[JW Lua] metatools assignments

[Joseph Weidinger]

Jari, any advice on this? I still cannot get a metakey assigned, even after
taking your advice into consideration. I made a bare minimum example that
demonstrates what won't work on this. It SHOULD create a new text
expression called "test" (which it does) and assign it to metakey "a"
(which it does not)
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local ted = finale.FCTextExpressionDef()

-- actual text of expression
expText = "test"
stringObject = finale.FCString()
stringObject.LuaString = "^fontTxt(Times New Roman,4096)^size(14)^nfx(1)"
.. expText
ted:SaveNewTextBlock(stringObject)

-- put into expression category
catdef = finale.FCCategoryDef()
catdef:Load(4)
ted:AssignToCategory(catdef)

-- assign metakey "a"
local ma = finale.FCMetatoolAssignment()
ma:SetMode(finale.MTOOLMODE_EXPRESSION)
ma:AssignTextExpressionDef(ted)
ma:SaveAsKeystroke(65)

ted:SaveNew()
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Joseph Weidinger <jsphweid at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I moved that above metatool assignment and wrapped a print around
> AssignTextExpressionDef. Still no metatool assignment but it *does* return
> true...
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Jan Angermüller <jan at angermueller.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I haven't tested it, but maybe call ted:SaveNew() *before *assigning the
>> metatool ?
>> I am not sure, but the text expression might need "to be registered in
>> the system" before assigning the metatool.
>> Does AssignTextExpressionDef
>> <http://www.finaletips.nu/frameworkref/class_f_c_metatool_assignment.html#ab9c22e27b1d9d30357d5a8d63b775acb>
>> return true ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 08.11.2015 um 14:39 schrieb Joseph Weidinger:
>>
>> Thanks.  However, I did all of those things and it still does assign the
>> metakey. Here is the updated part + the rest of the relevant code in case
>> maybe it is part of a larger problem (?).
>>
>> function makeBoldAbove(expressionText)
>> local ted = finale.FCTextExpressionDef()
>>
>> -- actual text
>> stringObject = finale.FCString()
>> stringObject.LuaString = "^fontTxt(Times New Roman,4096)^size(14)^nfx(1)"
>> .. expressionText
>> ted:SaveNewTextBlock(stringObject)
>>
>> -- description
>> local descriptionstr = finale.FCString()
>> descriptionstr.LuaString = expressionText -- get it from userinput also,
>> why not
>> ted:SetDescription(descriptionstr)
>>
>> -- put into which category?
>> catdef = finale.FCCategoryDef()
>> catdef:Load(4) -- 4 is expressions
>> ted:AssignToCategory(catdef)
>>
>> -- we will not use standard positioning
>> ted:SetUseCategoryPos(false)
>>
>> -- here is the positioning data
>>
>> ted:SetVerticalAlignmentPoint(finale.ALIGNVERT_ABOVE_STAFF_BASELINE_OR_ENTRY)
>> ted:SetVerticalBaselineOffset(-26)
>> ted:SetVerticalEntryOffset(36)
>> ted:SetHorizontalJustification(finale.EXPRJUSTIFY_LEFT)
>> ted:SetHorizontalAlignmentPoint(finale.ALIGNHORIZ_CLICKPOS)
>> ted:SetHorizontalOffset(0)
>> ted:SetBreakMMRest(false)
>>
>>
>> local ma = finale.FCMetatoolAssignment()
>> ma:SetMode(finale.MTOOLMODE_EXPRESSION)
>> ma:AssignTextExpressionDef(ted)
>> ma:SaveAsKeystroke(65)
>>
>> ted:SaveNew()
>>
>> return ted:GetItemNo()
>> end
>>
>> local expressionID = makeBoldAbove("test") -- create it and get its new ID
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Jari Williamsson <
>> jari.williamsson at mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Joseph,
>>>
>>> In addition to what Jan said:
>>> * Remove the call to SaveNew(), since it isn't needed. SaveNew() should
>>> only be used for classes that can save a list of objects to the same
>>> location. SaveAsKeyStroke() is the SaveAs method to use for metatool
>>> assignments.
>>>
>>> * Put the AssignTextExpressionDef before the save, otherwise the
>>> connection to the text expression def will not be saved to Finale.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Jari Williamsson
>>>
>>> On 2015-11-08 11:07, Jan Angermüller wrote:
>>>
>>>> As the online documentation says for AssignTextExpressionDef:
>>>> "The mode for the object must be set to MTOOLMODE_EXPRESSION *in
>>>> advance*. "
>>>>
>>>> So you need a SetMode before.
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>> Am 08.11.2015 um 09:04 schrieb Joseph Weidinger:
>>>>
>>>>> I am creating a new text expression definition (ted) and that part
>>>>> works. However it won't assign the metakey "a" (which is 65 apparently)
>>>>>
>>>>> I try to do this:
>>>>> ~ ted defined and working great
>>>>>
>>>>> local ma = finale.FCMetatoolAssignment()
>>>>> ma:SaveAsKeystroke(65)
>>>>> ma:SaveNew()
>>>>> ma:AssignTextExpressionDef(ted)
>>>>>
>>>>> ted:SaveNew()
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it has something to do with set mode? I coculdn't get anything
>>>>> to work. Help appreciated! Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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