[JW Lua] JW Lua v0.03

[Charles O. Lawrence]

Again thanks for your replies.  I don't think I was clear enough in my
question.  I meant the asterisk (*) seen on some methods and properties, not
the plural (collection) form.
I was thinking of a UI debug mode.
A repository for supplemental and/or 3rd party libraries and a way to
install them would be nice.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: JWLua [mailto:jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu] On Behalf Of Jari Williamsson
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 5:15 PM
To: The JW Lua script plug-in.
Subject: Re: [JW Lua] JW Lua v0.03

On 2013-08-27 19:50, Charles O. Lawrence wrote:
> Now we need a debug single step mode.

If you only need to track execution, you can build such a tool with just a
few rows of code. The standard Lua debug library is included.

If you need an UI to be able to press a key to step one row forward, you'll
have to wait a bit longer. A debugger is planned, but a repository is higher
on my list.

> One more question.  What do the *'s mean in the Class Explorer Methods 
> and Properties windows?

That's the plural (collection) version [except for "Prefs", which stands for
preferences].

Generally speaking, you load collections (those ending with 's') with a
method that loads a bunch of objects, such as "LoadAll()". The single-object
version is usually loaded with "Load()" or "LoadFirst()" 
or something similar.

For example:
FCPage is an object for one single layout page, such as...
---
page = finale.FCPage()
page:Load(1)    -- Loads the layout for the first page
---

FCPages is a collection object...
---
pages = finale.FCPages()
pages:LoadAll()   -- Load all pages for the current part
for p in each(pages) do
     -- 'p' is now one page in the collection end
---

> What does TGF stand for?

Don't remember... :-) I think "T" is for "tone" and "F" is for "frame". 
It's a term from the really old days Phil Farrand was "the" Finale
developer.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


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