Re: Denemo Print View only displays Errors.

[Joe Wilkinson]

    Hi Stephen,
    My denemo isn't installed. Richard will have to reply
    I use the non-installed development version, currently at http://www.denemo.org/~jjbenham/mxe/denemo.zip
    If I install a new version, I always get a prompt about keeping
    previous Commands etc I almost always keep them.
    Sorry, I don't know what extra ramifications there are from
    installing it, other than the ability to double-click the .denemo
    file and running denemo from there.
    
    What I actually do is to rename the download with a date name, e.g.
    Den20Mar, and expand it to the desktop when it appears in a folder
    of that name, including a denemo folder, including the denemo.bat
    file. And I run denemo from there. It allows me to keep as up-to
    date as I need and I always keep one backup - the previous working
    version.
    with best wishes
    Joe

On 11/03/2021 12:41, Stephen Crowley wrote:

Thank you both for your prompt response to my issue. As of this morning whenever I start Denemo it opens the last project along with the Print View window with the error message. I close the print view window. Open a new file. Create a simple scale, invoke Typeset Music from the menu bar, the Print view window opens empty and then populates with the error message.

I can appreciate that poking around the command buttons may have changed a setting that may be causing the problem. I have reinstalled the app on the primary drive of my Windows 10 machine and, as prompted, did not restore previous settings or preferences. I start up the app and it immediately looks for the last file worked on.

I then copied the denemo-2.5.0.zip file to another hard drive on my machine, and to my disappointment when it opened it did not open with a new file and empty Print Window screen, it opened with the last file from the previous install and the same error message. Registry values are persisting. I don't see any uninstall feature, or a restore to default settings feature that might save the day.

I don't have great demands for the app. I want to enter simple vocal staffs to learn to sing some of new hymns from my Christian Prayer book. It has an index of 188 hymns and I have been singing the same 40 or so for the last 20 years and would like to learn some of the unfamiliar ones.

Again any help would be appreciated. See the simple screen captures below.

Stephen

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:35 AM Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 10:49 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> It is often simple things like crescendo ends without starts,

I think Stephen is saying his is an initial test file, just a scale. In
fact the most basic test of your setup is to do
File->New
and then typeset. You should get a single staff with a single bar with
treble clef and common time signature, the bar being empty.
I really think I should put a check on start up that executing LilyPond
will work...

If you are testing real music where you may have inadvertently entered
something crazy then (after Check Score) the best place to look is the
LilyPond window. After a right-click typeset in that window the message
pane at the bottom should give some clue (as well as the highlighting
in red of the offending text).

Richard