Mouse hover over is disruptive while editing a show.

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In my show I have expanded a section of the timeline to get the details on a more granular level. Sometimes (actually often and annoying) my mouse inadvertently hovers over the slider bar at the bottom and moves the timeline.  Usually it jumps around wildly all over the place before I realize what happened. Is there a way to disable the mouse hover so I don’t accidently lose my spot while I am editing?  Checking here to see if anyone has a solution for that.   Thanks.

 

Patrick

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Hi Patrick,

 

The horizontal scroll bar below the timeline doesn’t have any kind of hover-to-scroll behavior, so there isn’t a setting you can disable. What you’re describing is almost certainly a case where the scroll bar gets “latched” to the mouse because Finale 3D isn’t detecting the mouse-up event. In other words, an inadvertent click or touchpad tap is being interpreted as a continuous hold, so the pointer stays bound to the scroll bar until you explicitly click again.

 

It’s definitely not a feature — just a bug. We’ve seen it before, but we still haven’t identified the underlying cause, and unfortunately there isn’t a quick or reliable short-term fix. It is on our bug list, though, and I’m really sorry for the frustration it’s causing.

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