'Plugins' menu disabled when the last score closed but enabled when starting empty

I guess some plugins should be enabled (ABC import, Create Chord Chart, Create Score), but rest of the built-in plugins probably should be disabled when no score is open.

I recommend disabling plugin menu items by default when no scores are open and only enabling it if the plugin specifically requests it.

Is this fixed? The Plugins menu is disabled when no score is open.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (4338) - Mac 10.4.11.

Could it be that the behavior of that plug-in is unexpected? Maybe if the plug-in is installed, ABC files should be eligible for opening in the normal File Open box. That's where I looked when I wanted to open an ABC file.

In an case, it's definitely a confusing situation. I had closed the previous score and wanted to import an ABC, and there was no way to do so.

as we do not know what a plugin is doing, the Plugins menu is not disabled if there is no current score.
(changed in r4970).

While I appreciate this change, wouldn't that mean that plugins that work on the current score (rather than using "new Score()") should get modified to issue an error message if there is no current score to work on?
This might be worth being mentioned in the plugin development documentation .

First MuseScore should not do something undefined if there is no current score and the plugins expects one. I checked with the test score and got some obscure java script popup error message.

Second a plugin could check for a valid current score and act appropriately.

Third we could introduce a new tag for all plugins to indicate to MuseScore that they want to operate on a current score
(somewhat "overengineered" for my taste).

Since most plugins operate on the current score, I would prefer an opt-in tag for displaying a plugin after all the scores are closed (see #2 above). From a usability perspective I'm not sure it makes sense to require the user to open an unrelated score before they can use a plugin that imports or creates a new score.

That said, I am supportive of disabling plugins by default when no score is open.

Well, there are quite a few plugins actually that open a score themselfs, at least 2 are in the standard MuseScore distribution, "Chord chart" and "Create Scores".
I find it quite annoying to have to open a(n otherwise completly unrelated) score, just to be able to use these plugins.

But if there are means in the plugins to enable the menu, that'd be fine.

There is a remaining issue (tested with r4994): The Script-Debugger option is still disabled if no Score is open.
Not sure whether this should be dealt with in this issue or a new one?

in r4995 the script debugger options is always active

Great, thanks.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.