Re: [Mscore-developer] Replacing Qt XML validator by custom validator

2016-01-10 Thread Leon Vinken
A valid question. When I started I had no intention to re-invent the wheel, but first spent considerable time investigating the existing solutions. I could not find one that met my criteria: easy to understand and use, fast and easily able to provide feedback while validating. While building a pro

[Mscore-developer] mscVersion management

2016-01-10 Thread Marc Sabatella
We use mscVerssion in a score file to track the version it was saved with. Prior to the release of 2.0, we added code to the end of doLayout() to set this to the current version, so that the saved version info is used only during the initial score read & first layout, and then the score is treated

Re: [Mscore-developer] Noteworthy Composer files support

2016-01-10 Thread Lasconic
Hi, I'm the author of http://nwc2musicxml.appspot.com an open source nwctxt to MusicXML converter and one of the core committer of MuseScore. I also manage http://abc2xml.appspot.com/ and the abc import plugin of MuseScore. To me, it always make more sense to create convertors to MusicXML and imp

[Mscore-developer] Noteworthy Composer files support

2016-01-10 Thread Éloi Rivard
Hi, I (maybe) would like to work on the nwc files support. I just want to check with the upstream if it is OK, and if anyone is already working on it. I just found an old post about nwc2xml. Actually I think it would be a good idea

Re: [Mscore-developer] Replacing Qt XML validator by custom validator

2016-01-10 Thread Lasconic
Hi, Honestly, I didn't expect this answer. Writing an XML validator from scratch sounds like a bad idea when there are several already existing (Qt, Xerces c++, libxml2 etc...) with already many man-days invested, hundreds of projects using them and years of bug fixes. May I ask why you chose to r

Re: [Mscore-developer] Replacing Qt XML validator by custom validator

2016-01-10 Thread Mark Stanton
On Saturday 09 January 2016 14:05:41 Leon Vinken wrote: > In the past we have had several complaints about loading large MusicXML > files taking too long and not providing any any feedback. I'd vote for it. And, to avoid the problems associated with having custom built stuff of our own, how abo