Le 09/06/2020 à 15:40, Gregory Pittman a écrit :
Personally, I prefer that there is a generic script out there that can be used by a wide variety of users for a variety of purposes. If I wanted to streamline the operation, then I would make another version, which, for example, might only run in one language and have all the settings hard-coded rather than using dialogs, then call it autotypo_fr.py
I understand your POV but it's a chance that scribus user dont have to tweak a script to access to efficient features that fit their need : thanks to Preferences, they dont have to express all of their choices each time they need a feature... and to do so they dont need to edit a script, which is a geek thing.
« In an ideal world, scribus scripts would provide the same ease of GUI preferencing as scribus does. » (But I know there is only part of the ideal world in the real world.)
The other thing I have done at times is to combine a series of dialogs asking for parameters into a single dialog, with defaults. The default for autotypo could be fr 1 O and then the script uses the python split function to break this up for 3 responses.
That's a quick way to set up a lot of parameters through a dialog. A bit the same as passing parameters to a function. Again a bit geeky.
If it's a script I use frequently, it can be beneficial to streamline it. On the other hand, if it's something I haven't used in a while, I like the reminders for what the defaults are as I go through. For scripts like this, Undo-ing the effects of the script is rather tedious, since there will likely be quite a number of Undos to do.
True. As for now, the autotypo can be both. It's a transformer. Answering the 5 dialogs to set the parameters each time is tedious because its allways the same for me and i use this script a lot now it exists ! So i added a new variable do_ask that defaults to True in the distributed script. https://github.com/JLuc/autotypo/blob/master/autotypo.py#L42 When do_ask, each dialog pops and asks for a choice. But do_ask can be manualy edited to False, which results in the script not asking but using the defaults values. That still feels a bit of a hack, but it fits perfectly my needs and it makes it easier, at least for some users, to use the script more efficiently. JL
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