[JW Lua] Modifying beams

[Jan Angermüller]

Have you tried the other Save-functions from FCBeamMod ?
Save() usually only works with elements that already exist.
A beam mod probably only exists when it was touched manually.

Jan

Am 09.09.2015 um 18:19 schrieb Thomas Weber:
> Dear experts,
>
> I tryed using a snippet from the class browser (a value and bm:Save() was added):
>
>
> for noteentry in eachentry(finenv.Region()) do
>      local bm = finale.FCBeamMod()
>      bm:SetNoteEntry(noteentry)
>      if bm:LoadFirst() then
>          bm.LeftVerticalOffset = 100
>          bm:Save()
>      end
> end
>
>
> Interestingly, this does only have a visible effect if the beam has been touched manually with a special tool beforehand.
>
> I found that in order to make FCSmartShapeSegment::SetEndpointOffsetX have an effect, one has to flag the FCSmartShapeSegment with FCSmartShapeSegment::|SetCustomOffset||| first.  I wondered whether something similar was needed to work with FCBeamMod, but I didn't see a member that seemed to have a similar purpose to |SetCustomOffset||.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks!
> Thomas Weber
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