How to create a plugin?
In this handbook page: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/plugins, there's a note: (How to create a plugin - to be added).
I think it's the right time to reveal the secret.
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See the equivalent page for MuseScore 3- it's basically the same in MuseScore 4 (except for some minor things, so then see 'Plugins for 4.x')
In reply to See the equivalent page for… by XiaoMigros
What I need is the Plugin Creator. The page https://musescore.org/en/node/334701#Plugin_Creator says: This is expected to be redesigned and reimplemented for a post MuseScore 4.0 release.
I'd like to know how to create plugins until then.
In reply to What I need is the Plugin… by gideonrv
Open existing plugins with an interesting title in a text only editor, e.g. Notepad ++ or Visual Studio Code
https://musescore.org/en/plugins.
Plugins are basically javascript code (similar to c). For the GUI interface you also need to learn/understand Qt+.
Great exercise in learning!
EDIT: The Plugin Creator is no more than a text only editor with a Run button. Don't think you are missing something essential... or use MU3.6... It does have a useful window for debug console.log messages...
In reply to Open existing plugins with… by elsewhere
'basically javascript' is a bit of an overstatement, QML does have some ecmascript elements but it is a language in its own right
In reply to Open existing plugins with… by elsewhere
I know this is old, but I'm curious how you're writing plugins without the debug console? I'm finding it really difficult to debug my code and I don't know what else to do but the old fashioned "console.log"
In reply to I know this is old, but I'm… by brendanjeffrey…
"console.log" is it, as far as I know. Makes it 'frontier' challenging. Marking your console.log statements with the line number of the code can help a bit. In addition the output window only supports 1000 lines. For larger outputs look at: https://musescore.org/en/project/objectexplorer-v20
In reply to What I need is the Plugin… by gideonrv
You can write your own plugins in any text editor, and save them as .qml