All notes in Note Names

Hello all :)

I needed the Note Names plugin to display all note names (yes, I am too lazy to learn how to read music notation fluently), and could not find any way to do this in the standard plugin, or here on the forum. So I just made a quick customization of the existing plugin. The plugin iterates (should do, at least) through all staffs, and each note in each chord at any given position in that staff.

I am new to both JavaScript and MuseScore, so this is probably not bug-free, and I have not implemented any specific functionality for voices, as I don't know what that is, but this customized version of Note Names could perhaps help other people in my situation, and I have not found bugs in any of the tests I have done. So I'll post the script here for you, to use if you need it :)

Copy/paste into notenames.js to use (perhaps backup old version in case you want to revert)


//=============================================================================
// MuseScore
// Linux Music Score Editor
// $Id:$
//
// Test plugin
//
// Copyright (C)2008 Werner Schweer and others
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
// along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
// Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
//=============================================================================

//
// This is ECMAScript code (ECMA-262 aka "Java Script")
//

//---------------------------------------------------------
// init
// this function will be called on startup of mscore
//---------------------------------------------------------

function init()
{
// print("test script init");
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------
// run
// this function will be called when activating the
// plugin menu entry
//
// global Variables:
// pluginPath - contains the plugin path; file separator is "/"
//-------------------------------------------------------------------

function run(){
var cursor = new Cursor(curScore);
var i = 0;
for (i = curScore.staves; i > 0; i--){
cursor.staff = i-1;
cursor.voice = 0;
cursor.rewind(); // set cursor to first chord/rest
var shiftDown = 0;

while (!cursor.eos()) {
if (cursor.isChord()) {

var text = new Text(curScore);
text.text = cursor.chord().topNote().name;

//-1 for index, -1 for topNote(), ie -2:
var chordlength = cursor.chord().notes-2;

while (chordlength >= 0){
print(chordlength + text.text);
text.text += "-" + cursor.chord().note(chordlength).name;
chordlength = chordlength - 1;
}
if(text.text.length >4 && shiftDown == 1){
text.yOffset = 6;
shiftDown = 0;
}else{
text.yOffset = 5;
shiftDown = 1;
}

cursor.putStaffText(text);
}
cursor.next();
}
}
}

//---------------------------------------------------------
// menu: defines were the function will be placed
// in the MuseScore menu structure
//---------------------------------------------------------

var mscorePlugin = {
menu: 'Plugins.Note Names',
init: init,
run: run
};

mscorePlugin;