Re: Dolet 6 Plugin for Sibelius

Could you remove the custom "alterations to it by an outside party for the
plugin to work faster"? It's more likely that the issue is in this
additional code rather than in the code released by MakeMusic. After
examining the corrupted MusicXML file that you sent, I noticed there was an
issue encountered while writing a <pitch> element. The output of this
section is a stream of null bytes (0x00). I don't know what could have
caused this, but looking at the WriteXML function, I noticed there was the
following code block:

// ==========================================
// The following two lines of code added by Notecraft Services LLC in
November 2012
// They load the lines of XML code into a global array
// Note that this only works in Sibelius 6 and later
// ==========================================

counter = gsa_XMLMyWriteLine.Length;

gsa_XMLMyWriteLine[counter] = sData;

While I cannot say this is where the error is occurring, it would be the
first place I would investigate. I would like to echo Daniel's previous
sentiment that there probably isn't much the group can do to help in this
case. I would recommend either reaching out to the original developer or
reverting to the original code that MakeMusic provided.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 3:54 AM Daniel Spreadbury <D.Spreadbury@steinberg.de>
wrote:

> Hi Austin,
>
>
>
> Unfortunately I doubt there’s much that we can do to help here – Michael
> Good was the original author of the Dolet plug-in for Sibelius, and the
> latest version was released under an open source license when he retired at
> the beginning of 2023, but I don’t believe older versions of the plug-in
> are included in that release, and in any case, debugging and fixing a
> plug-in in a nearly-15-year-old version of Sibelius might be a tall order.
>
>
>
> Do you know what the nature of the brokenness is, when it occurs? What
> specifically goes wrong with the problematic MusicXML files? Does the same
> Sibelius score produce a different result when using the same plug-in on a
> different system?
>
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> *From: *Austin Melcher <amelcher@halleonard.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 12 September 2023 at 07:34
> *To: *public-music-notation@w3.org <public-music-notation@w3.org>
> *Cc: *Kimberly Brand <kbrand@halleonard.com>
> *Subject: *Dolet 6 Plugin for Sibelius
>
> Hello there,
>
> I am a music engraver and have been using the plugin in Sib 6.2 for a few
> years, with some alterations to it by an outside party for the plugin to
> work faster for our application needs. Our department has been using the
> same plugin for about 10 years now and there haven’t been any issues until
> just this calendar year.
>
> But so far this year, the plugin has been creating files (more often than
> not) that are incomplete and broken when uploaded to Noteflight, as well as
> not being processed properly in our archiving system. I am wondering if
> there is anyone that might know something about the plugin not being
> compatible with newer computers/operating systems? (I am running updated
> Windows 10 with an 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz   1.38
> GHz on a less than 3 year old Dell Latitude 5520.) My co-workers and
> manager haven’t been having anywhere near this same level of issue. I’m
> including a pair of .xml files for your consideration, one broken and the
> other was uploaded/archived with no issues, as well as our copy of the
> plugin that had been altered to work faster for us.
>
> And to address one of the most obvious solutions…at this time, upgrading
> and using newer versions of Sibelius isn’t an option due to other issues
> with scorch compatibility.
>
> Please feel free to ask any other specific questions that I might not have
> answered already to, hopefully, find some kind of solution to this odd
> issue.
>
> *Austin Melcher*
>
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