IWBNI it were possible to abort long processes immediately. As it is now, there is no mechanism for aborting long processes in Finale on the Windows platform. On the Macintosh platform, some operations may be aborted by using Cmd-period. However, in many cases such operations (e.g. printing a large number of pages or redrawing large text blocks) are not aborted immediately.

Some examples of long processes are:

• Starting/running/launching the Finale program.

 
• Opening a file.

 
• Saving a file.

 
• Inserting a measure at the beginning of a large score.

 
• Changing the time signature of a large region in a large score.

 
• Applying note spacing to a large region in a large score.

 
• Using the search and replace operations of the note mover tool in a large score.

This could be implemented by allowing a keystroke to be pressed (e.g. Cmd-period on the Macintosh platform and Esc or Ctrl+period on the Windows platform) to abort any long processes.

Created: February 28, 2000 (based on a submission from Andrew Stiller)
Last Updated: February 28, 2000
Version: Finale 2000b