I tried to join the Manuscript developers' forum using the mailto link on the Plug-ins page, but the email came back 'majordodo@sibelius.com' not found. Am I doing something wrong or is the mailto incorrect? I've been trying to sort out a problem with a plug-in I've been editing in Notepad2 and although everything looks fine Sibelius won't even acknowledge it's existence, so I can't do any editing within Sibelius. (other ones in the same folder are picked up fine.) However I'm wondering if there is a problem with the way I have Notepad2 working: every line has CRLF as it's terminator whereas the other files in the same folder have a mixture of that and just LF. Is this significant? Posted by - 18 Aug 03:40PM. Plugins need to be in Unicode, so be sure that the editor you use is Unicode enabled.

FWIW, I use UltraEdit as my external editor, though I tend to do a lot of work in the internal Sibelius editor, at least at the debugging stages. Also be aware that it is.very. easy to create an unreadable plugin in an external editor because of the weird way double quotes are used in ManuScript. Double quotes must be paired around every method, and internal to a method you need to use single quotes where the are really double quotes if you looked in the ManuScript editor. I mostly tend to take a working plugin and modify it. I also always add new methods in the ManuScript editor (so the structure is set up) and.always. edit dialogs in the Sib editor.

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What I also tend to do is edit one plugin method at a time in an external editor, rather than editing the entire file. I just copy a method into UltraEdit, and work on it there, then paste it back into the Sib editor. That way I can still use double quotes in the method without messing up the structure. Broadcom ush e6500 drivers for mac.

When I edit an entire file it is usually so I can do global replacements. But I can't tell you how many hours I have wasted trying to get double quotes working correctly so that Sib will recognize the plugin.

A lot of them! And I find that using the internal editor saves a lot of time closing and reopening Sibelius, especially when debugging, so despite its lack of features, I actually save a lot of time by using it. Bob Sib 1.4 - 6.2, Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo; Audiophile 2496; 4 G RAM. I am an experienced Sibelius user, but am not affiliated with Sibelius Software. Sib Plugin downloads: (see How to Install Plugins) Alphabetical plugin list: Posted by - 18 Aug 05:05PM. Sorry majordomo is what is failing - just my typo in the thread! Yes I started with an existing plug-in, but I suspect your comment about unicode is the clue, thanks.

All your other comments are interesting and useful, thank you, and I would (roughly speaking) have followed the ways of working you outline, although I had edited the dialogs myself. What is most annoying is that the initial draft I tried in Sibleius and it was recognised and sort of went ok. So I took the plunge and went off and did a fairly big chunk of editing to tart it up and add comments and so (I've done stacks of computer programming in my working life, but this was my first venture into Manuscript!).

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Now I've lost the one that was ok before the edits - computer programmers are always the worst at backup! Anyway, I'll try the unicode thing and then if not, maybe start again but paste chunks into the Sibelius editor be safer. Thanks again, Roger H Posted by - 18 Aug 05:50PM. There are plug-ins that can assist you on a go-forward basis with backing up. This plug-in allows plug-in authors to create multiple backup snapshots throughout the plug-in development process. Snapshots are useful to have when recent code changes impair/break your plug-in, and you can't or don't wish to spend time fixing the newly introduced errors.

The backup and the included restore plug-in work nicely together like hand and glove. Ed Hirschman Sib 6, Dell Dimension XPS, 3G RAM, XPSP3 Posted by - 18 Aug 06:47PM.