dialogs with "multiple layers" of settings. This is dialogs where all settings that can be changed aren't displayed at the same time.
- Sticky settings are disabled for all document settings dialogs.

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