From: ericzen (ericzen@ez-net.com)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 17:38:06 EST
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:31, Dr William Bland wrote:
> Hello,
> If I understand correctly, Abiword represents a document by
> a doubly-linked list of objects (strings, images, etc.) where the format
> parameters (e.g. boldness, font size, etc.) are constant over a single
> object in the list.
>
> I am trying to
> 1. Find the list of objects that corresponds to the
> document in the currently selected frame.
> 2. Step through it, from the first object to the last.
> Unfortunately I'm not getting very far. Could someone post a code
> snippet if this is just a few lines (I'm sure it must be simple to those
> who know how!) or if it's not so simple some hints would be great.
On 2002.10.29 13:01 Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> The only way I know how to do this *easily* is via writing an exporter.
> When you save the document, you necessarily iterate over the objects in
> the current document in a sequential manner.
>
> You could write a shim/dummy exporter which doesn't write anything to
> disk (serializing the object list, as it were), but instead did some
> other operation based on the object list that's being enumerated.
>
> Barring that, another good start would be to look at how these objects
> get enumerated in the piece-table code when being exported. Clearly we
> already have code for iterating over all of the objects in the document.
> You might be able to steal or use it.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
On nowish I wrote:
Well, while whomever is going to go at it, try incorporating this unique RFE (voted #4) most requested, something your editor would know:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2365
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