On Mon, 4 May 2015 05:03:48 -0700 (PDT) john lunzer <lun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought Leo might already have a way to do this which is why I > asked. > > I guess I'm still confused on the "get them as usual" part. I'm not sure Edward's answer addressed your question - I think the valuespace plugin might, but I didn't write it and always have to read the docs. three times to work out what it actually does do ;-) It may not do what you want, but it certainly does involve defining things in one part of an outline and using them in calculation elsewhere in the outline, so it may do what you want or just need a very thin wrapper layer on top to do what you want. Cheers -Terry > It's not clear to me how I would use an @data node in an @settings > node and have it be accessible/read via some named reference to it in > any arbitrary node and checked if it changed when saving? > > Specifically what I'm trying to do is say have a node: > > Headline: > @data myString1 > Body: > This is Common Data > > Then in a child of an @clean myfile.txt node be able to reference > "myString1" by name somehow and be replaced by "This is Common Data" > when the file is written out. > > On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 7:27:25 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:14 AM, john lunzer <lun...@gmail.com > > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Could Leo have something like @int/@bool/@string/etc simple > > settings types > >> but applicable to any node in an outline? > >> > > > > ​Anything is possible, but I won't do this. Settings are complex > > and capable enough as it is. > > > > Put common data in settings in myLeoSettings.leo or in the > > local .leo file and get them as usual. > > > > In particular, @data nodes can hold any data you want. > > c.config.getData has the following signature: > > > > def getData (self,setting,strip_comments=True,strip_data=True): > > > > You may want to set the two keyword args to False. > > > > Finally, your scripts communicate through > > g.app.permanentScriptDict​. This dict is not cleared after a script > > executes. Keys and values are anything you want. This is one > > alternative to using c.config.set/get. > > > > HTH. > > > > Edward > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
