MuseScore 3.6 on Windows - a possible bug when switching UI languages
Hello,
I wanted to test the brand-new MuseScore 3.6 on my Windows computer.
I went to the General tab in the Preferences dialog, I chose a different UI language and clicked OK. Every time I did this, the MuseScore crash reporter popped up at me.
Unfortunately, unlike other parts of the MuseScore UI, the crash reporter dialog seemed to contain a lot of text that was generally inaccessible to screen-reader users; so the only thing I was able to read was "Detailed crash info" but I didn't know how to actually submit the report after entering some text into the field.
When I wanted to have a rough idea about the rest of the crash reporter dialog, the only thing I could possibly do is try to do an OCR on the actual contents of the screen, but this makes an awful lot of misspelled and uninteligible words, so I was even unable to figure out what the crash reporter dialog said.
Also, I'm unable to verify whether the crash occurs without the screen-reader running or not.
What am I supposed to do then?
Thanks.
Petr
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Try: double-click on a .mscz file. From preferences uncheck Show Start Center. I don't know if it's related but there are many discussions about crashes and a FAQ https://musescore.org/en/faq#faq-312352
Generally switch the UI langiage doesn't crash, not for me at least, on Windows 10.
You are using a screen reader? And do experience a crash with then switching languages?
Hello, sorry to hear this happening! Do you know if there same would have occurred on previous versions? Also, which screen reader? We support both JAWS and NVDA, it’s possible one might work where the other doesn’t.
One idea for a workaround - use the screen reader to get you to the place where you are ready to hit the final button, then disable the screen reader.
That’s assuming the screen reader is relevant at all, but it’s a good theory I will test further.
In reply to Hello, sorry to hear this… by Marc Sabatella
Hello Mark,
1. Thanks for your tip. I've tried the way you suggested and it seems that the crash does not occur when the screen reader isn't running but it always occurs when either NVDA or JAWS is running.
2. I haven't tested this with the MuseScore 3.6 beta release which was uploaded in mid-November but if it helps you, I can temporarily install it, because that's the version of which I still have the setup package on my hard drive. What I can say for certain is that MuseScore 3.5.2 definitely does not have this problem.
Petr
In reply to Hello Mark, 1. Thanks for… by sweetji
Thanks for the info! Glad you were able to change the language with my suggestion (assuming you actually wanted to!)
I can reproduce the issue on my Windows system as well, but so far I don't yet know what is causing it. I will continue to investigate though.