Re: How to paste the content of a document with pyabiword

Hi Gonzalo,

I hope to be able to answer this questions within 2 days. Still busy
at the moment.

Best Regards,

Martin

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo@laptop.org> wrote:
>
> I am trying to solve a ticket from the Write activity:
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1925
>
> I tried different ideas but without success:
>
> 1) Create a temp_canvas and use the clipboard:
>
>                        temp_canvas = abiword.Canvas()
>                        if mime_type in ['text/plain', 'text/csv'] or \
>                                'text/plain' in mime_parents:
>                            temp_canvas.load_file('file://' + file_path,
>                                    'text/plain')
>                        else:
>                            temp_canvas.load_file('file://' + file_path, '')
>                        text =
> temp_canvas.get_content(extension_or_mimetype='.txt')
>                        logging.error('test = %s' % text)
>                        temp_canvas.select_all()
>                        temp_canvas.copy()
>                        self._abiword_canvas.paste()
>
> The text is displayed in the log, but no text is pasted in the main canvas.
>
> 2) get content and insert it
>
> If I do
>                        data =
> temp_canvas.get_content(extension_or_mimetype='.abw')
>                        self._abiword_canvas.insert_data(data)
>
> Insert the text of the abiword file (the xml file
>
> I can copy only the text, without formating doing:
>
>                        text =
> temp_canvas.get_content(extension_or_mimetype='.txt')
>                        self._abiword_canvas.insert_data(text)
>
> There are any way to copy all the content form a file in the opened
> file with format?
> Thanks!
>
> Gonzalo
>
Received on Mon Nov 8 03:05:56 2010