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I would like this to be kind of a survey of sorts, from the collected user-base here.

I still use Speedy Entry via a MIDI keyboard as my preferred method of entering and editing notes.  One of my pet peeves with Finale occurred probably over 10 years ago:  MM removed the Cancel button from the 'Too many notes in a measure' dialog box.

This forces one to interact with the window, and it remembers the setting from the previous invocation, which is fine.  But most of the time, I encounter this window due to a typo on my part, which is what it is.  Before, when the Cancel button was there, all I had to do was hit Cmd-period or Escape and be done with it, and get back to my workflow without a hiccup.  Now I am forced to interact with the dialog - I have to check to be sure one of the other options is not selected - basically making sure 'leave the measure alone' is selected.  A minor but recurring PITA.

Why can't MM reinsert the Cancel button?  This is, after all, a long-standing constant in the macOS GUI universe, and no one has ever explained the reasoning behind its removal.  Probably because a good, valid reason doesn't exist.  When one thinks about it, most all other dialogs have a Cancel button.  Why not here???

J D Thomas ThomaStudios

 

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I HAVE put this in 'feature request' until I"m blue in the face.  This is NOT a feature request; it's more of a feature reinstatement, if anything.  But it's not a feature; it's proper Mac GUI programming!

What I was trying to do with my post is to gauge the sentiment of the user base here as to using Speedy Entry and having to deal with this asinine dialog box.  Hence my initial statement as to a 'survey of sorts'.

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They had a function and removed it. You want it back. In other words, a feature request.

 

I can see the usefulness of the feature though I never used it in the past. Perhaps the way I used Speedy Entry, it was never an issue.

 

Have you asked MM Support for a workaround?

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