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

[Simon Leclerc]

Thanks Robert for the quick response.

What I’ve been doing is to have RGPLua call a Keyboard Maestro sequence (I’m on a Mac) to do the whole thing.
It works perfectly but I was hoping for a more direct and internal approach.

I’ll stay with this method for the time being :)





¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Simon Leclerc
60, Mirabelle
Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Québec
J8C 0W9
simon at sleclerc.ca




> On Apr 15, 2024, at 10:19, Robert Patterson <robert at robertgpatterson.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:14 AM Simon Leclerc <simon at sleclerc.ca <mailto: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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