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   Posted 1/27/2016 11:49 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Charles Lawrence said...
Unfortunately, you cannot just copy the contents of a pre-F2012 Finalescript file and paste it into a post F2011 Finalescript file. You must re-enter it. Ever since F2012, Finalescript is no longer a text file, but an XML file. The copy/paste will not form the underlying XML correctly. Instead of each source line being formed into its own destination line, all the source lines are concatenated into one long string for the destination. Finalescript cannot handle this. If you are proficient with editing XML, you can fix the issue without re-entering the source in a new script file, but it is usually easier to just re-enter it.

I have fixed the malformed XML in the attached XML. It ran to completion when I tried it. Download it and place it in the proper F2014.5 directory located here: "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MakeMusic\Finale 2014.5\Finalescript".

Hope this helps.


Ok. Thanks! Good info to know. I will try your script later. Thanks for converting it for me! Did Makemusic let everyone know this in the new help file? If they did, I never saw it.


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   Posted 1/27/2016 11:16 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thank you, Charles. Windows isn't offering a way to copy the file. What am I doing wrong? Thanks again.


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   Posted 1/27/2016 10:37 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

gogreen,

Your script took longer to debug.  Some of the commands are different in F2014.5.

Attached is the XML.  Place it in the proper directory here: "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MakeMusic\Finale 2014.5\Finalescript". 



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   Posted 1/27/2016 10:01 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
For what David is trying to do, I find Jari's JW Change plugin does a much better job. It does most if not all of what is needed. You can then memorize all the steps into one item after doing them all one at a time initially.

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   Posted 1/27/2016 9:23 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm having a similar problem with Finale 2014.5. I routinely use a script to restore my background color, which hasn't kept my preference since about Finale 2007 and still doesn't in Finale 2015.5. In Finale 2011, I used this script:

Menu item “program options”
list “palettes and backgrounds”
click radio “solid color” near “Manuscript Texture”
click OK

In Finale 2014, I used this one:

menu item “Preferences”
highlight “Palettes and Backgrounds”
click “Palettes and Background”
click radio “solid color” near “Manuscript Texture”
button ok

The 2014 script that worked in Finale 2014 no longer works in Finale 2014.5. It hangs after Preferences appear. I've tried different syntax changes, but I can't get this to work again. Any suggestions?


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   Posted 1/27/2016 8:59 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Unfortunately, you cannot just copy the contents of a pre-F2012 Finalescript file and paste it into a post F2011 Finalescript file.  You must re-enter it.  Ever since F2012, Finalescript is no longer a text file, but an XML file.  The copy/paste will not form the underlying XML correctly.  Instead of each source line being formed into its own destination line, all the source lines are concatenated into one long string for the destination.  Finalescript cannot handle this.  If you are proficient with editing XML, you can fix the issue without re-entering the source in a new script file, but it is usually easier to just re-enter it.

I have fixed the malformed XML in the attached XML.  It ran to completion when I tried it.  Download it and place it in the proper F2014.5 directory located here: "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MakeMusic\Finale 2014.5\Finalescript". 

Hope this helps.

 



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   Posted 1/27/2016 8:46 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Zuill said...
Which commands?

Zuill
P.S.: I stopped using Finalescript long ago as it was very unstable and caused a lot of crashing of Finale. However, since they overhauled it (I believe), I think it is more stable. I tend to use Jari's Lua scripts, even though I have no idea how to program them. I have figured out how to modify others' programs, though, for my use. With Finalescript, I often found that some operations would hang up. I tried to add delay commands to give Finale extra time to process the commands, but realized that every time I ran a script, it would lock up in a different place. To me, that is too finicky. It was easier to do things manually, rather than fuss with scripts.


OK. Thanks for the info. I thought I was doing something wrong. It was hanging on me too even after I would copy a command directly from the help file.

Here is the last version of the script I did before I gave up.

menu item "copy"
Select Staff 13
menu item "paste"
move layer 1 to layer 4
plug-in "single pitch"
type "G5"
Press "OK"
menu item "notesize"
type "75"
Press "OK"
menu item "Utilities/Stem direction/Up"
menu item "Utilities/Change/Ties"
click "tie direction"
Select radio button "over"
Press "OK"
plug-in "move rests"
near "move rests" type 7
Press "OK"

All I want to do be able to copy the rhythm of any staff (whoever has the lead line) to a staff not being used in the score (an extra staff below the drum part) and then place the rhythms in layer 4. Then, I will show current layer only and copy that into layer 4 of the drum part. I want to be able to give the drummer a simplified part with just rhythm hits but still get proper playback of the notes I have entered into the drum part. I go tit to work in 2010 when I was using Windows 7. Now I have 2015.5 and Windows 10 and it doesn't work anymore.

Thanks for your help with this. I really wish Finale had a plug-in to do this.


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   Posted 1/26/2016 11:56 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Which commands?

Zuill

P.S.: I stopped using Finalescript long ago as it was very unstable and caused a lot of crashing of Finale. However, since they overhauled it (I believe), I think it is more stable. I tend to use Jari's Lua scripts, even though I have no idea how to program them. I have figured out how to modify others' programs, though, for my use. With Finalescript, I often found that some operations would hang up. I tried to add delay commands to give Finale extra time to process the commands, but realized that every time I ran a script, it would lock up in a different place. To me, that is too finicky. It was easier to do things manually, rather than fuss with scripts.


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   Posted 1/26/2016 11:26 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I put a message in the Finale scripts forum but I am not sure how often people check that so I am putting a message here too. Has anyone else had problems getting some of the commands to work in 2014.5?

I used to be able to get scripts to work when I was using Windows 7 and Finale 2010. Has something changed that has not been updated in the help file?


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