[JW Lua] Staff-stuff (create, transposition, name)

[Bart Visser]

Hi Jari (and Chris),

Thanks for your replies (I've had a busy week so wasn't able to reply earlier).

I'm looking forward to the new version as it seems to add stuff that would be helpful to what I'm truing to do with JW Lua.

Jari: SetTransposeAlteration() and SetTransposeInterval() would be very helpful. Something like SetSimplyfyKey() would also help since it will give me the ability to do all the things I need to do with JW Lua. Thanks!

Again, many thanks formyour replies. And thanks for JW Lua. For me it adds to the joy of using Finale bigtime.

Regards,


Bart Visser

> Op 25 apr. 2014 om 13:26 heeft Jari Williamsson <jari.williamsson at mailbox.swipnet.se> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Bart,
> 
> Your code will not work if the staves doesn't have any existing staff name to overwrite. When I wrote this reply, I discovered that the latest JW Lua version you have doesn't have the SaveNewFullNameString() method, which was implemented after the last beta release.
> 
> Here's a modified version (for the next JW Lua build). Note that I also also modified it to check that the staff ID exists in the document, by checking that the table result is non-nil.
> 
> 
> function set_staff_names()
>    local all_staves = finale.FCStaves()
>    all_staves:LoadAll()
>    for staff in each(all_staves) do
>        current_name = staff:CreateFullNameString()
>            if (staff_names[staff.ItemNo]) then
>                current_name.LuaString = staff_names[staff.ItemNo] 
>                if not staff:SaveFullNameString(current_name) then
>                    staff:SaveNewFullNameString(current_name)
>                    staff:Save()
>                end
>            end
>    end
> end
> 
> The methods SetTransposeAlteration() and SetTransposeInterval() are also implemented in the next build. Would that cover what you need?
> 
> Saving new staves will arrive later. Now I'll prepare a new beta build of the stuff that have been implemented since the last public beta. I'll see if I can get creation of new staves in the build after that one.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jari Williamsson
> 
> 
>> On 2014-04-17 12:36, Bart Visser wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I try to name a bunch of new staves with JW Lua:
>> 
>> 
>> local staff_names = {
>>    [1] = "C",
>>    [4] = "Bb-bas",
>>    [5] = "C-bas",
>>    [6] = "Bb",
>>    [7] = "Eb-laag",
>>    [8] = "F",
>>    [9] = "Eb-hoog",
>> }
>> 
>> function set_staff_names()
>>    local all_staves = finale.FCStaves()
>>    all_staves:LoadAll()
>>    for staff in each(all_staves) do
>>        current_name = staff:CreateFullNameString()
>>             current_name.LuaString = staff_names[staff.ItemNo]
>>             print(staff:SaveFullNameString(current_name))
>>    end
>> end
>> 
>> set_staff_names()
>> 
>> It doesn't work (keeps returning false when calling the SaveFullNameString-method). Is there a way to get this working?
>> 
>> 
>> Also I would like to set the transposition of each staff (interval -6, etc.). If I read the documentation correctly, this isn't possible at the moment (you can get it but not set it). Would it be possible to add this function?
>> 
>> 
>> And while I'm mailing about staff-stuff: is it already possible to create a staff (with all kinds of custom properties) from scratch? (This wasn't possible when I first asked a few months ago).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> Bart Visser
>> 
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