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Guitar plugin for left hand fingering colours

• Jul 7, 2020 - 16:47

I am writing a plugin as per subject and am wondering whether there is a way to use a configuration file with a plugin. I would use this to define the colours to be used for each finger so that they are not hard-coded. I have looked at the ColorNotes plugin that comes with MS3 but this has its colour values hard-coded so I can't use it as a model for plugin configuration.

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Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 7, 2020 - 17:29

Yes, it is. Check e.g. Batch-convert

yonah_ag

• Jul 7, 2020 - 17:57

I've been through the source code and tested Batch-Convert and it does save the ticked status between MS sessions - but I can't tell what file they are getting written to. Can you point me to the part of the code which does this?

I found this section:

// remember settings
Settings {
id: settings
category: "BatchConvertPlugin"

but couldn't see how it actually does the save.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jul 7, 2020 - 18:19

It is done automatically. In the MuseScore3.ini file

You need the

import Qt.labs.settings 1.0

and

  Settings {
    id: settings
    category: "yourPlugin"
    property alias yourName:  yourValue
    ...
    }

yonah_ag

• Jul 7, 2020 - 18:43

Neat!