Google Summer of Code 2020, Albums, Summary

Albums Pull Request
All my Pull Requests during GSoC

Project Description

The goal of this project was to bring back MuseScore 2's Albums feature and improve on it so that it satisfies the needs of the huge MuseScore community. Albums allow users to create large works that consist of smaller ones. Things like songbooks/symphonies/studies can be represented as an Album. By using an Album for such a collection of pieces the user can

Hello! We've reached the end (almost). The twelve weeks of coding are complete. Later this week I'll make a big post with a video summarizing the entire summer. For now, here's one last weekly recap.

Update from last week

I spent this week working on tests. The idea is to automatically warn future developers if they make a change that introduces a bug in something that was previously working. MuseScore has lots of tests in place for existing features, and

Last weekly blog

Welcome to the last weekly GSoC Albums blog post. All good things come to an end, this summer included. But, I'll leave the real conclusion and roundup of this year's Google Summer of Code for the summary blog post. In this one, as always, I will update you with the latest improvements in the Albums feature.

Last week

Last week I continued my work on refining the UX and codebase. I rewrote a bunch of stuff, deleted

Greetings

Hello, MuseScore blog readers and dear followers of the Albums project. We are 2 weeks before the end of this year's Google Summer of Code. For that reason I've been working on improving the reliability and polishing the Albums for MuseScore. I am happy to report that things have been going well, there are significantly fewer bugs/crashes and a lot of small changes have been made to finalize the project.

Tomorrow I will livestream at around 16:00 BST. This

Just a short video for you today:

See you next week. ;-)

Hello all! This is probably my second last blog post for my GSoC project.

Progress

This week I managed to change the ScoreView to a QAbstractItemView. First I went through the chart example project for the View in the Qt documentation, and then I tried to implement it in the mscore code. I made class ScoreView inherit from QAbstractItemView, and I had to implement some virtual functions to make it work properly.

I started by implementing indexAt which tells Qt

Last week's update:

I added Tuplets and Spanners (ties, slurs, etc.) to the treeWrite() function and tried to reduce the diff with the previous code as much as I can, and here's what I ended up with.

So most of the file is matching now (about 80% of the lines are matching now), but still there are a lot of differences in the format.

To get it to this state I have only implemented the treeWrite() function in 7 functions

What a week.

What a week.

Update from last week

One sweltering day in August, a well-loved MacBook went to sleep and never woke up. During the very week when I was over 300 miles away from my (non-Mac) secondary machine.

I am amazed at how much I was able to accomplish under the circumstances. I commandeered someone else's gaming laptop, set up a guest account, and immediately began downloading at least a dozen gigabytes of stuff (Visual Studio, Qt,

Feature-set 99% complete

Let's get right to business. This week I completed my work on the Parts functionality for Albums. There are still some things to be done, but most of that has to do with refactoring. Feature-wise the project is pretty much complete.

Progress

I spent most of my time working on Parts and trying to fix a couple of linker errors that were introduced (I haven't managed to fix them yet). Other than that, I added a couple

It's the (almost) final countdown.

Another week, another blog. This week begins the final part of our Google Summer of Code adventure. Both I and my mentors agree that this is a good time to start focusing on improving the existing functionality of Albums (even though there are still a bunch of things that could be added). So, as you might expect most of this month won't be too exciting for yall (you have seen most of the functionality that