The document manager |
Configurations [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] The document manager has been designed to help you create,
modify and handle your musical documents within Pizzicato. It is displayed in the left part of the score view. For the
advanced versions of Pizzicato it is also in the conductor view.
In both cases, you may choose to display it or to hide it, with
the D check box just
above it, in the tool bar of the window. You can resize the part of the window dedicated to the
document manager. Just click and move the resize bar that makes
the limit between the score and the document manager. All Pizzicato versions have at least two configurations,
displayed at the top of the document manager. Two or more blue
buttons are used to switch between configurations. Configuration
number one has one default folder, My Scores, which
contains the documents you create: To reach configuration number two, just click on the
"2" button: It contains three folders. In the first one, you will find all
examples referred to in the music and Pizzicato course. The Music
folder contains a few examples and documents used in the more
advanced versions of Pizzicato. The last one, Backups
contains all the backup versions of your documents. You can
always open them to find an older version of a document, if a
document can no more be opened or when it has been corrupted. You should also read the two lessons about Handling
documents and windows (1) and Handling documents and windows (2)
as they explain the basic use of the document manager. Customizing the displayed folders [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] Configuration one keeps track of the documents you create when
you work with Pizzicato. The My Scores folder is in fact
located in the My documents / Pizzicato 3.5 folder
(Windows) or Applications / Pizzicato 3.5 folder (Mac).
The tree structure of that folder may be customized directly
within Pizzicato. See the next section. You can also add other folders in that area of the document
manager. For instance, you may prefer to store your personal
documents on another hard disk or in several different places on
your computer. Here is how to add these folders so that they can
also be reached and displayed through the document manager. The name of the full path displayed here will probably be
different on your computer, that is normal. By default, only one
path is defined, corresponding to the above explained My
Scores default folder. A path is in fact the full
name of a folder on your computer. It is the concatenation of the
names of folders and sub folders that lead to a specific folder. You can add a new path to an existing folder in the list with
the Add... button. A dialog lets you specify the folder
on your computer. You can delete a path from the list by using
the Delete button. Only the reference of that folder is
removed. The folder on your computer is not deleted. You can
organize the order of the list of folders by using the Up
and Down buttons, that simply move the folders up and
down in the list. When you select a path in the list, the lower part of the
dialog displays several options that you can modify for the files
in that folder: The Select... button can be used to select another
path (which is to say, another folder in which you can access
files). When you click OK, Pizzicato will update the area and
display the folders and files you selected. Files and folders operations [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] When you right click on the icons of the document manager
tree, you can reach a series of actions you can do on each one of
them. Here are the most common actions, for folders, documents
and scores. Please remember that a Pizzicato document is
in fact a file of the Windows or Mac operating system. They are
here represented by green icons in the document manager. Folders
that contain documents or other folders are in fact folders (also
called directories) of the Windows or Mac operating
system. One word of warning. The document manager is just another way
to access these files and folders, from inside Pizzicato. If you
move, create and delete files and folders in the document
manager, they will be in fact moved, created and deleted on your
hard disk. The Windows files Explorer or the Finder on Mac will
display the same files and folders. But you should not keep
Pizzicato running while you modify the files and folders with
Windows Explorer or the Finder, as Pizzicato may loose track of
which files have been moved or changed. You may modify the files
and folders structure outside Pizzicato, but be sure to exit
Pizzicato before doing so. When you start Pizzicato again, it
will then analyse the new structure and display it correctly. On a folder, you can do the following operations: On a Pizzicato document, you can do the following operations: On a score, inside a Pizzicato document, you can do the
following operations: You can also drag and drop a folder or a document to another
folder. This will move the document or folder. If you CTRL drag
and drop, Pizzicato will make a copy of the document or folder. For the more advanced versions, you can also drag and drop a
score from or to another document. This will copy the score into
the document. By double clicking a score, you display its content in the
score editor and you can edit it. By double clicking a Pizzicato document, the advanced versions
of Pizzicato will open the conductor view. Adding configurations and areas [Professional] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] The more advanced versions of Pizzicato have other
configurations. Most of them are related to the intuitive
composition tools and the selection and use of instruments. They
will be explored in the corresponding lessons. In Pizzicato Pro and Composition, you can
create custom configurations to make your work easier. The last
button is a "+" button. When you click it, a
new empty configuration is added. You can then edit it as
explained above. You can delete a configuration by clicking on its button while
holding the CTRL key. Pizzicato asks for confirmation. In this
case, only the display is modified and the files and folders from
that configuration will not be deleted from the disk. You will notice that in the advanced versions, some
configurations may display several areas of the document manager.
You can indeed add new areas to customize a configuration. To do
that, right click the background of a display area and you can
select to add an area to above or below, or even right or left,
which will create another column of the document manager. This
multiple area proposition is useful when you need to work and use
music elements that are found in various folders. You can
organize the screen so that you can see all needed folders and
then you can drag and drop from them without the hassle of moving
and changing the current folders for each operation. You can
create custom configurations like this: