Sorry in advance if I’m not phrasing this question correctly. I know nothing about InDesign scripting, but this would solve a workflow problem I’m having at my company, so I would appreciate any and all help.
I want to find all strings in an InDesign file that are between angle brackets (i.e. <variable>) and export that out into a list. Ideally this list would be a separate document but if it can just be dumped into a text frame or something that’s fine.
Any ideas on how to do this? Thank you in advance for any and all help.
Here is something simple:
app.findGrepPreferences=NothingEnum.NOTHING; //to reset the Grep search
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '<[^<]+?>'; //the word(s) you are searching
var fnd = app.activeDocument.findGrep (); //execute search
var temp_str = ''; //initialize an empty string
for (var i = 0; i < fnd.length; i++) { //loop through results and store the results
temp_str += fnd[i].contents.toString() + '\r'; // add next found item text to string
}
var new_doc = app.documents.add (); //create a new document
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.POINTS; //set measurement units to points
var text_frame = new_doc.pages[0].textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[0,0,100,100]});// create a new text frame on the first page
text_frame.contents = temp_str; //output your text to the text frame in the new document
For more data see here.
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So this works but it takes 15 seconds for a spreadsheet with 60 items.
function addToModel(name,birth,age){
var newRecord = app.models.ImportData.newRecord();
newRecord['PRESIDENT'] = name;
newRecord['BIRTH_PLACE'] = birth;
newRecord['AGE_ELECTED'] = age;
app.saveRecords([newRecord]);
}
function getSpreadsheet(){
var sh = SpreadsheetApp.openById("zzz");
var ss = sh.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
var data = ss.getDataRange().getValues();
THIS WAS WAY ONE, TAKES 15 SECONDS
for (var i=1; i<data.length;i++)
{
addToModel(data[i][1],data[i][2],data[i][3].toString());
}//for loop
}
but I noticed that the command is saveRecordS not saveRecord and with anything in google apps script, the fewer calls the better, so I tried this but it doesn't work
//SAME SPREADSHEET INFO
var result = [];
for (var i=0; i<data.length;i++)
{
var newRecord = app.models.ImportData.newRecord();
newRecord['PRESIDENT'] = data[i][1];
newRecord['BIRTH_PLACE'] = data[i][2];
newRecord['AGE_ELECTED'] = data[i][3].toString();
result.push(newRecord);
}//for loop
app.saveRecords([result]);
Expected result: new records in my table, much faster than the first version. Actual result: "Cannot read property "key" from undefined" which is triggered from the last line (saveRecords). I tried both app.saveRecords(result) and ([result]), same problem both times.
Note: this example is from an appmaker university tutorial that no longer works because of the changes for appmaker v2.
I think that it's model.newRecord() takes time for each new item created, while time on app.saveRecords() is ignorable.
Could you please confirm that you are EU user? as we EU user are facing same issue (link) due to the server location, if it is the case, please help star that issue and give more info to help Google solve that issue. Thanks.
I'm new to Java scripting and Google Apps Scripts so i am sorry if this has already been answered. I was not able to find what i was looking for over the last few months of working on this project.
I am working on a variant of the scripts here:
Delete row in Google Sheets if certain "word" is found in cell
AND
Google Sheet Script - Find Value in Col and Delete Row
I want to create a button, or menu, that will allow someone to enter specific data, and have each row in the spreadsheet containing that data deleted.
I have a test sheet here that illustrates the data i'm working with, formulas i'm using, and has the beginning of the script attached to it:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e2ILQYf8MJD3mrmUeFQyET6lOLYEb-4coDTd52QBWtU/edit?usp=sharing
The first 4 sheets are pulling data from the "Form Responses 1" sheet via a formula in cell A:3 in each sheet so the data would only need to be deleted from the "Form Responses 1" sheet to clear it from the rest of the sheets.
I tried working this in but i do not think i am on the right track.
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/dialogs
I also posted this on Google Docs Help Forum 60 days ago, but have not received any responses.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
There's a few steps. For usability of UI this takes a little longer code. In concise form:
The user activates a dialog and enters a string.
Rows w/ the string are deleted (with error handling and confirmation)
(Hopefully this gets you started and you can tailor it to your needs)
Function that initiates the menu:
function onOpen(){
SpreadsheetApp.getUi()
.createMenu('My Menu')
.addItem('Delete Data', 'deleteFunction')
.addToUi();
}
The main workhorse:
function deleteFunction(){
//declarations
var sheetName = "Form Responses 1";
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(sheetName);
var dataRange = sheet.getDataRange();
var numRows = dataRange.getNumRows();
var values = dataRange.getValues();
var delete_string = getUIstring();//open initial UI, save value
if (delete_string.length < 3) return shortStringError()//UI to protect your document from an accidental entry of a very short string.
