[JW Lua] Ctrl-Pos1/Ctrl-End behaviour

[Jari Williamsson]

Jan,

Thanks for the report. I wasn't aware of this. I've documented this bug 
and will make sure that it gets reported to MM.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


On 2014-07-17 13:49, Jan Angermüller wrote:
> Jari,
>
> probably the same sort of problem as the F key:
> When the expression tool is selected in Finale,
> the Ctrl-Pos1 (=going back to beginning of document)
> and Ctrl-End (=going to end of document)
> do not work in JW Lua.
> When other tools are selected, they work fine.
>
> Jan
>
> Am 15.07.2014 23:38, schrieb Jari Williamsson:
>> Jan,
>>
>> The F key in the Smart Shape Tool is a reported bug in Finale/Windows.
>> You get the same behaviour for any modeless window in the Smart Shape
>> Tool (such as trying to add text with the letter F in a Score Manager
>> entry field while the Smart Shape Tool is active).
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jari Williamsson
>>
>>
>> On 2014-07-15 23:26, Jan Angermüller wrote:
>>> ah ok, yes, reading from the corresponding note entry was already my
>>> workaround.
>>> Thanks for the quick response !
>>>
>>> BTW, I get a strange keyboard behaviour with JW Lua under the following
>>> conditions (Win7/Fin2014):
>>> I am in SmartShape mode and have a slur selected.
>>> Then I set focus to the JW Lua dialog (which is open all the time)
>>> with a mouse click and enter the letter "f" in the JW Lua editor text
>>> field.
>>> Although JW Lua is the top window now (Finale is in backgrond),
>>> the letter f does not appear in the text field, but flips the selected
>>> slur.
>>> I don't know if this happens with every Finale. Actually I had
>>> never flipped a slur before with the letter "f" so it can't be a
>>> macro or shortcut that I edited manually.
>>> And it's the only letter that leads to strange behaviour.
>>> Any idea what this comes from ?
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 15.07.2014 23:10, schrieb Jari Williamsson:
>>>> Jan,
>>>>
>>>> You only get the MeasurePos if the smart shape is measure-attached. If
>>>> the shape is entry-attached, you need to get the entry number and then
>>>> load+map to the entry, where you can get the entry's MeasurePos.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jari Williamsson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-07-15 22:04, Jan Angermüller wrote:
>>>>> Jari,
>>>>>
>>>>> if I create an FCSmartShapeSegment from an FCSmartShape that is a slur
>>>>> (IsSlur() == true),
>>>>> then MeasurePos from FCSmartShapeSegment returns a strange result
>>>>> which
>>>>> is not
>>>>> the MeasurePos.
>>>>> It seems to me like an entry or identification number is returned
>>>>> instead.
>>>>> The difference between the left and the right measure pos is
>>>>> usually the
>>>>> number of note entries below the slur.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try this script on a selected measure with a slur:
>>>>>
>>>>> local marks = finale.FCSmartShapeMeasureMarks()
>>>>> marks:LoadAllForRegion( finenv.Region(), true)
>>>>> for mark in each(marks) do
>>>>>      local smartshape = mark:CreateSmartShape()
>>>>>      if (smartshape ~= nil) then
>>>>>            local leftseg = smartshape:GetTerminateSegmentLeft()
>>>>>            local rightseg = smartshape:GetTerminateSegmentRight()
>>>>>            print("Left MeasurePos",leftseg.MeasurePos)
>>>>>            print("Right MeasurePos",rightseg.MeasurePos)
>>>>>     end
>>>>> end
>>>>>
>>>>> It should return for example 0 and 4096 in a 4/4 measure with
>>>>> one big slur over all notes, but it returns something like 24123 and
>>>>> 24126.
>>>>>
>>>>> For smartshape hairpins the left/right measure pos are ok.
>>>>> It's only the slurs that have this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan
>>>>>
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