[Trumpet Fingering plugin] Misspelling in Menu text

• Mar 22, 2012 - 03:17
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
3
Status
closed
Project
Trumpet Fingering and Notes English

1. Install the Trumpet Fingering plugin:
http://musescore.org/en/project/trumpetbb
2. Start MuseScore
3. Click to open the Plugins menu.

Expected behavior: The plug should appear with a sensible menu name, such as "Trumpet Fingering"

Actual behavior: The menu item appears as, "trumpetfingueringGAPBELOW5". The word "finguering" is misspelled, the phrase "GAPBELOW5" is extraneous, and the wording isn't title cased and spaced to match the menu items around it.

Discussion: In the plugin code the line:
menu: 'Plugins.trumpetfingueringGAPBELOW5',
should be replaced with:
menu: 'Plugins.Trumpet\ Fingering',

Comments

• Jun 4, 2012 - 12:52

Making this plugin available was the authors only activity. No reply to my attmpts to contact.
Being granted co-maintainership would enable me to fix this issue.

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• Jun 4, 2012 - 17:17

Would this help? I have modified my recorder fingering plugin to make one suitable for most "normal" 3-valve brass instruments. I figure that players with 4 or more valves or who play outwith the covered range probably know the fingerings by now.

Attachment Size
Fingering_Brass.zip 982 bytes

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• Jun 4, 2012 - 22:19

With respect to the author "trumpetfingueringGAPBELOW5" is a bit of a mouthful for a Plugin name, the text font is too large and results in crowding when there are quavers (eighth notes) and you don't really need the names of notes which cause further clutter. Since a fingering Plugin is aimed at beginners it is important to know what is usually done with a beginner's piece of sheet music and that is to pencil in the fingering only as much as is required and avoid intruding upon the music.

Since it appears that you can't or shouldn't interfere with his plugin then I present an alternative, which I permit and encourage others to improve upon.

Do you think that, maybe, "GAPBELOW5" referred to an earlier version of the Plugin with the yOffset (distance below the stave) set at 5 before settling on its final value of 7 and that he just forgot to change the name?

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