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    <p>You should check the class browser to see if a Save() is
      available.</p>
    <p>Usually a class has at least one Save() or similar function like
      SaveNew, SaveAs...<br>
    </p>
    <p>Only subclasses like FCSmartShapeSegment that are directly
      connected to a main class don't have it. There you need to save
      the main class after updating the subclass.<br>
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    <p>It's also described in detail in the mail archive.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 11.05.2016 um 17:35 schrieb Robert
      Wildling:<br>
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Jan,
          thanks so much!</div>
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br>
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I
          tried this script, it works without throwing an error - but
          also without the expected result. Is there probably a Save()
          command I am not aware of?</div>
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          style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">----------------------</div>
        <div class="gmail_default" style="">
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">function plugindef()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- Requires the creation
              of a new category "ZZZ_NOT_USED"; </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- TODO: items
              (textExprDef) moved to that category could loose</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- some aspects, if
              certain features of an item are available in the cateory</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">   finaleplugin.CategoryTags =
              "Expression"</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">   return
              "CreateUnusedCategory", "undoCreateUnusedCategory",
              "Create a category that will hold all unused elements"</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">end</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">-- Find category with name
              "ZZZ_NOT_USED"; needs to be created manually!</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">local catMoveToName =
              finale.FCString()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">catMoveToName.LuaString =
              "ZZZ_NOT_USED"</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">-- Prepare the category, where
              unused elements will be moved to </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">-- (needs to be in the global
              namespace, not within a funcion! Therefore it is defined
              here.)</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">local moveToCat =
              finale.FCCategoryDef()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">-- To do so, load all
              categories and seach for the Name string of the </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">local catNotUsed =
              finale.FCCategoryDefs()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">catNotUsed:LoadAll()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">for cd in each(catNotUsed) do</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    local catName =
              cd:CreateName()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- if a category with the
              name "ZZZ_NOT_USED" is found, get its ID and load that
              very category</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    if catName.LuaString ==
              "ZZZ_NOT_USED" then</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        local catID =
              cd:GetID()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        moveToCat:Load(catID)</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        -- just for debugging
              purposes, get the name again and display it in the console</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        local moveToCatName =
              moveToCat:CreateName()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        print("NAME: ",
              moveToCatName.LuaString)</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    end</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">end</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">--local catMoveToItemNo =
              catNotUsed:FindName(catMoveToName) -- returns an object of
              type "userdata"</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">-- prepare some FCString
              variables</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">local tedName =
              finale.FCString()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">local tedDescr =
              finale.FCString()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">-- Now, get all
              textExpressionDefinitons</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">local textexpressiondefs =
              finale.FCTextExpressionDefs()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">textexpressiondefs:LoadAll()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">for ted in
              each(textexpressiondefs) do</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    --get ItemNo of this
              txtExprDef</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    local tedItemNo =
              ted:GetItemNo()</font></div>
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              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- get the Category ID to
              which this txtExprDef is assigned to</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    local tedCatID =
              ted:GetCategoryID()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- based on the retrieved
              category ID, load that very category and retrieve its name
              (for debug display)</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    local cat =
              finale.FCCategoryDef();</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    cat:Load(tedCatID)</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    local catName =
              finale.FCString()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    cat:GetName(catName)</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444"><br>
            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- Just as a test, get all
              textExpreDef from the category test and move them to
              "ZZZ_NOT_USED"</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    -- Later on there should
              be a check, whether any of these items it NOT in use in
              the score - but how??? TODO</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">    if catName.LuaString ==
              "TEST" then</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">       
              --ted.AssignToCategory(moveToCat) -- not working; the
              online documentation says "FCCategoryDef expected", the
              error console "'AssignToCategory' (FCTextExpressionDef
              expected, got __FCBase)"</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">         
               print(moveToCat:GetID())</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">       
              ted:SetCategoryID(moveToCat:GetID())</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        local descr =
              finale.FCString()</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">        descr.LuaString =
              "Moved Item"</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">       
              ted:SetDescription(descr);</font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
              sans-serif" color="#444444">   end</font></div>
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            </font></div>
          <div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
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               1. Creating a new Expression Category (Robert Wildling)<br>
               2. Re: Creating a new Expression Category (Jan
            Angerm?ller)<br>
               3. Re: FCStaffStyleDef:Load(...) always returns true
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            Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:56:18 +0200<br>
            From: Robert Wildling <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            Subject: [JW Lua] Creating a new Expression Category<br>
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            Hi,<br>
            <br>
            I am looking for a way to create a new Expression Category
            withe the name<br>
            of "unused" (the intention is to move all unused
            textExprDefs and<br>
