[JW Lua] Using the input dialog

[Charles O. Lawrence]

Thanks Jari,

I suspected the dialog box had a bug on returning values, but I was not sure
if it was something I was missing.  I should have realized that the
Execute() method returned a table.  Thanks for pointing that out.  I looked
at the FCUI class in the docs and see lots of good stuff.  I just added the
question on the spur of the moment without looking in the classes docs.  I
have not seen any docs on the finenv namespace, maybe there is a doc page,
but I think the 3 items you mention have been shown in examples.

Charles Lawrence



-----Original Message-----
From: JWLua [mailto:jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu] On Behalf Of Jari Williamsson
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 3:01 AM
To: The JW Lua script plug-in.
Subject: Re: [JW Lua] Using the input dia;og

On 2013-09-03 00:54, Charles O. Lawrence wrote:

> I hate to keep bothering you, but the below script seems to ignore the 
> 3^rd and 4^th checkboxes.  They are initialized to true, but always 
> show as false, no matter how they are checked.  Am I missing something?

That was a bug - thanks for the report! I've fixed that now and it should
work in the next beta. (Only 2 user values was read from the dialog box,
same bug affected the entry fields.)

Btw, the return value from the dialog:Execute() is already a table, so you
can use the pairs() iterator directly on that if you want.

> Are there other properties or methods for the finenv namespace?

Currently, finenv is used for 3 things only:
* To get the global UI object - finenv.UI().
* To create a new user value input dialog object - finenv.UserValueInput()
* A shortcut to the currently selected region object - finenv.Region().


> Are there other properties or methods for finale:FCUI?  You mentioned 
> the Beep().

Yes, there's lots of stuff in FCUI and they should be marked as
Lua-supported in the FCUI docs. The methods for alert boxes is probably
generally useful. There's an example on how to use the AlertYesNo in the
"create tacet" sample script (mentioned in a separate recent post).


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


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