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Chapter 12: Other New Features 53
Chapter 12: Other New Features
File Associations.
New menu items have been added to Associate (or remove Associations for)
the file types for Band-in-a-Box songs and styles in Explorer. Once set, this
means that you can double click on a song or style in Explorer and Band-in-a-
Box will open up with that song or style.
Choose the new menu items File | File Utilities | Associate Files to associate
the BB file types, and Remove Associations to remove the associations.
File Selection Dialog Enhancements.
The custom file selection dialog has been enhanced. There is a
Search
button
allowing you to find a file in the directory. The dialog box now opens with the
current file highlighted
in the list. There is a
favorite directories
feature that
lets you quickly return to a directory that you've used recently. There is a
Desktop
button that quickly changes the current directory to the desktop.
Tip: The custom file dialog can be accessed by pressing Ctrl-Shift-F3 to load a
song, or choosing Options | Preferences2 | Display Filenames | Long
Filenames- custom.
Once you launch this dialog:
The search button allows you to search for a file.
The Favorites Directory button remembers the last few directories that
you've used, allowing you to easily change between directories.
The desktop button allows you to view the desktop quickly.
You can now
open a song without typing the extension
. For example, to
open the song MySong.MGU you just have to type MySong, without having to
type .MGU.
Long file names
are now better supported for 2000 and XP.
Animated Drum Window Enhancements
The popular drum window has been enhanced. The drums that you play now
show up in
green
(the computer played drums are red). There is an option to
display all the QWERTY names
on the drums at the same time, so that you
can see what keys to hit without having to mouse over the instrument. The
drums can be
moved off-screen
without snapping back to the middle. To
display the QWERTY keys on the notes, select the option on the Drums
Window to “Display QWERTY Chars on Drums.”