            ShaeexprDefs to that category).<br>
            <br>
            Starting out, I thought, this can only be done via selecting
            a specific<br>
            category and saving it using "SaveAs" and a new "ItemNo",
            like this:<br>
            <br>
            ``[lua]<br>
            local dynCat = finale.FCCategoryDef()<br>
            if dynCat:Load(2) then<br>
                -- get the category name<br>
                local catName = finale.FCString()<br>
                dynCat:GetName(catName)<br>
            <br>
                -- save it anew<br>
                dynCat:SaveNew()<br>
            <br>
                 -- shows tha a new item number<br>
                -- was generated (65535 ??? looks like an error...)<br>
                print(dynCat:GetItemNo())<br>
            end<br>
            ``<br>
            <br>
            But even though the category is assigned a new number (is
            65535 an<br>
            indicator for an error here? look strange), no new category
            was created.<br>
            And if the ItemNo of the original category was changed, a
            second<br>
            run-through shouldn't work, since Load(2) shouldn't find
            anything at that<br>
            position... but it does...<br>
            <br>
            I am very confused... any hints and/or help would be much
            appreciated!<br>
            Thanks!<br>
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            Message: 2<br>
            Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 14:12:12 +0200<br>
            From: Jan Angerm?ller <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            To: "The JW Lua script plug-in." <<a
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            Subject: Re: [JW Lua] Creating a new Expression Category<br>
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             From the documentation<br>
            <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.finaletips.nu/frameworkref/class_f_c_category_def.html"
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            <br>
            "Please note that Finale does not allow plug-ins to create
            or delete<br>
            category definitions."<br>
            <br>
            <br>
            Am 11.05.2016 um 13:56 schrieb Robert Wildling:<br>
            > Hi,<br>
            ><br>
            > I am looking for a way to create a new Expression
            Category withe the<br>
            > name of "unused" (the intention is to move all unused
            textExprDefs and<br>
            > ShaeexprDefs to that category).<br>
            ><br>
            > Starting out, I thought, this can only be done via
            selecting a<br>
            > specific category and saving it using "SaveAs" and a
            new "ItemNo",<br>
            > like this:<br>
            ><br>
            > ``[lua]<br>
            > local dynCat = finale.FCCategoryDef()<br>
            > if dynCat:Load(2) then<br>
            >     -- get the category name<br>
            >     local catName = finale.FCString()<br>
            >     dynCat:GetName(catName)<br>
            ><br>
            >     -- save it anew<br>
            >     dynCat:SaveNew()<br>
            ><br>
            > -- shows tha a new item number<br>
            > -- was generated (65535 ??? looks like an error...)<br>
            >     print(dynCat:GetItemNo())<br>
            > end<br>
            > ``<br>
            ><br>
            > But even though the category is assigned a new number
            (is 65535 an<br>
            > indicator for an error here? look strange), no new
            category was<br>
            > created. And if the ItemNo of the original category was
            changed, a<br>
            > second run-through shouldn't work, since Load(2)
            shouldn't find<br>
            > anything at that position... but it does...<br>
            ><br>
            > I am very confused... any hints and/or help would be
            much appreciated!<br>
            > Thanks!<br>
            ><br>
            ><br>
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            Message: 3<br>
            Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:37:46 +0200<br>
            From: Chris <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:marcel.denio@gmail.com">marcel.denio@gmail.com</a>><br>
            To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            Subject: Re: [JW Lua] FCStaffStyleDef:Load(...) always
            returns true<br>
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            Hello Jan<br>
            <br>
            The problem is that the list index (ItemNo) is broken:<br>
            1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 .... 13 .... 20 ... 25 ......<br>
            But why ???<br>
            <br>
            With this script, you retrieve the list  (66 is your last
            index) :<br>
            <br>
            ---------------------------------------------<br>
            for i =1,66 do<br>
                 local namestr=finale.FCString()<br>
                 local s=finale.FCStaffStyleDef()<br>
                 s:Load(i)<br>
                 s:GetName(namestr)<br>
            <br>
                 if namestr.LuaString=="" then<br>
                     local name = finale.FCString()<br>
                     name.LuaString = "dummy " .. i<br>
                     s:SetName(name)<br>
                     s:Save()<br>
                 end<br>
            end<br>
            ---------------------------------------------<br>
            <br>
            Best regards<br>
            <br>
            Chris<br>
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            Message: 4<br>
            Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:38:34 +0200<br>
            From: Robert Wildling <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:robertwildling@gmail.com">robertwildling@gmail.com</a>><br>
            To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            Subject: Re: [JW Lua] Creating a new Expression Category<br>
            Message-ID:<br>
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            Thanks, Jan!<br>
            <br>
            (Why do I not receive an email, when you post your answer?
            hmmm...)<br>
            <br>
            Does this also mean that I cannot move around
            TextExpressionDefs from one<br>
            Cat to another? Provided that I can check whether the item
            is used in the<br>
            score or not (which I still didn't find the proper method
            for...)<br>
            <br>
            Best,<br>
            Robert<br>
            <br>
            2016-05-11 13:56 GMT+02:00 Robert Wildling <<a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:robertwildling@gmail.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:robertwildling@gmail.com">robertwildling@gmail.com</a></a>>:<br>
            <br>
            > Hi,<br>
            ><br>
            > I am looking for a way to create a new Expression
            Category withe the name<br>
            > of "unused" (the intention is to move all unused
            textExprDefs and<br>
            > ShaeexprDefs to that category).<br>
            ><br>
            > Starting out, I thought, this can only be done via
            selecting a specific<br>
            > category and saving it using "SaveAs" and a new
            "ItemNo", like this:<br>
            ><br>
            > ``[lua]<br>
            > local dynCat = finale.FCCategoryDef()<br>
            > if dynCat:Load(2) then<br>
            >     -- get the category name<br>
            >     local catName = finale.FCString()<br>
            >     dynCat:GetName(catName)<br>
            ><br>
            >     -- save it anew<br>
            >     dynCat:SaveNew()<br>
            ><br>
            >      -- shows tha a new item number<br>
            >     -- was generated (65535 ??? looks like an error...)<br>
            >     print(dynCat:GetItemNo())<br>
            > end<br>
            > ``<br>
            ><br>
            > But even though the category is assigned a new number
            (is 65535 an<br>
            > indicator for an error here? look strange), no new
            category was created.<br>
            > And if the ItemNo of the original category was changed,
            a second<br>
            > run-through shouldn't work, since Load(2) shouldn't
            find anything at that<br>
            > position... but it does...<br>
            ><br>
            > I am very confused... any hints and/or help would be
            much appreciated!<br>
            > Thanks!<br>
            ><br>
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