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Have you allowed for the fact that the title, composer, etc., take up a stave line on the first page? My experience is that when I set the stave to (say) 9, the first page has 8 staves plus a title line (= 9 lines) and subsequent pages have 9 staves.



Yes, I realize that that is what is going on -- that the title takes up a line. That is now mentioned in the help. But it's still a bug. If you look at your tune and see that it takes up 10 lines, you'll set "Number of staves" to 10. Then you'll print it, discover there are only 9 staves, so you have to go back, set staves to 10, and print it again (or use print preview).

The docs for Auto-set read:

"Band-in-a-Box will set the number of staves per page for you. This will be set when you enter the Print Dialog box, or change the range that you want to print (first /last chorus or whole song). This will be done to try to fit your printing onto 1 page."

Sorry to be snide, but the documentation for Auto-set should read "When you select auto-set, Band-in-a-Box will set the number of staves such that the last line of your music will be missing."

Note also, that the auto-set check box is ignored if you make any changes to the number of staves (e.g. set it to "3" and select auto-set, and it will display 2 staves). But then the next time you come back to the print setup dialog, it will have been changed.

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Also, after coming out of "suspend", how long did you wait to determine that the program had crashed?



Good point, but I think I've waited long enough, and have also spend something like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to kill bbw.exe without rebooting.

Note that the problems occur in other situations that don't involve suspending the computer -- that's just one way of reliably inducing the error. I'd estimate that 30% of the time I exit BIAB, I get a message saying there was a problem, and that it will send data to the producer of the app. I haven't taken the time to figure out exactly what it is that I am doing that causes these.

I'd like repeat that I think BIAB is a wonderful application. It's both the best and the worst app on my system. The basic problem is that the geniuses that came up with it, aren't familiar with standard windows conventions.

BIAB is like an incredibly strong, agile sports car with the accelerator pedal on the left, and the brake on the right.