On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 06:31:35PM +0000, Ananga ---- Antony Brand wrote: > I am working at the console on Scribus 1.3.2 on Win XP and I'm starting to > get the hang of things. Just a few questions that I'm hoping someone here > will be able to answer. > > What is the difference between createPolygon and createPolyLine ? > > > I have been using the following command and it seems to work okay. > createPolygon( [ 0,0, 4,0, 4*(1.412/2) , -4*1.412 ] , > "quad") > > How do I modify the command to: > 1 change the colour fill shade to 0% > 2 change the opacity to 0% > 3 change the line width to 4pt > 4 change the line edges and endings to round join and round cap > respectively
Use subsequent calls to the appropriate API functions (as shown in the documentation) to alter the attributes. For example, setLineWidth(newwidth, "objectname") . See: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=scripterapi-setobjprop , help(setLineWidth) in the Python interpreter, or Scribus's on-line help. > Is it possible to use a script to define these as a style as I have a lot of > polygons/lines to create? Not currently - there's no exposure of line styles for scripting. You can just define a function to apply the desired attributes though. The function can take the object name as a parameter, and pass that to the calls, or can just work on the current selection, depending on how you prefer to do it. > The script always creates the polygon using the top left corner of the page > as the origing even if I manually reset the origin to the middle of the > page. Is there a way of creating the object with respect to the actual > origin on the page chosen by the user? I don't think so. That'd make the effect of a script dependent on GUI settings, something I think is undesirable. If that was supported, it'd need to be accompanied by a call letting a script save and restore the origin point so it could guarantee reproducable runs. > When I make the jump to making script files, what does the first line need > to be? > #!/usr/bin/env python seems to apply for Linux users but not for PC, what > would be the equivalent PC command or is that line not strictly necessary. You can not run a Scribus script directly from the shell by double-clicking etc. It must be run in-process by Scribus via the Script menu. An initial line like: #!/usr/bin/env python will be recognised by text editors for syntax highlighting purposes and is a hint to readers that the code is Python, but for Scribus scripts is otherwise unnecessary. You should however be sure to include a -*-coding-*- line (as should be described in the documentation). -- Craig Ringer GPG Key Fingerprint: AF1C ABFE 7E64 E9C8 FC27 C16E D3CE CDC0 0E93 380D
