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Your question lacks some important details, but I assume you are asking if there are known problems in NoteWorthy Composer to trigger an erratic mouse response. We do not have any known issues that would cause something like this.

This object allows a list of accidental strings to be defined such that they form a custom key signature. The following sample will get you started:

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.749727,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|User|CustomKey.nw|Pos:0|Class:StaffSig|AccList:1,7,,,2
|TimeSig|Signature:28/4
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

A list of accidentals are defined by a series of comma separated strings. Each string in the sequence gets displayed at the next position in the circle of fifths. An empty string can be used to skip a position in the circle of fifths. By default, the circle of fifths position starts at position 0, and cycles through the standard flat circle of fifth positions. If the list continues, the traditional sharp circle of fifth positions are used. If the list continues, then the process wraps and starts over again with position 0.

The starting position in the flat to sharp circle of fifths can be defined. This can be used to start with the first sharp position. The exact location for each position is relative to the user object's position, which allows additional flexibility.

This object is best used with the Accidentals font, by Ertuğrul İnanç. It can be found at:

http://nwc-scriptorium.org/sfontr.html


See also:

• An ancient feature request revisited: Custom staff signatures
  (Back Stage Pass required)

Object plugins allow a variety of custom functionality to be added to your NoteWorthy Composer file. Each Object can be subclassed using specially crafted scripts that can establish new behavior for each object type. An introductory video is available on our YouTube channel:

Introduction to Manage Objects Video

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Prerequisite

Objects are a new feature in NoteWorthy Composer 2.75.

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Installing a New Object Plugin

Objects are automatically loaded by NoteWorthy Composer when they are placed into the Object Plugins folder. This folder is set from Tools, Options, Folders, and by default uses a standard Windows location.

You can automatically download and install new object plugins published here by using the Tools, Manage Objects command, which opens with Ctrl+J. For new objects, you should generally open the sample's object clip first. Click the Options button, then Check online sources. This will identify any plugin source code that can be downloaded or upgraded from the forum. You can right click, or double click, any object types that you would like to install.

If you are using Windows Vista or later, you can also copy and paste the following URL into an Explorer or Open/Save window to go straight into the default location for these plugins:

%ProgramData%\Noteworthy Software\nwc2\UserPlugins

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Contributing

If you want to share an object plugin that you have created, then you can request post access to this area. Each object plugin must include a unique author designation, which is called its NWC Plugin-ID. Please indicate your preferred Plugin-ID with any request for posting access to this forum.

This forum board is intended to be used exclusively for posting new object plugins. The following rules apply:

• All topics must publish at least one object plugin
• Object plugins may only be attached in the primary/top message of each topic
• All object types must be named with an official Plugin-ID, or .test if you are still in the development phase
• The object's Plugin-ID must match your profile's Plugin-ID or .test
• The title of a topic should indicate the object name
• You should provide a sample nwctxt clip or file that includes your object

Any topic that is found to not follow these rules will be moved or deleted.

I discovered an error in the lua documentation for nwwcut.askbox:

http://lua.noteworthycomposer.com/nwcut.html##(nwcut).askbox

Thanks for the report. This has been updated with correct info.

We are in the process of migrating our online systems over to a new system. As a part of this process, we are moving NWC specific web resources over to the noteworthycomposer.com domain. During this process, you may experience occasional failures, unusual navigation results, and changes to the look and feel of some pages/areas.

Our metrics, and general industry trends, indicate that many people have moved to cloud based e-mail. Although this sacrifices privacy, it does tend to protect against catastrophic hacks. In this scenario, your provider wants to be the sole source of data tracking, so they tend to protect you from external attacks. Good news, bad news...

Sometimes, resolution by committee can lead to even more trouble.

I would recommend starting with the actual crash message, as well as what you are doing when the crash occurs. If these crashes are not consistent in message or trigger, then and only then would I recommend taking other steps (perhaps a memory/cpu stress test).

Also, as mentioned, the latest NWC version is 2.51a. If your version really says 2.55, then this is an obvious cause for concern.

