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"Please note that Finale does not allow plug-ins to create or delete
category definitions."<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 11.05.2016 um 13:56 schrieb Robert
Wildling:<br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Hi,</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I
am looking for a way to create a new Expression Category withe
the name of "unused" (the intention is to move all unused
textExprDefs and ShaeexprDefs to that category).</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Starting
out, I thought, this can only be done via selecting a specific
category and saving it using "SaveAs" and a new "ItemNo", like
this:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><span
style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">``[lua]</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif" color="#444444">local dynCat =
finale.FCCategoryDef()</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif" color="#444444">if dynCat:Load(2) then</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif" color="#444444"> -- get the category name</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"> dynCat: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"> -- save it anew</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif" color="#444444"> dynCat:SaveNew()</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""> <span
style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">--
shows tha a new item number</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><span
style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
</span><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#444444">--
was generated (65535 ??? looks like an error...)</font><span
style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif" color="#444444"> print(dynCat:GetItemNo()) </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">``</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="verdana,
sans-serif" color="#444444">But even though the category is
assigned a new number (is 65535 an indicator for an error
here? look strange), no new category was created. And if the
ItemNo of the original category was changed, a second
run-through shouldn't work, since Load(2) shouldn't find
anything at that position... but it does...</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">I
am very confused... any hints and/or help would be much
appreciated!</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Thanks!</div>
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