This commit contains changes required for MuseScore to compile under MSVC with no warnings.
MuseScore is being compiled with the /W4 setting (warning level 4), which is similar to -wall -wextra on clang. This generates lots of warnings on MSVC, mainly for non-standard constructs and for constructs which might be bugs or might lead to bugs.
Most warnings are in the following categories:
- Name hiding: a variable hides a variable with the same name on a larger scope (or a field, or a function parameter). This can easily lead to bugs, and it is a best practice to avoid hiding variable names (see recommendation ES.12 in the C++ Core Guidelines by Stroustrop & Sutter (http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#Res-reuse : ES.12: Do not reuse names in nested scopes)
- Narrowing conversion: a numeric conversion results in loss of significant digits (for example, double -> float). The general recommendation is to use a cast to indicate this is designed behaviour.
- Unreachable code: in several instances, there is unreachable code. The unreachable code is commented out.
- (Potentially) uninitialized local variable. Just initialized the vars.
- foreach(,) -> for(:): this does not generate a warning per-se (only a few of these generate warnings due to name hiding), but changed in keeping with "MuseScore Coding Rules" (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/musescore-coding-rules#Loops), which tells explicitly "Use C++11's "for" instead of Qt's "foreach":" ... "If you happen to be fixing some code and see a "foreach", please change that loop into a "for"."
Most changes are in the categories indicated above. The next listing shows detailed changes for files which are *not* of the aforementioned types.
- all.h: Disable warning C4127 (conditional expression is constant - generated in Qt header file qvector.h)
- awl/aslider.h: unreachable code.
- awl/knob.cpp: name hiding
- awl/mslider.cpp: name hiding
- awl/slider.cpp: name hiding
- bww2mxml/parser.cpp: name hiding
- effects/compressor/compressor.cpp: narrowing conversion
- effects/zita1/zitagui.cpp: name hiding
- fluid/fluid.cpp: foreach replacement. Name hiding.
- fluid/mod.cpp: name hiding.
- fluid/sfont.cpp: foreach replacement. Name hiding. Initialize vars.
- fluid/voice.cpp: Name hiding.
- libmscore/accidental.cpp: Name hiding.
- libmscore/ambitus.cpp: Initialize vars.
- libmscore/barline.cpp: Name hiding. Unreachable code.
- libmscore/beam.cpp: Name hiding.
- libmscore/chordrest.cpp: Unreachable code.
- libmscore/scorefile.cpp: Name hiding.
- manual/genManual.cpp: Name hiding. foreach replacement.
- midi/midifile.cpp: Name hiding. Unreachable code.
- omr/importpdf.cpp: Name hiding. foreach replacement.
- omr/omr.cpp: Name hiding. foreach replacement.
- omr/omrpage.cpp: Name hiding. foreach replacement.
- omr/omrview.cpp: Name hiding. foreach replacement.
- synthesizer/event.cpp: Unreachable code.
- zerberus\channel.cpp: Narrowing conversion.
- zerberus\instrument.cpp: Name hiding.
- zerberus\sfz.cpp: Name hiding.
- zerberus\voice.h: Suppress warning C4201: "nonstandard extension used: nameless struct/union"
- zerberus\zerberus.cpp: Name hiding. Unreferenced parameter.
- zerberus\zerberusgui.cpp: Name hiding.
Introduce extensions files aka .muxt. These files are archives with additional data to extend MuseScore with soundfonts, templates, custom workspaces, etc.
Update qzip to fix bug with symlink.
Add extensions management to resource manager.
The old Preferences struct holding all preferences are removed in favor of a
new Preferences class which acts as a proxy for QSettings. The settings stored
in QSettings are accessed directly through access methods like getBool(key),
getInt(key), etc. and changed with setPreference(key, value).
Since we are using QSettings directly the preferences are stored automatically
without the need for a custom write() and read() method like before.
The preferences.cpp/.h and prefdialog.cpp/h are refactored to have fewer
responsibilities than before. The Preferences class are all about storing and
retrieving preferences - it should not contain any code to handle any other
aspect of MuseScore.
Testing:
The Preferences class can be used in tests. All preferences are initialized with
default values in mtest. If a test requires that a preference has a specific
value it can be changed using setPreference() for that single test. In the tests
the preferences are stored in memory only.
The Preference class is supposed to be used as a singleton. In preferences.h an
'extern Preferences preferences' is set and it is defined in preferences.cpp. All
files which includes preferences.h have access to the 'preferences' singleton
and should use this to get and set preferences.
Preferences::sfPath is renamed "mySoundfontsPath", which adheres to same naming scheme for myPluginsPath and myTemplatesPath, and now only stores the user-specified soundfont folders (no longer stores mscoreGlobalShare/sound). Any synthesizers loading soundfonts must make sure to look in mscoreGLobalShare/sound in addition to mySoundfontsPath. Removing mscoreGlobalShare/sound from the stored path fixes a bug with portable AppImages, which use a different temporary directory for mscoreGlobalShare on every execution.