Update: If you are using version 2.5.5, then you should definitely upgrade to version 2.51a. There were some stability problems in version 2.5.5 (in particular, File->New was prone to crash).

FWIW I spend time on another SMF 1.1 (1.1 RC2) forum and don't have this problem...

Well, this turned out to be the key. One of the SMF 1.1.* security patches actually broke the Preview mechanism.

I went ahead and fixed it.

As a temporary work around, you should be able to hold the Ctrl key down while pressing the Preview button. This disables the sendXMLDocument Javascript behavior, and forces a normal posted preview. Don't do this after adding attachments, though.

This reply posted using Firefox 34.0.5. It previews for me with no problems.

FWIW I spend time on another SMF 1.1 (1.1 RC2) forum and don't have this problem...

1.1 RC2?

Is the other forum served via https? I am guessing not, since it is not being kept up to date.

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 27 :

• fixes the text size display from Text Expression Display Font
• lots of changes to the plugin API

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 25 includes a new scaling feature for text expressions. This allows each text expression to be individually sized, without using additional user font definitions. The editor allows direct adjustment of a single, selected text expression using the +/- keys.

This release also hardens the plugin mechanism against various mathematical overflow/range errors.

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 23 included:

• New alert notifications provided by the status bar
• Upgrades to the plugin mechanism

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 20 makes the following changes to the experimental Lua based userdraw mechanism (further details can be found in the Back Stage area):

• fix for program instability/crash when running userdraw plugin methods
• the +/- keys now support a single, selected User item's Span property, if it contains one

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 17 fixes a serious problem with Multi-point Controller items from existing *.nwc files.

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 15 includes:

• MPC empty time offsets
• Visible (experimental) Marker object in Selectors
• View and Play Span now show as real numbers in Score Review
• Pitch Bend control is now centered when play is started for any channel that sends Patch or Bend Range instructions
• F6 MIDI Stop/Reset use of the standard Channel Mode Messages (these were abandoned back in the day due to issues with some devices)

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 13 includes numerous changes/additions (use with caution):

• Pitch Bend Range can now be defined from the Instrument specification
• Staff level Pitch Bend Range is shown in Score Review
• Play back pause and resume should now properly track RPN (Registered Parameter Number) controller data
• Score Review now shows full MIDI duration values in Play and View Span statistics
• Many low level changes to the *.nwc file format (all notation data is now stored as nwctxt, with a standard *.nwc header)

Thanks for the report.

I updated the code highlighting mechanisms to properly parse ' entities. Since my fix was very narrow, there might be other issues. If you notice other issues like this, please post here.

NWC 2.75 Beta Preview 10 enhances the Edit, Find match count reporting and Print Preview Zoom mechanisms.

Preview 6 adds support for searching through the current staff or all editor staffs in Edit, Find.

Preview 4 changes included:

• Expressions are moved by half of a staff position when using Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down arrows
• Margin values should now support 2 decimals of precision without drifting into unusual higher precision values
• The editor now exclusively uses nwctxt to exchange notation items via the clipboard
• Edit, Copy of single editor items now uses the standard nwctxt representation, complete with the standard !NoteWorthyComposerClip header
• Edit, Find (Ctrl+F) can now be used to show the full nwctxt of a single selected item in the editor

During this process, we had a little double encoding accident, which required restoring the forum from backup. I had to manually restore the last few posts, so there might be a little quirkiness with these few posts.

Everything should be good now.

A Preview 2 set is now available. Changes include better support for Expression Placement micro-positioning, Lua scripts now fully support utf-8 encoding in prompts and msgbox functions, and User Tool results are now rendered as utf-8 encoded text.

NoteWorthy Composer Version 2.75 has been released. You can upgrade your version 2.51a install to version 2.75 by going to:

Help->Access Noteworthy Software.com

from within the program.

You can get the latest NWC Viewer from here:

• NoteWorthy Composer Viewer

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The beta preview series included the following description:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Major changes include:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The AU Lab configuration that I used to enable Apple's DLS Synth for use in Chrome Web Apps is attached.