[JW Lua] Hairpins

[Robert Patterson]

I've never used the PDK Framework support for Smart Shapes. It's
complicated even with direct PDK access. That said:

1. You will almost certainly need to call SetCustomShaped(true). (What has
me confused is that in Finale each endpoint has its own customized bit, so
I am not sure how the PDK Framework is doing this without specifying the
left or right endpoint.

2. It's possible you are correct that FCSmartShapeCtrlPointAdjust is not
what you want. But if it isn't, then what you *do* want is not hooked up
through the PDK Framework. So it's worth fiddling further, I'd say.

Good luck.


On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 6:14 PM Martin Marris <mmarris at notecraft.com> wrote:

> I’ve been trying to adjust the right end-point of hairpins. In the source
> Finale material I am working with, these routinely collide with or cross
> the group barlines in conductor scores, but I want them to stop a bit
> before the barline (this issue gets even more exaggerated if the file is
> brought into another environment via MusicXML).
>
>
>
> From Google searches it seems like this is a known issue for Finale users,
> with all sorts of manual and semi-automated solutions. Indeed if I create a
> totally vanilla Finale document without using any special settings, that is
> exactly the behavior that I get when placing a slur. If you create a
> hairpin that spans a measure, it snaps to end exactly on the group barline.
>
>
>
> There is a sample script on the JW Lua website that loads FCSmartshape
> objects, filters for hairpins, and changes the hairpin opening size by
> changing the FCSmartShapeCtrlPointAdjust setting for ControlPoint1OffsetY.
>
>
>
> So far, so good. But when I try to change the “X” horizontal settings,
> nothing happens. I am beginning to think that these “control point adjust”
> settings have nothing to do with what I am trying to achieve, namely
> changing the X-offset (relative to the beat, or relative to the measure) of
> the SmartShape object.
>
>
>
> Martin
>
>
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