GSoC 2020: Albums, Week 4, Ascending
Hear ye, hear ye!
I welcome you to this week's, delayed, blog post.
Progress
- Double-clicking a score in the Album Manager while in album mode moves the screen to the selected score.
- Added an automatically generated front cover.
- Disabled scores disappear in album-mode.
- Improved dock-widget behaviour for the AlbumManager.
- The inspector now works correctly in album-mode.
- Various bug fixes and small improvements.
The biggest (and not originally planned) improvement this week was the automatically generated front cover. I was trying to solve a layout issue and then I realised that it would be both quicker (and way cooler :^) to automatically generate a front cover for the Album. In the future, I want to also automatically generate a table of contents. I believe that this feature will prove to be very useful, especially for large albums. Naturally, users will be able to disable those auto-generated pages.
Back to the Future
This week I want to finish my work on the table of contents and other layout related issues. After finishing with the layout related code, I will be able to work on improving the responsiveness of album-mode. I also want to work on the one issue that was planned for this week but I did not solve/investigate (see the previous blog for that).
That's pretty much it, tune in next time for a "high-production-value" video ;-)