"if they are ever going to remove pre-existing pickers, a very cautious approach is required"
It had been generally agreed that a year, should be sufficient to address all bugs, etc.
The obvious... it will highly unlikely to happen in 2024. But you are saying: "And keep in mind that some existing users might want to have the option"
I assume you are against the idea of removal?
No, actually perhaps you have missed the point I was trying to articulate. I personally am not against removal of the original pickers. Not at all. I don't believe I ever stated that. But some users might be. The same way that some users continue to use the original user interface when the new user interface has been available for at least 7 years. It's got absolutely nothing to do with 'big buttons' at all. Some users are probably very comfortable with the way they use the program and might not want to change. I'm just throwing it in there that other users might want to have the option to continue working the same way as they have always worked. Not me, but I'm not everybody. I hope this clarifies OK.
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Also, having 2024 installed along side 2023 does something to the coordinates in the 2023 forms where the buttons or text are in the wrong position, as you can see above in the 2023 Style Picker, same in the F5 dialog.
The Regen dialog gets in the way of picking the track you want, and how many times do you hit the Generate button by accident instead of Part Gen that stuffs up the whole track, and then you try to undo and it don't work. Then the other issue is it won't clear, delete, erase or cut the track, it just stays there.
The Regen dialog gets in the way of picking the track you want, and how many times do you hit the Generate button by accident instead of Part Gen that stuffs up the whole track, and then you try to undo and it don't work. Then the other issue is it won't clear, delete, erase or cut the track, it just stays there.
I have always wanted to know whether to generate everything? Or is it just the chosen track?
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