plugin dialogs are empty on Windows XP SP3

• Aug 6, 2017 - 04:38
Reported version
2.1
Type
Plugins
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
won't fix
Project
MuseScore

See screenshot example for abc_import. It's sensitive in the sense that the buttons work if you're lucky enough to find them; it's just not rendered.

helloQml, scorelist and ScoreView are the same.

In contrast, built-in dialogs like e.g. File -> Open are fine.

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musescore_abc_import_blank_dialog.JPG 28.94 KB

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• Aug 6, 2017 - 08:20

Quite possible that this is a compatibility issue, Windows XP is out of support (by Microsoft, and as such also by MuseScore and by Qt) since quite a while (April 8th, 2014, more than 3 years ago now, MuseScoere 2.0 got released almost a year later).

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• Aug 6, 2017 - 11:58
Status (old) active ⇒ won't fix

Our plugin system is built on top of Qt's QML language. For windows XP this means your graphics card needs to have its own OpenGL compliant driver and/or high enough DirectX support through ANGLE.
Many XP systems indeed do not handle this well, leading to non-visual contents of the windows. In my personal view, if you don't have a very good reason for staying with XP and that machine is the only one available, have a look at some of the lighter and still relative dummyproof linuxes such as Lubuntu. They do come with a software OpenGL renderer and chances are higher that MuseScore can run on those using the AppImage format.

Note that you are nearly guaranteed that MuseScore 3 won't work on Windows XP as a program as well, as we've moved on to a newer version of Qt, which has stripped a bunch of its old XP-supporting code away.

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