musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Display plug-in errors/logs to user if an error is encountered
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Since Jun 24, 2025.
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Description
Your idea
Currently if a plug-in has an error, that error is logged, but is not displayed to the user.
It would be good to display the error in a dialog box, and make the error copyable, so that the user can send the error report to the plug-in developer.
Problem to be solved
Currently if a plug-in has an error, execution stops, and no error message is given to the user. This is not good UX practice, and also makes plugin developers’ life harder.
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