[JW Lua] macOS: Starting plug-ins with the ExecuteOSMenuCommand/MenuPositionCommand doesn't work

[Jan Angermüller]

Robert,

is there any trick for starting plug-ins from within a lua script with 
the finenv.UI():ExecuteOSMenuCommand***on macOS*?

On macOS I haven't succeeded neither with ExecuteOSMenuCommand nor with 
MenuPositionCommand.
On Windows both functions works fine.

finenv.UI():GetOSMenuCommandFromItemText seems to work fine on macOS.
Or it least it returns a value that seems to be valid (2033201231).

In the documentation it says that on macOS the Finale *document window 
must be in focus*.
Is this the problem? Can I force the document to be in focus?
I have tried finenv.UI():ActivateDocumentWindow ()  or 
finenv.UI():MenuCommand(finale.MENUCMD_SELECTIONTOOL) directly before 
finenv.UI():ExecuteOSMenuCommand.
It doesn't work.

Do you have a working example lua script to start any plug-in from the 
Finale Plug-ins menu on macOS?

This topic has already been twice on the mailing list for 
MenuPositionCommand() (see below).
But with no answers yet.

I had an interesting request for which I developed a working Windows 
script. But it doesn't work on macOS yet.
The request was for a script that starts another plug-in, but applies 
the plug-in only to all parts, not to the score.

Jan


Am 02.03.2020 um 15:47 schrieb Jan Angermüller:
> Hi Simon,
>
> did you find a solution for this?
> I encountered the same issue.
> It works fine on Windows, but on MacOS I can't access the Plug-ins 
> menu via MenuPositionCommand() either.
>
> Best,
> Jan
>
> Am 28.01.2017 um 18:09 schrieb Simon Leclerc:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I’m trying to access the menu “Plug-ins” (as in “File”, “Edit”, 
>> “Utilities”, etc…) using the ui:MenuPositionCommand(), but to no avail.
>>
>> I have access to all the other menus and sub-menus, but the “Plug-in” 
>> one, which should be #7 on a Mac system, seems not possible to be 
>> invoked.
>>
>> I tried many combinations, the zero-based concept not being true all 
>> the time, but could not find the right one.
>>
>> Any clue?
>>
>> Thanks to all.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon Leclerc
>> 60, Mirabelle
>> Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Québec
>> J8C 0W9
>> simon at prodsl.ca
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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