[JW Lua] Updating expression categories

[Robert Patterson]

You have to rewrite the font info in the enigma string
<http://jwmusic.nu/jwplugins/wiki/doku.php?id=jwlua:enigmastrings>. I think
there are library functions to help with this. Look in enigma_string
library. Somewhere in the repo there's an example of assigning an
expressions to a category and syncing the font, but I don't remember where
now.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:47 AM Aaron Sherber <aaron at sherber.com> wrote:

> Hi Jan,
>
> Thanks -- but update how? I've tried setting and unsetting
> UseCategoryFonts, force setting the CategoryID, and using
> exp.AssignToCategory(), but none of those seem to work.
>
> Aaron.
>
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:11 AM Jan Angermüller <jan at angermueller.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> here is a very old mail from Jari. You need to update the expressions
>> with an extra loop.
>>
>> Am 04.09.2014 um 18:29 schrieb Jari Williamsson:
>>
>> Some additional info: Expression defs are actually very weak linked with
>> the categories in Finale (much more weak than the impression the UI gives).
>> If you make changes to a category, you need to manually update all
>> expression defs that connects that category.
>>
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 24.03.2023 um 14:06 schrieb Aaron Sherber:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If I use FCCategoryDef to change the font of a category, it appears that
>> existing expressions which are set to use the category font don't
>> automatically pick up this change. If I go into the Expression Designer,
>> the expressions still show using their old font. I need to uncheck and
>> recheck "Use Category Fonts" in order to get each expression to update.
>> Doing this in code (i.e., looping through FCTextExpressionDefs and setting
>> UseCategoryFont to false and then true and saving) doesn't seem to work
>> either.
>>
>> Is there some programmatic way to get expressions to recognize changes to
>> their categories?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron.
>>
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