Hi!
I'm building my deck and I have a couple of custom plugins in Sibelius that I'd like to assign, but for the life of me, I don't know how. I'm sure it could be done using Java, but I'm not too familiar. I traced the plugin to get its name and tried running it on Java, but it doesn't work.
Here's what I tried:
sf.app.sibelius.invokeCommands({
commandIds: ['RespellFlatsAsSharps'],
});
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-22 17:09:16.856ZHi Juan,
Exciting to see you diving in :)
I believe Sibelius doesn't support using invokeCommands for running plugins. We would instead need to add an action specifically for this - it'll likely be called "invokePlugin".
I'll add an internal issue so we can track getting this added asap.
- JJuan Arboleda @Juan_Arboleda
Hi Christian!
Thank you, so far it's going good and I've been building some Decks. I'm still learning but it's all moving along.
Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-22 19:59:40.721ZNice! If our internal testing goes well, we should get the
invokePluginin SF 5.7.7.- Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-22 20:40:14.424Z
Hm I said this too fast. It appears that Sibelius handles plugins in a quite a bit more restrictive way unfortunately. What's the name of the plugin you want to run and where did you install it from?
- Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-22 20:43:35.992Z
It turns out, Sibelius requires SoundFlow to tell Sibelius "ahead of time" which plugins we may want to use to control Sibelius later on, which makes it a bit tricky.
If you can figure out the name of the ".plg" file in this directory, that would most likely be the first step to testing this:
/Users/[YOURUSERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Avid/Sibelius/Plugins- JJuan Arboleda @Juan_Arboleda
Thats Awesome!
Here's the list of the plugins we use:RespellFlatsAsSharps.plg -- this is the one we've been referring too.
but these we also use all the time:
CautionaryTimeSignatures-1.plg
ChordSymbolFractionsSingleObject.plg
CopyDoubleNoteValues.plg
CopyHalveNoteValues.plg
TimingForSelection.plg
CustomSlurGroups.plg
HSandTitles (FiLMS).plg
ImposeSketchontoTemplate.plg
ExchangeStaffContents.plg
ImposeSketchontoTemplate.plg
PasteRhythmtoPitches.plg
ResetSpacingInScoreAndParts.plg
SplitMultirests.plg
UseMusicFontForDynamics.plg- Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-23 03:19:54.825Z
Thank you, Juan. And these are all in that folder I shared the link to, right?
- In reply toJuan_Arboleda⬆:Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-25 19:19:27.425Z
I have
RespellFlatsAsSharpsworking internally now. I'll send you a preview build to test with asap.- JJuan Arboleda @Juan_Arboleda
Thanks you!!!
- Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-25 19:48:52.314Z
No problem :)
Please use the following link to install the preview 1 build of SF 5.7.7 which includes the new
invokePluginaction:You can then run a plugin like so:
sf.app.sibelius.invokePlugin({ pluginName: 'RespellFlatsAsSharps', });Note that
invokePluginalso takes amethodNameproperty (which defaults to'Run'if nothing is specified), and anargsproperty, which should be supplied as a JSON object in the event you want to pass custom arguments to the plugin function.
- JJuan Arboleda @Juan_Arboleda
Awesome! the first one ran, when i tried using sharps to flats it stopped working, so i guess in need to invoke the args. how do you do that? the script you sent work wonderfully!
- Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-25 20:31:24.069Z
Hm, that's odd, it works just fine for me on repeated use. Passing arguments to a plugin is not likely to be how these are intended to be used, so I don't think that's what you need to do here.
Can you try sending a support ticket and try telling exactly what you're doing and which error(s) you might see?
Steps here:- JJuan Arboleda @Juan_Arboleda
Now it is working when i restarted sibelius. weird. thank you for all your help! it's been invaluable!
- Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2024-03-25 22:40:04.525Z
Awesome! Very happy to hear it :)
- SIn reply toJuan_Arboleda⬆:SoundFlow Bot @soundflowbot
This issue is now tracked internally by SoundFlow as SF-1158
- SIn reply toJuan_Arboleda⬆:SoundFlow Bot @soundflowbot
The linked internal issue SF-1158 has been marked as Done