[JW Lua] Deleting a staff... completely.

[Robert Patterson]

Deleting staves has always been a challenge. There are no direct functions
that are equivalent to Data Check->File Maintenance. You could, of course,
call the menu item from your script, but it would still pop up the dialog
box.

Finale itself (by design) only hides the staff when you "delete" it. I do
not know the history behind this design choice, but I'm pretty certain it
goes back to version 1.0.



On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:14 AM Simon Leclerc <simon at sleclerc.ca> wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I was wondering if we had any kind of access through RGPLua to the
> elements of the “File Maintenance” window.
> The reason I’m asking is simple: when one deletes a staff, even if we
> don’t see it anymore, some elements of the staff are still somehow there.
> Even when deleting a staff is done manually (without going through a
> script), if you check the count of staves after, it is the same as before.
> It’s only when a “Remove Deleted Items” is performed that the clean up will
> be done (sometimes done when re-opening a file). It has its importance if
> you want your Page View to be udated properly.
>
> I checked an Enigma Text Dump output, and some unknown FC Categories are
> involved in the process.
>
> Any suggestions?
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> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> Simon Leclerc
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