Re: ANN: LilyPondTool 2.12.848 BETA

[Mark Polesky]

Bertalan Fodor wrote:

> If you find problems or places of enhancement, please let me
> know. I'm planning to release to the plugin central in 2 weeks.

Virtual Piano

1) Awesome.
2) When I dock it at top or bottom, the "Piano tool panel" is too
   wide and the piano keyboard gets a scroll bar. It's as if the
   tool panel has a minimum width value that's too high. My screen
   resolution is 1280x1024. Maybe a user-accessible minimum-width
   setting could be added to the Plugin Options?
3) If the PDF viewer is docked at left or right, and the virtual
   piano is docked at top or bottom, the default settings (I think)
   cut off the virtual piano so the PDF preview extends from top to
   bottom. Somewhere you should mention Utilities > Global Options
   > jEdit > View > Alternate docked window placement -- to switch
   from this:


      | |___| |
      | |   | |
      | |___| |
      | |   | |

   to this:

      |_______|
      | |   | |
      |_|___|_|
      |       |



Dockable PDF viewer

1) Nice.
2) Though I miss being able to set the exact zoom value manually,
   and I miss the current zoom value being displayed. Maybe another
   Plugin Option to toggle this?
3) This is weird: If the PDF viewer is set to "Float", and I close
   it, then click Preview output again, I get:

     A Bean Shell error occurred.
       java.lang.NullPointerException
           at lilytool.LilyToolPlugin.viewPDF(Unknown Source)
           at ... <many more lines>

   What's weird is that I can close the error message window, click
   on Preview output *again*, and it shows fine. If I close this
   instance of the viewer and click on Preview output once more, I
   get the error message again! This behavior repeats cyclically -
   subsequent calls to Preview output alternatively succeed and
   fail. This doesn't seem to happen when the viewer is "docked".


Bugs?
1) floating PDF viewer bug mentioned above.
2) clicking on "Restart LilyPondTool" causes the LPT toolbar to
   disappear. This is recoverable with Plugin Options >
   LilyPondTool > General > Enable LilyPondTool toolbar (which is
   already checked!) > Apply/OK -- but I still think it's a bug.
3) I've gotten the following error in previous versions. It always
   happened when I tried to recompile a file from within LPT while
   that file was open in an external PDF viewer. When I got this
   error, usually I could just close the file in the external PDF
   viewer and then compiling would generally be successful.

   However, sometimes the error would happen when there was no
   external PDF viewer involved. In those cases (IIRC), clicking on
   "Restart LilyPondTool" would sometimes allow successful
   recompiling, and (IIRC) some other times the only workaround was
   to restart jEdit. No work was ever lost in this process, because
   LPT always saves the file before attempting to compile it.

   I was never able to consistently replicate the error conditions,
   and I never reported it. Are you familiar with this? Here it is:

Processing `C:/Documents and Settings/.../myfile.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Interpreting music...
MIDI output to `myfile.mid'...
Solving 1 page-breaking chunks...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `myfile.ps'...C:/Program 
Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend-library.scm:115:15: In 
procedure delete-file in expression (delete-file pdf-name):
C:/Program 
Files/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/backend-library.scm:115:15: 
Permission denied

Hope this helps.
Thanks for an awesome product!
- Mark