//removing the rows (start with i=2, so don't delete header row.)
var rowsDeleted = 0;
for (var i = 2; i <= numRows; i++){
var rowValues = values[i-1].toString();//your sheet has various data types, script can be improved here to allow deleting dates, ect.
if (rowValues.indexOf(delete_string) > -1){
sheet.deleteRow(i - rowsDeleted);//keeps loop and sheet in sync
rowsDeleted++;
}
}
postUIconfirm(rowsDeleted);//Open confirmation UI
}
Isolated UI functions to help make above function more concise:
function getUIstring(){
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
var response = ui.prompt("Enter the target data element for deletion")
return response.getResponseText()
}
function postUIconfirm(rowsDeleted){
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
ui.alert("Operation complete. There were "+rowsDeleted+" rows deleted.")
}
function shortStringError(){
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
ui.alert("The string is too short. Enter a longer string to prevent unexpected deletion")
}
I'll just show a way to delete the cell value if it matches your search criteria. It's up to you to connect it to buttons ,etc.
You'll loop through a Sheet Range. When you find the word match, delete it using clearContent()
function deleteSpecificData() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
var range = sheet.getRange("Sheet1!A1:C4");
var values = range.getValues();
var numArray = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
var deleteItem = "Garen";
Logger.log(range);
for(var i=0; i< values.length; i++){
for(var j=0; j<values[i].length; j++){
if(values[i][j] == deleteItem){
var row = numArray[i];
var col = numArray[j];
var range = sheet.getRange(row,col).clearContent();
}
}
}
}
Before:
After:
I feel really dumb for having to post this, but I've been trying to achieve this for an entire week now and I'm getting nowhere!
I'm trying to create a highscore board. Top 10 scores, saved to an INI file. I have searched every single thing on the entire internet ever. I just do not get it.
So what I have tried is this...
I have a "load_room" setup. When this room loads, it runs this code:
ini_open('score.ini')
ini_write_real("Save","highscore_value(1)",highscore_value(1));
ini_write_string("Save","highscore_name(1)",highscore_name(1));
ini_close();
room_goto(room0);
Then when my character dies:
myName = get_string("Enter your name for the highscore list: ","Player1"); //if they enter nothing, "Player1" will get put on the list
highscore_add(myName,score);
ini_open('score.ini')
value1=ini_write_real("Save","highscore_value(1)",0);
name1=ini_write_string("Save","highscore_name(1)","n/a");
ini_close();
highscore_clear();
highscore_add(myName,score);
score = 0;
game_restart();
I'm not worried about including the code to display the scores as I'm checking the score.ini that the game creates for the real values added.
With this, I seem to be able to save ONE score, and that's all. I need to save 10. Again, I'm sorry for asking the same age-old question, but I'm really in need of help and hoping someone out there can assist!
Thanks so much,
Lee.
Why you use save in load_room instead load?
Why you clear the table after die?
You need to use loop for save each result.
For example, loading:
highscore_clear();
ini_open("score.ini");
for (var i=1; i<=10; i++)
{
var name = ini_read_string("Save", "name" + string(i), "");
var value = ini_read_real("Save", "value" + string(i), 0);
if value != 0
highscore_add(name, value);
}
ini_close();
room_goto(room0);
Die:
myName = get_string("Enter your name for the highscore list: ","Player1");
highscore_add(myName, score);
ini_open("score.ini");
for (var i=1; i<=10; i++)
{
ini_write_string("Save", "name" + string(i), highscore_name(i));
ini_write_string("Save", "value" + string(i), string(highscore_value(i)));
}
ini_close();
score = 0;
game_restart();
And few more things...
score = 0;
You need do it when game starts, so here it is unnecessary.
get_string("Enter your name for the highscore list: ","Player1");
Did you read note in help?
NOTE: THIS FUNCTION IS FOR DEBUG USE ONLY. Should you require this functionality in your final game, please use get_string_async.
I used ini_write_string(..., ..., string(...)); instead ini_write_real() because second case will save something like 1000.000000000, and first case will save just 1000.
i have a problem where i want to remove the last character from a textfield (including linebreaks) that has multiple textformats without removing the formats.
so far i have:
textfield.replaceText(textField.length-1,textField.length-1,'');
i guess this doesn't remove linebreaks, and is very slow, seems to destroy my textformats.
or:
textfield.text = textfield.text.slice(0,-1);
this is faster but removes all textformats as well.
