[JW Lua] Weird accidental behaviour

[Jan Angermüller]

Thanks a lot, Robert, for you super quick replies!

But can I detect this automatically in JW Lua? Maybe you use other 
functions/flags in your plug-in?

When I run this JW Lua code, it always return false when trying to load 
an accidental mod.
So I haven't been able to detect an existing accidental mod here.

for e in eachentry(finenv.Region()) do
     if not e:IsRest() then
         local accmod=finale.FCAccidentalMod()
         accmod:SetNoteEntry(e)
         local note=e:GetItemAt(0)
         print(accmod:LoadAt(note))
         print(accmod.HorizontalPos)
         note=e:GetItemAt(1)
         print(accmod:LoadAt(note))
         print(accmod.HorizontalPos)
     end
end

Best,
Jan



Am 08.07.2020 um 15:21 schrieb Robert Patterson:
> This is a perfect use case for the Enigma Text Dump plugin I sent out 
> a couple of days ago.
>
> 1. Dump your accidtest.musx file using the plugin.
> 2. Nudge an accidental right then left, so its position is unchanged.
> 3. Dump the file again using the plugin.
> 4. Compare.
>
> I just did it, to make sure it works, but I already knew the answer. 
> This behavior of accidentals had a subtle change around 2000. I don't 
> remember the exact date. If the handle is on the left, it means there 
> is no FCAccidentalMod detail for that note. If it is on the right, it 
> means there is.
>
> You can use the same process as above to determine what your offsets 
> need to be.
>
> 1. Dump your original accidtest.musx file using the plugin.
> 2. Place the accidental where you want it to be.
> 3. Dump the file again using the plugin.
> 4. Compare
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 8:05 AM Jan Angermüller <jan at angermueller.com 
> <mailto:jan at angermueller.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jari et al.,
>
>     here is a weird accidental movement behaviour.
>
>     When I use the Accidental Mover tool (or FCAccidentalMod ->
>     HorizontalPos) and change the horizontal position to a new value,
>     the accidental jumps onto the notehead (!) and takes the notehead
>     as a new reference position.
>     This Finale document was created with Fin2002a.
>     The normal behaviour is that the change of the horizontal position
>     keeps the reference position (i.e. far before the notehead) and
>     moves only according to the new value.
>
>     See this video:
>     First the weird behaviour, then the normal behaviour (in the
>     Fin2014 default document):
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRLsU40Kog8
>
>     While making this video I also noticed, that sometimes the anchor
>     point changed (!).
>     So maybe there used to be a flag in Finale (<=2002) which changed
>     the alignment point of the accidental.
>     Have a look at the 23. second in this video: I click on the anchor
>     point and it suddenly jumps from the right of the accidental to
>     the left of the accidental.
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EjOfAlhwMM#t=20s
>     When the anchor point jumps (but this only happens very seldom,
>     and I can't reproduce it) and I check the FCAccidentalMod it
>     suddenly returns a -54 EVPU value for HorizontalPos. While by
>     default (when the anchor point hasn't jump before) it returns no
>     existing accidental mod and thus a 0 EVPU value.
>
>     I haven't found a way to detect or to remove this behaviour yet.
>     Probably it's not even possible.
>     Attached is the document with the measure from the video where
>     this weird thing happens.
>
>     Any ideas?
>     The only thing that came to mind: it was created with Fin2002a.
>     Maybe this was a bug in Fin2002a which they fixed in 2002b?
>     Or this was something available before 2002, but not supported
>     anymore.
>
>     Best,
>     Jan
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