On Thu, Mar 4, 2021, at 06:32, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 3/3/21 8:38 PM, Matt Miller wrote:
> > I've attached a test case that seems to show that getAllText() is sometimes
> > succeeding and sometimes failing. When it fails it doesn't throw an error,
> > but it just retrieves a string of length 1, instead of retrieving the
> > actual text of the chain. I see this on 1.5.6.1 and 1.5.7.svn, in both
> > Linux and Windows.
> >
> > To run the test open the .sla and from the script menu execute
> > chapter_heading_style.py. The text frame name "debug" at the very top will
> > contain the word "Error" if the getAllText() call in the script fails.
> > What I see is that it works fine the first time, then it fails on every
> > subsequent try, until I alter something on the document. For example, if I
> > grab and move the "debug" text frame a bit then getAllText() will succeed
> > once, and then fail repeatedly again. Saving and reopening the document
> > also causes the script to work again the first time.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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> >
> > Matt Miller
> > mailto:[email protected]
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> Hi Matt,
>
> I have a hard time trying to figure out what you're trying to do with
> this script. Somewhere in your Scribus installation there should be a
> folder named samples.
> On my Linux (Fedora), it's in /usr/share/scribus. Inside samples is a
> script named ExtractText.py, which uses getAllText() to collect all the
> text from a document and save it in a text file. This still works in
> 1.5.x.
Yes, I verified this works fine for me. Thanks.
Digging into my code more I see that I was calling selectText() to select the
first character of the paragraph I wanted to apply a custom paragraph style to,
but then I was not deselecting the text. A subsequent call to getAllText()
would then return only the single character of that selected text. To address
this I've adopted a standard in my code of always calling selectText (0, 0,
<text_frame>) right after making any call that relies on certain text being
selected.
So, this problem is solved.
>
> Greg
>
>
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