[JWplugins] JW Lua - preview

[Jari Williamsson]

On 2013-07-30 23:10, KennethKen at aol.com wrote:

> Sets the measure width of the select region to 110% of its current  value?

Correct.

> When you say "so you can write your own plug-ins in Finale" who is the
> "you" you are referring to? Will I, someone with no programming experience, be
> able to write a plugin by selecting tasks from a list and having your
> Framework  fill in the coding details? Or is this still a job for people who
> speak that  language?

It will not create the code for you, but other than myself will be able 
to write Finale plug-ins, since I can now expose the PDK Framework to a 
script language. For anyone experienced with any high-level language 
such as script languages in applications, it should be quite easy. (BTW, 
when the script language is fully implemented, it could be used to write 
a "script Wizard" that creates its own scripts, although such a task 
would require programming experience.)

The problem right now is that since the Finale PDK is not publicly 
available, only I can use my PDK Framework even when I have it 
documented and release it as open source. This script implementation 
will change that.

Also, I have seen a increasing need to provide a good solution for 
really "quick hacks". And since Lua is such an efficient engine, I might 
base some of my future larger plug-ins on Lua scripting.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson