[JW Lua] Creating a new Expression Category

[Jan Angermüller]

 From the documentation 
http://www.finaletips.nu/frameworkref/class_f_c_category_def.html:

"Please note that Finale does not allow plug-ins to create or delete 
category definitions."


Am 11.05.2016 um 13:56 schrieb Robert Wildling:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to create a new Expression Category withe the 
> name of "unused" (the intention is to move all unused textExprDefs and 
> ShaeexprDefs to that category).
>
> Starting out, I thought, this can only be done via selecting a 
> specific category and saving it using "SaveAs" and a new "ItemNo", 
> like this:
>
> ``[lua]
> local dynCat = finale.FCCategoryDef()
> if dynCat:Load(2) then
>     -- get the category name
>     local catName = finale.FCString()
>     dynCat:GetName(catName)
>
>     -- save it anew
>     dynCat:SaveNew()
>
> -- shows tha a new item number
> -- was generated (65535 ??? looks like an error...)
>     print(dynCat:GetItemNo())
> end
> ``
>
> But even though the category is assigned a new number (is 65535 an 
> indicator for an error here? look strange), no new category was 
> created. And if the ItemNo of the original category was changed, a 
> second run-through shouldn't work, since Load(2) shouldn't find 
> anything at that position... but it does...
>
> I am very confused... any hints and/or help would be much appreciated!
> Thanks!
>
>
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