Chantal on scribus-request at lists.scribus.info wrote:
> Hi, I am writing a script that loops through textboxes in a document and
> resizes them until the frame fits.
Your script was not finished as it just attempted to add a single value
to the height of the text frames.
I cleaned up and simplified the logic and here is a working version of
your first draft for you to study and
continue to develop toward your goal. (You will probably want to use a
while-loop testing OverFlowChar.)
For debugging, you cannot use print statements (you won't see them in
Scribus), so it might be more useful to
insert scribus.messageBox() commands to see intermediate variables, etc.
Below, the script just adds 10 to the height (1,000 was way too big) and
I have verified that
the script runs and performs as expected in Scribus 1.3.5svn.
# ---------------------------------------------------#
# check of het script vanuit scribus wordt gestart #
#----------------------------------------------------#
import sys
try:
import scribus
except ImportError:
print "This script only works from within Scribus"
sys.exit(1)
pagenum = scribus.pageCount() # find out how many
pages we have
page = 1 # initialize at first
page
InitialAddition=10 # define how much to
add to text frames
while (page <= pagenum):
scribus.gotoPage(page) # move to the current
page
ItemsOnpage = scribus.getPageItems() # how many items are on
this page
for CurrentItem in ItemsOnpage: # loop all items
CurrentItemType=CurrentItem[1]
if CurrentItemType == 4: # type 4 is text frame.
We only bother with them.
CurrentItemName = CurrentItem[0] # get this frame's name
so we can manipulate it
OverflowChar = scribus.textOverflows(CurrentItemName)
if OverflowChar > 0:
(CurrentItemwidth, CurrentItemheight) =
scribus.getSize(CurrentItemName) # get width, height
scribus.sizeObject(CurrentItemwidth,CurrentItemheight+InitialAddition,CurrentItemName)
# increase height
page += 1 # increment to the next page (good programmers do this at
the END of while loops)
