[JW Lua] Undocumented finaleplugin fields and RGP Lua

[Jari Williamsson]

On 2021-12-02 21:45, Robert Patterson wrote:
> MinFinaleVersion
> MaxFinaleVersion
> 
> I would like RGP Lua to recognize these as well, but only if they use 
> the raw Finale version. If they use the Finale year, I see little point. 
> (For 64-bit JW Lua, the version year seems to be always 9999.) Does 
> anyone know how these work? Is there a reason to continue supporting them?

I see in the JW Lua sources that I never updated these beyond supporting 
2014. So I guess noone uses them. :-) The idea was:
Finale 2010 = 2010
Finale 2011 = 2011
Finale 2012 = 2012
Finale 2014 = 2014
Finale 25 = 2025
Finale 26 = 2026
etc.

This was to assure that each subsequent version number should be higher, 
to span the logical gap between Finale 2014 and Finale 25.

I also was thinking about raw version number checks (when MakeMusic 
started to implement new document features in the versions updates). I 
suggest that you use new fields for this, for example:
MinFinaleVersionRaw
MaxFinaleVersionRaw


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson