[JW Lua] Create new staff + text block bug?

[Jari Williamsson]

On 2013-11-09 21:49, Bart Visser wrote:

> Third post in 24 hours. I promise this will be my last one for the weekend :-)

You're welcome to post as much as you need. I hope that the list users 
have set up a filter to sort the JW Lua mails into a separate mail 
folder, or to use the Digest version. ;-)

> I’m trying to build a new staff from scratch. The script runs without
> errors, but the newly created staff doesn’t show up in the score.
> Is there any function I should call to have it show up?

It's currently not supported by FCStaff and I've actually never done 
that myself. I need to get back to you later on this topic. Even when 
the staff has been created, there would be some additional work to be 
done to get the staff displayed in the systems on a page.

Actually, if you look at the return value of SaveNew(), it would 
probably return false, as an indication that nothing was saved.

> But if I open and close the Frame Attributes via the
> Text-menu, it jumps straight to the center of the page. In
> other words: the text block has the right alignment-properties,
> but it isn’t put in the center of the page. Could this be a bug?

Yes, Dave reported this a while ago. Finale's UI (in the Frame 
Attributes) is automatically copying the info from the left to the 
right-side page info if "Use right page positioning" is OFF.

The next beta will emulate the UI's behaviour. For now, you need to set 
the HorizontalAlignmentRightPage property as well as a workaround.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson