GSoC 2020 Work Product: New and Improved Multimeasure Rests and Measure Repeats
4 months ago • 4 comments
Hello, all! This is the conclusion to my GSoC 2020 blog, summarizing and linking to my work for MuseScore over the past twelve weeks.
In brief, I added support for adjusting the style of multimeasure rests, switching to old-style multimeasure rests, preventing line breaks between selected measures, automatically numbering one-measure repeats, and creating two- and four-measure repeats with MIDI playback support and the ability to import from and export to MusicXML format.
The multimeasure rest code, which can be found
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Hello! We've reached the end (almost). The twelve weeks of coding are complete. Later this week I'll make a big post with a video summarizing the entire summer. For now, here's one last weekly recap.
Update from last week
I spent this week working on tests. The idea is to automatically warn future developers if they make a change that introduces a bug in something that was previously working. MuseScore has lots of tests in place for existing features, and
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Just a short video for you today:
See you next week. ;-)
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What a week.
What a week.
Update from last week
One sweltering day in August, a well-loved MacBook went to sleep and never woke up. During the very week when I was over 300 miles away from my (non-Mac) secondary machine.
I am amazed at how much I was able to accomplish under the circumstances. I commandeered someone else's gaming laptop, set up a guest account, and immediately began downloading at least a dozen gigabytes of stuff (Visual Studio, Qt,
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5 months ago • 0 comments
Update from last week
Since the playback algorithms already had handling for one-measure repeats, it turned out to require only small changes to get the two-measure and four-measure repeats to play correctly. (However, in some circumstances it is questionable what it is to "play correctly"—see https://t.me/musescoreeditorchat/82334. Please don't put your musician in a circumstance where it is questionable what it is to "play correctly.") And I was pleased to find that, by investing in playback, I got MIDI export
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5 months ago • 0 comments
Hello! The last week ended up being quite different than what I had planned, but some solid improvements were made nonetheless.
Update from last week
PR #6211, my multimeasure rest work, was merged! I have now opened PR #6365 for my measure repeat work.
Inspector
According to plan, I added an Inspector for MeasureRepeats. Not according to plan, the ground shifted under my feet and suddenly all my files were in the wrong place. I should have had PR
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6 months ago • 1 comment
Hello! For this week, I made a longer video:
Update from last week
I made the bond between the measures of a MeasureRepeat group much stronger, disallowing or adding special handling for as many scenarios as I could think of that would interfere with them. Among those scenarios:
- Copying and pasting measures within a group (disallowed, unless the whole group is selected)
- Pasting anything into a group (allowed, removes the MeasureRepeat and resets associated measures)
- Note input within a group
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6 months ago • 0 comments
Hello again! Last week was a bit of a mixed bag. I didn't accomplish everything I hoped to, but still, progress was made. Let's get into it.
Update from last week
Bugs
My "Priority 1" issue, having to do with undo/redo, was unexpectedly fixed for me by (once again) @mattmcclinch. The "Priority 2" issue, though... I banged my head against the wall all week, and went deep, deep into the weeds with my mentor to figure
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6 months ago • 9 comments
Update from last week
My goals for last week were as follows:
- Expand MeasureRepeat class to support varying numbers under the hood
- Draw the MeasureRepeat from the font instead of with a hard-coded path
- Make all current uses of MeasureRepeat specify that it is the one-measure version being called (i.e., keeping same functionality, but changing implementation)
I did all of that in the first couple of days, and went on to, well, take those under-the-hood changes
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6 months ago • 0 comments
Hello, all! In the last week, I did some work a few weeks ago. Let me explain.
Update from last week
Group measures
On Wednesday I joined Marc Sabatella's weekly MuseScore livestream to demonstrate the current state of my project, and discovered a bug in my code live on the air—measure numbers were incorrect starting after a measure group.
This was a mystery to figure out because there didn't seem to be any models to follow
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