[JW Lua] Staff name position can't be changed

[Jari Williamsson]

Jan,

I'll try to add a solution for this in the upcoming beta.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


On 2015-11-19 18:04, Jan Angermüller wrote:
> Jari,
>
> if I followed all updates to FCStaffBase/FCStaff/FCStaffStyleDef
> correctly until the latest 0.43 release, it (still) isn't possible to
> change the FCStaffNamePosition if it hadn't been changed before as the
> *property **Use**FullNamePositioning**is missing* in the interface and
> won't be set to true automatically if FCStaffNamePosition had been
> changed. So the new position will be stored internally, but not used
> visually -  as "Full Staff Name Position" can't be checked in the Staff
> Attributes dialog.
>
> Same goes for Use*Abbreviated*NamePositioning.
>
> In FCGroup it's also the same thing, but there we already have the
> property UseFullNamePosition. So it works fine there.
>
> Below is the code snippet. It (visually) shifts the staff name *only*,
> if "Full Staff Name Position" in the Staff Attributes dialog was checked
> before. If it wasn't checked, it will not visually effect the position,
> but only change the vertical value in the "Position Full Staff Name" dialog.
>
> I posted a similar mail on the 22nd of March 2015 (AFAIK without
> response). But I think this description is clearer now.
>
> All the best,
> Jan
>
> local staves=finale.FCStaves()
> staves:LoadAll()
> for s in each(staves) do
>      local staffpos=s:GetFullNamePosition()
>      staffpos.VerticalOffset=staffpos.VerticalOffset+150
>      s:Save()
> end
>
>
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