[JW Lua] Copy/Paste With FCMusicRegion()

[Robert Patterson]

Unfortunately, this may be a bug in either JW Lua or Finale. It may also be
limited to Windows Finale. I have no personal experience with it, because I
have never used the underlying API calls in the PDK. It is unfortunate that
the PDK Framework does not provide a way to call the Copy/Paste menu items
in the Edit menu. This is what I would do if programming directly to the
PDK. (I don't trust the Copy/Paste APIs because I don't think they get much
use, and they use clip files.)

You could try creating the directory it wants to write the clip files in.
Maybe that would help. IDK.


On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 1:47 PM Martin Marris <mmarris at notecraft.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
>
>
> Do you mean like this? It’s not working, I get a variant of the same
> message box error notification:
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> local musicregion = finale.FCMusicRegion()
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>
> musicregion.StartMeasure = 1
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> musicregion.EndMeasure = 2
>
> musicregion:SetInDocument()
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> musicregion:CopyMusic()
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>
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> musicregion.StartMeasure = 3
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> musicregion.EndMeasure = 4
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> musicregion:SetInDocument()
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> musicregion:PasteMusic()
>
>
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> musicregion:ReleaseMusic()
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>
>
> Martin
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>
>
> *From:* JWLua <jwlua-bounces at jwmusic.nu> *On Behalf Of *Robert Patterson
> *Sent:* Monday, December 14, 2020 19:36
> *To:* The JW Lua script plug-in. <jwlua at jwmusic.nu>
> *Subject:* Re: [JW Lua] Copy/Paste With FCMusicRegion()
>
>
>
> Try calling musicregion:SetInDocument() after setting the start and end
> measures (both times).
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>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 1:18 PM Martin Marris <mmarris at notecraft.com>
> wrote:
>
> I am trying to create a Region programmatically (rather than through user
> interaction).
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> Then, copy/paste between regions.
>
>
>
> But if I run the following simple script:
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> local musicregion = finale.FCMusicRegion()
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> musicregion.StartMeasure = 1
>
> musicregion.EndMeasure = 2
>
> musicregion:CopyMusic()
>
> musicregion.StartMeasure = 3
>
> musicregion.EndMeasure = 4
>
> musicregion:PasteMusic()
>
> musicregion:ReleaseMusic()
>
>
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> I get this result:
>
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> Message box: Title “Finale” and text “Cannot read library
> c:\users\myusername\AppDate\LocalLow\Fin33B.tmp”.
>
>
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> Why?
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>
>
> Martin
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