Ability to change assigned colours?

• Jun 2, 2015 - 09:17
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project
Color/Uncolor Notes v2 & v1.2

Is it possible to write an easily edited (without needing to be able to write code) version of this plugin where the user can select the colours? I work with Figurenotes and need to be able to colour notes quickly according to that convention. If it's easier to just write a new plugin based on the Figurenotes convention, the colours are:

C=Red
D=Brown
E=Grey
F=poster blue
G=black
A=poster yellow
B=poster green

Sharps and flats are coloured the same, i.e. G# is black, Ab is Yellow

Would make a big difference to a group of musicians with learning disabilities.

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• Jul 29, 2015 - 12:46

Does anyone know the best way to contact the developer of this plugin? We have a plugin that works for Figurenotes colours in earlier versions of MuseScore, but not v2.

Having a default colours plugin for Figurenotes would enable so many people to have access to music and progress towards reading conventional notation. RoseRodent is right - our groups of disabled musicians would benefit so much from this!

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• Jul 29, 2015 - 12:22

So you are planning to fix this? If not better unassign it...
You can try to send a message to Djamana

But actually this plugin is derived from the color notes plugin, that in turn has been ported to 2.0, so it should be a pretty easy matter to just take that and modify the colors to match your needs

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• Jul 29, 2015 - 12:50

Apologies. I'm new to this. I can't seem to go back to unassign it, so I have done in this post.
I'll try sending a message. In the meantime, if anyone could help us that would be great!

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• Jul 29, 2015 - 12:53

It won't unassign. Sorry. Just to be clear. I won't be able to fix this Figurenotes colours problem myself. I have all the RGB numbers for anyone that would like to. Thank you.

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• Jul 29, 2015 - 14:02

That's a great start! Thank you. You're a star. The enharmonics have always been a bit of an issue, I think. Am I ok to share this with our Figurenoters for now?

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• Jul 29, 2015 - 14:36

I think it will work if you use note.tpc2 (note.tpc1 ?) instead of note.pitch, changing the division operation and the color list accordingly.

EDIT: I couldn't resist and modified the script. Attached the modified version.

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colornotes2.qml 4.84 KB

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• Jul 30, 2015 - 11:24

Here is a modified version using Figurenotes colours (the grey and yellow have been made slightly darker than usual to help them show up better within the stave. The accidentals now also stay black. I had outside help doing this, as well as a message from djamana (thank you!)

Thanks for everyone's help and advice :)

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FNcolournotes.qml 5.65 KB

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• Jul 30, 2015 - 11:48

As far as I can see this last version only adds complexity without changing the results, by having 35 rather than 7 colors, and lots of duplicates too, I think the previous version should handle flats, sharps, double-flats and double-sharps the same way?
I've not checked whether the colors are the same, the previous version uses color names rather than RGB values, much easier to read, but less exact, and maybe even entirely different
Opps, sees you edit and my reply crossed and the colors are what you want.
My Point reg. unneccessary added complexity still stands though, I think

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