I've been dealing head-on with this metatool bug since Finale 2005, and finally, just recently, I got MM to admit they were aware of the bug. Alas, no solution is imminent. Restarting the Mac was the ONLY solution that actually did work and for me, in an average 3-5 hour editing session, I will encounter it several times. I do use a ton of metatools when I work in Finale.
However, one user on the Finale user board suggested that when it happens again to run your fingers across the keyboard and numeric keypad a few times. I thought is was flaky but IT WORKS. And in my experience over the past couple months, it works just about every time. Try it. J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:59 AM, Andrew Levin wrote: > Jeff wrote: > > i discovered i can create the stuck metatool key problem in a very > specific instance. > > after running an iKey script (cmd-g for Go to page), i get the > problem with whatever metatool is assigned to "g" (articulation, > expression). > > i haven't been able to reproduce it for any other key, but am > starting to notice that "t" and "a" are also common victims of this > bug. has anyone else noticed any consistency in the keys that get > stuck? i'm now convinced it is not a random thing and am wondering > if maybe there is something in a particular menu that is causing this > problem. > > I don't know if this will help. I don't even use iKey. But I periodically get > stuck metatools, across many metatools. And no matter what key I strike, > always the same articulation, or expression, or whatever, displays. > > Quitting Finale doesn't work. Even restarting the computer won't work (I'm on > Mac). I find only shutting down the computer and starting up again fixes it. > > This bug bit me again last week, though it had shied away for so long. This > is my (not good) solution. > > Andrew Levin > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