It is a bit tedious, but you can use the htmlText-property of TextField, even though you are not formatting your text with StyleSheets: Flash will transform all your formatting information into HTML text internally, so even though you set textField.text, you can still get xml formatted text to work with:
textField.text = "A test.";
trace (textField.htmlText);
will actually return:
<P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Times Roman" SIZE="12" COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">A test.</FONT></P>
Text will always appear within <FONT> tags reflecting the changes you made using setTextFormat(). You can, therefore, iterate over the XML contained in this line, and remove only the last character in the last TextNode:
private function removeLastCharacter (textField:TextField) : void {
var xml:XML = new XML (textField.htmlText);
for ( var i : int = xml.children().length()-1; i >= 0; i-- ){
var node:XML = xml.children()[i];
if ( node.name() == "FONT") {
var tx:String = node.text()[0].toString();
node.setChildren (tx.substr (0, tx.length-1));
break;
}
}
textField.htmlText = xml;
trace (textField.text); // In the above example, output will be: "A test";
}
I hope I understand your problem correctly. If you keep your formatting in htmlText, I have one possible solution:
The idea is to keep the formatted text in an XML format, and modify the XML. XML will keep your formatting intact, you don't have to do string aerobatics to maintain them. The downsides are of course having to keep the formatting XML valid, and the extra variable.
Here's an example:
var tf:TextField = new TextField();
var t:XML = new XML("<html><p>lalala</p><font color='#ff0000'> lol</font></html>");
tf.htmlText = t.toXMLString();
t.font[0] = t.font[0].text().slice(0, -1);
tf.htmlText = t.toXMLString();
addChild(tf);
Hello everyone this is my little Frankenstein code, don't make fun of it, it works!
So you would pass in the table name and a data as an Associative array which are objects.
I'm pretty sure this is not good code as I was and still am learning ActionScript. So what can I change or how would you guys make it better?
public function save(table:String,data:Object):void
{
var conn:SQLConnection = new SQLConnection();
var folder:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory;
var dbFile:File = folder.resolvePath("task.db");
conn.open(dbFile);
var stat:SQLStatement=new SQLStatement();
stat.sqlConnection=conn;
//make fields and values
var fields:String="";
var values:String="";
for(var sRole:String in data)
{
fields=fields+sRole+",:";
stat.parameters[":"+sRole]=data[sRole];
}
//trim off white space
var s:String=new String(fields);
var cleanString:String=s.slice( 0, -2 );
//over here we add : infront of the values I forget why
var find:RegExp=/:/g;
var mymyField:String=new String(cleanString.replace(find,""));
cleanString=":"+cleanString;
var SQLFields:String=mymyField;
var SQLValues:String=cleanString;
stat.text="INSERT INTO "+table+" ("+SQLFields+")VALUES("+SQLValues+")";
stat.execute();
}
The part where you build your query is quite a horror, to be honest. Half the code removes junk you added just a few lines before. This makes it hard to read and understand. Which is a sign of poor code quality. The following is far shorter and simpler:
//make fields and values
var fields:Array = [];
for(var field:String in data) {
fields.push(field);
stat.parameters[":"+field]=data[fieldName];
}
var sqlFields:String = fields.join(",");
var sqlValues:String = ":"+fields.join(",:");
stat.text="INSERT INTO "+table+" ("+sqlFields+")VALUES("+sqlValues+")";
stat.execute();
Someone once told me that a stupid idea that works isn't stupid. As programmer's our first goal is (often) to solve business issues; and as long as our code does that then we are successful. You don't need to apologize for code that works.
In terms of what I would do to change your snippet; I might just encapsulate it a bit more. Can the folder, dbFile, and db file name (task.db) be added either as properties to your class or arguments to the method?
Can you separate out the creation of the SQL Statement from the connection handling from your data parsing?
Some remarks,
As said before you can factorise out all the db connection so you can reuse the function without rewriting it if you need to change the db name.
Don't use new String() you can avoid it
it's not usefull to clean white space between your field :a, :b is the same as :a,:b
Some convention don't begin your local var name with an uppercase, and it's not usefull to reassign them to another var
If i don't get wrong after your //make fields and values can be rewritten for example as :
//make fields and values
var fields:String = "";
var values:String = "";
var fieldSeparator:String = "";
for(var sRole:String in data)
{
fields += fieldSeparator + sRole;
var paramName:String = ":" + sRole;
values += fieldSeparator + paramName;
stat.parameters[paramName] = data[sRole];
fieldSeparator = ",";
}
stat.text = "INSERT INTO " + table +" (" + fields + ") VALUES (" + values + ")";
stat.execute();