Chord Definition Dialogue Box Crashes Finale 26.3

[loff56]

It seems as though if you manually change something in the Chord Definition Dialogue Box and click OK Finale now crashes. If you change something and then make sure that the top box where it says "Chord Symbol:" is highlighted after you make the change elsewhere (in other words you have to go and click on that box again) then it doesn't crash.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior? (Or is it just me...!?)

Finale 26.3.0.634, Mac Catalina 10.15.4

[zuill]

I saw a post on the official MakeMusic forum regarding v26.3 crashing with the Chord Tool. I use Windows and you use Mac, so I would be curious if this is on both platforms. The poster on the "other" forum didn't mention the platform used, so I am waiting to install finale v26.3 until I get more information. It would be good to have a mac and a Win user check this behavior.

In their Read Me for v26.3, I see a mention of something being fixed regarding the Chord Tool. Sometimes when they "fix" things, other things get "broken". version 26.2 is proof of that. Fortunately, the 2 HUGE bugs there were fixed quickly with a Hot-Fix.

Zuill

[Peter Thomsen]

It seems as though if you manually change something in the Chord Definition Dialogue Box and click OK Finale now crashes. If you change something and then make sure that the top box where it says "Chord Symbol:" is highlighted after you make the change elsewhere (in other words you have to go and click on that box again) then it doesn't crash.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior? …

I can confirm this behavior.

You should report it to MakeMusic.

[loff56]

Thanks for confirming the issue Peter.
Reported it this morning, waiting to hear back.

In the meantime I did update Catalina to 10.15.5 and I trashed the Finale Preferences to see if either of those things would solve the problem... they did not. Same (consistent) behavior.

We'll see what MakeMusic has to say.

Thanks again.

[zuill]

I'm on Windows, so I reported it this morning with the question to them whether this is Mac only, or Windows as well. I don't want to update until this and other issues are resolved. This reminds me of the release of v26.2, which then had a quick hot-fix release.

Zuill

[Peter Thomsen]

This issue is not a Windows issue; it is Mac only (and only on Mac OS X versions 10.14 and 10.15).

loff56 wrote on the MakeMusic web site forum:

“However, I did submit this to tech support, and they wrote back and confirmed that this was indeed a reproducible crash introduced in 26.3 only on Mac OSX 10.14 and 10.15.”

[loff56]

UPDATE:

This has been fixed in the hotfix release today. Version 26.3.1 no longer crashes when leaving the Chord Definition Dialogue Box regardless of which field is highlighted.