Plugins with dialogs open their dialog in the background (behind the main MuseScore window)

• Jun 17, 2020 - 14:26
Reported version
3.x-dev
Type
Plugins
Frequency
Few
Severity
S2 - Critical
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
Yes
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

Plugins with dialogs open their dialog in the background (behind the main MuseScore window)

Seen in Windows 10 and 7, with e.g. the Batch Convert plugin as well as https://musescore.org/en/project/chord-identifier-special-v3 and https://musescore.org/en/project/expand-chord-symbols-notes

Workaround is of course to dig that dialog up into the forground

Regression vs. 3.4.2

Comments

• Jun 17, 2020 - 23:04

For me all is well on Linux, on Windows 10 some plugin dialogs open normally (including Batch Export); but others show on top then hide themselves.

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• Jun 22, 2020 - 09:24

Forwarding what I have mentioned in the Telegram chat, this issue is not related to plugins framework. Similar issues happen to some other non-modal dialogs (but not all of them): Master palette and "Edit Toolbar" lose focus just after opening, Plugin Creator window (being not a plugin itself) hides in the same manner as plugin-created dialogs. Therefore this is a more general issue.

Also this issue has probably been introduced somewhere between 3.5 Alpha and 3.5 Beta: I wasn't able to reproduce the issue in Alpha version but in Beta it was perfectly reproducible for me.

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Fix version
3.5.0