[JW Lua] Visible Property and more

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Thank you very much for your quick response Jari.
Obviously your code is much better than mine.

Best regards,

Chris


Le 18/11/2013 19:57, Jari Williamsson a écrit :
> Chris,
>
> I've now put an example on the Wiki that explains how to create a page 
> text that's visible in one part only:
> http://jwmusic.nu/jwplugins/wiki/doku.php?id=jwlua:quickscripts&#create_page_text_in_one_part_only 
>
>
> In your code, I noticed that you used the ^fontTxt() Enigma tag. Do 
> NOT use ^fontTxt() for page text blocks (only use it for expressions 
> that i in a category that support a specific text font). Instead, use 
> ^font().
>
> Regarding the problem with saving the FCGroup object, there's one 
> script thing that needs to be changed: on Finale 2011 and higher you 
> should use SaveNew(0) for groups (groups are stored in the global 
> staff set nowadays). However, there's also a bug in JW Lua that 
> prevent FCGroup objects to get created from scratch. I'll look into 
> this bug and try to have it fixed in the next beta version.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jari Williamsson
>
> On 2013-11-18 15:34, GMail wrote:
>> Hello Jari
>>
>> I'm French (excuse my English) and I use "FINALE" for about 20 years.
>> I also participate in a french forum
>> (http://finale-logiciel-aide-gravure-musicale.eu/)
>> or the much talked about you and your wonderful plugins that are quick
>> and ergonomic.
>> In my spare time I do a little programming and I tried to write a Lua
>> script.
>> For my needs, I wrote this script that creates a text visible only on a
>> part.
>>
>> ---
>> function plugindef()
>>     -- This function and the 'finaleplugin' namespace
>>     -- are both reserved for the plug-in definition.
>>     finaleplugin.Author = "CHRIS"
>>     finaleplugin.Date = "13/11/2013"
>>     finaleplugin.CategoryTags = "Text"
>>     return "Texte sur Part", "", "Cree un texte visible uniquement sur
>> la part active"
>> end
>>
>>
>> -- demander texte a l'utilisateur
>> local dialog = finenv.UserValueInput()
>> dialog.Title = "CHRIS - Texte sur Part"
>> dialog:SetTypes("String")
>> dialog:SetDescriptions("Veuillez entrer votre texte :")
>> local returnvalues = dialog:Execute()
>>
>> -- si annuler -> fin
>> if returnvalues == nil then return end
>>
>> -- creer la chaine de caracteres Enigma
>> local myText = finale.FCString()
>> myText.LuaString = "^fontTxt(Arial, 0)^size(8)^nfx(0)" .. 
>> returnvalues[1]
>>
>> -- creer un objet texte attachee a une page
>> local myPageText = finale.FCPageText()
>>
>> -- positionner le texte
>> myPageText:SetHorizontalAlignment(finale.TEXTHORIZALIGN_LEFT)
>> myPageText:SetVerticalAlignment(finale.TEXTVERTALIGN_BOTTOM)
>>
>> -- cacher le texte globalement
>> myPageText:SetVisible(false)
>>
>> -- sauver
>> myPageText:SaveNewTextBlock(myText)
>> myPageText:SaveNew(1)
>>
>> -- memoriser l'ID du TextBlock
>> local id=myPageText.TextBlockID
>>
>> -- charger tous les textes attaches aux pages
>> pagetexts = finale.FCPageTexts()
>> pagetexts:LoadAll()
>>
>> -- rendre visible notre texte sur la part active
>> for pagetext in each(pagetexts) do
>>       if pagetext.TextBlockID  == id  then
>>          pagetext:SetVisible(true)
>>          pagetext:Save()
>>          break
>>       end
>> end
>> ---
>>
>> But I did not understand how stored non linked properties. (like the
>> "Visible" property).
>> And I do not know if my text search by TextBlockID is good.
>>
>> Otherwise I also made ​​this little script to create a group, but it
>> does not work:
>>
>> ---
>> local myGroup = finale.FCGroup()
>> myGroup:SetStartStaff(1)
>> myGroup:SetEndStaff(2)
>> myGroup:SetStartMeasure (1)
>> myGroup:SetEndMeasure(32767)
>> myGroup.BarlineShapeID=0
>> myGroup.BarlineStyle=1
>> myGroup.BarlineUse=false
>> myGroup.BracketID=2           --finale.BRACKET_PIANOBRAC
>> myGroup.FullNameHorizontalAdjust=-48
>> print(myGroup:SaveNew(1))
>> ---
>>
>> In the future I will try to make more short messages.
>> Thank you for all your work.
>>
>> Bests regards
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
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