[JW Lua] FCPageTexts - Retrieve Item at a specific index

[Jari Williamsson]

Bruce,

If you explicitly want to load a FCPageText object with a known 
cmperno/incino, use object:Load(cmperno, incino). That method is 
inherited from the __FCInciOther class.

Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


On 2014-11-29 18:07, Bruce Olson wrote:
> Jari,
>
> Thanks, the iterating through part I have. What I want to do is load a
> specific FCPageText after I have once iterated through it. My first pass
> using code like you posted below modifies a table with the FirstPage and 5
> other values.
>
> Then I loop through this table to see which rows are nil and which were
> found. If it was found in the first pass then determine using
> IsEnigmaFileInfoTitle() which one it is, and modify some values using the
> data from a second table. If it was not found in the first pass, then add it
> using the data from the second table. The second table is in the same order
> as the first table.
>
> I hope that makes sense.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JWLua [mailto:jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu] On Behalf Of Jari Williamsson
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 10:47 AM
> To: The JW Lua script plug-in.
> Subject: Re: [JW Lua] FCPageTexts - Retrieve Item at a specific index
>
> Bruce,
>
> You're correct about how the ItemCmper/ItemInci works in connection with
> FCPageText. However, you should rarely need to know that for most kind of
> script programming. :-)
>
> In your first message, you said you wanted to iterate through all the page
> text. This is done with something similar to:
> ---
> local pagetexts = finale.FCPageTexts()
> pagetexts:LoadAll()
> for ptext in each(pagetexts) do
>      local rawstr = ptext:CreateTextString()
>      print("First page:", ptext.FirstPage, "Last page:", ptext.LastPage, "Raw
> string:", rawstr.LuaString) end
> ---
>
> It's not possible to locate text block data in any pre-determined order.
> Data is added/removed as required in the order the user decides to do it.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jari Williamsson
>
>
>
> On 2014-11-29 05:45, Bruce Olson wrote:
>> Hi Jari,
>>
>> I’ve been poking around in the list archives and found this reply from
>> you in two messages to Charles:
>>
>> -- The record location for certain types of data. I added that so it
>> would
>> -- be possible to see the storage location on existing instances of
>> -- FCPageText, for example. ItemCmper would be the same as the value
>> you
>> -- send to FCPageText:SaveNew(). ItemInci is the 0-based "record index"
>> -- within the ItemCmper.
>> -- In what scope? In the FCPageText scope, ItemCmper would be the page
>> -- number and ItemInci would be the subrecord number for objects
>> stored on
>> -- that page:
>> -- http://www.finaletips.nu/frameworkref/class_____f_c_inci_other.html
>>
>> This is getting me closer, but ItemCmper is the Page # only for single
>> page items. It seems to be set to 0 for page ranges. Is that right? So
>> that leads me to thinking that I should be using Load(<arguments>) to
>> get a specific one, but I haven't quite figured out what the syntax should
> be.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bruce
>>
>> From: JWLua [mailto:jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu] On Behalf Of
>> Finale at web.yosound.com
>> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 3:03 PM
>> To: JWLua at jwmusic.nu
>> Subject: [JW Lua] FCPageTexts - Retrieve Item at a specific index
>>
>> Hi Jari,
>>
>> I am trying to iterate through all of the Page Text items in order to
>> either update them or add them if they are missing in a document. This
>> is in order to give a standard look to all the charts I write for my
>> big band. I think what I should be using is GetItemAt, but am stuck trying
> to implement it.
>>
>> My process is to first iterate through all of them and modify a table
>> with a flag to indicate that it exists by inserting an ID. I thought
>> that ItemCmper and ItemInci were what I should use, but was wondering
>> if there is an easier way.
>>
>>
>>
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