[JW Lua] get all items of "Expression Tool"

[Jan Angermüller]

Hi Robert,

you should use the JW Lua class browser, the online class documentation 
and the examples that Jari put on his website to find this out.

The online class documentation starts here:
http://www.finaletips.nu/frameworkref/annotated.html
So you browse to FCTextExpressionDef and search for "Description" and 
you will have your solution.

The same result can be found in the JW Lua class browser:
Go to FCTextExpressionDef and enter "Description" in the Properties 
and/or Methods search fields. Then you'll even get a sample code.

Best,
Jan



Am 10.05.2016 um 10:44 schrieb Robert Wildling:
> Thank you for your script, Bart Visser! That is extremly helpful!!!
>
> At the moment I am struggeling with getting the text of the 
> Description field (of a Expression Tool item). The "JW Lua" Class 
> Browser offers a GetDescription(argString) method (without a return 
> value?), but it obviously needs a string to do something. Instead, I 
> need to read and return the Description in order to compare it to 
> another string...
>
> local str = finale.FCString()
> str.LuaString = [a variable from somewhere else like "DoubleStaffMMR5"]
>
> ... and now?
>
> Any hint would be most welcome!
> Thanks!
>
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> *Robert Wildling*
> Göllnergasse 19/30 || A-1030 Vienna
> ph: +43 676 6089613
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> 2016-05-08 18:37 GMT+02:00 Robert Wildling <robertwildling at gmail.com 
> <mailto:robertwildling at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     this is my first post and also my first day with JW Lua from a
>     developer point of view. Quite amazing, what can be done with it!
>
>     Currently I would like to adapt the awesome DoubleStaffMMR Lua
>     script that is somewhere out the in the forums. Whenever this
>     plugin is applied, it creates one (and only one!) MultiMeasureRest
>     number to a 2-staff-system instruments, hiding the default
>     settings (which make a MMR appear twice).
>
>     The numbers are created as text expressions saved in the
>     "Miscellaneous" category. The disadvantage of this plugin is that
>     it creates a number for each measure, not checking whether a
>     number already exists as a text expression. So I would like to
>     fetch all the data that can be found in the "Miscellaneous"
>     category, check against the "Description" field (where is says
>     "DoubleStaffMMR_[number]") and use the existing item, or only then
>     create a new item.
>
>     That's the theory. Now for the practical part: How do I fetch all
>     items from the "Miscellaneous" category?
>
>     Thanks for any tips!
>
>     Greetings,
>     Robert
>
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