Recenty I am using Aspose Word to generating some reports, and there is a small problem.
Currently I am using DocumentBuilder and a 2-column table to make up the footer, System name at first column align to left while page number at second column align to right.
Everything is fine, yet I do not want the footer looks so dull as plain text, so I would like to add some style to the footer.
I would like to apply some built-in template of footer, say Alphabet as shown below, is it possible to do so by using Aspose Word?
If you have MS Word 2013 installed on your machine, you'll most likely find a Word document 'Built-In Building Blocks.dotx' at the following location:
C:\Users\Awais\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\1033\15\Built-In Building Blocks.dotx
The predefined built-in building blocks entries that ship with Word are stored in above template document. Using Aspose.Words, you can extract any building block from it and paste inside another Word document.
GlossaryDocument class in Aspose.Words represents such Building Blocks. Please try using the following code:
Document docBuildingBlocks = new Document(MyDir + #"Building Blocks.dotx");
Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.MoveToHeaderFooter(HeaderFooterType.FooterPrimary);
GlossaryDocument glossaryDocument = docBuildingBlocks.GlossaryDocument;
foreach (BuildingBlock buildingBlock in glossaryDocument.BuildingBlocks)
{
if (buildingBlock.Gallery.ToString().StartsWith("Footer") &&
buildingBlock.Name.Equals("ViewMaster (Vertical)"))
{
Section sec = (Section)buildingBlock.FirstChild;
foreach (Node node in sec.Body.ChildNodes)
{
HeaderFooter hf = doc.FirstSection.HeadersFooters[HeaderFooterType.FooterPrimary];
hf.AppendChild(doc.ImportNode(node, true));
}
}
}
doc.Save(MyDir + #"15.6.0.docx");
Hope, this helps.
I work with Aspose as Developer Evangelist.
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I have 100+ *.docx files created with Microsoft Word on a Windows machine that I would like to use with LibreOffice Writer.
Unfortunately, somehow all the tables have been squished in Writer as shown:
I've tried to fix this by:
Selecting the entire table (ctrl-a, ctrl-a)
Right-click the table
Go to size
Click optimal column width
This indeed gives me the desired result:
What I've tried so far
failed approach 1
I've created the following macro that does the formatting for a single table:
REM ***** BASIC *****
sub setTableColumns
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem define variables
dim document as object
dim dispatcher as object
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem get access to the document
document = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:SelectAll", "", 0, Array())
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:SelectAll", "", 0, Array())
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:SetOptimalColumnWidth", "", 0, Array())
end sub
I've assigned a keyboard shortcut to this macro such that I can reformat a single table by:
Clicking on the table of interest.
Running the shortcut.
This is an improvement, but it still requires a lot of manual work.
failed approach 2
I've also tinkered with the examples given in this different SO question.
I've managed to set the relative width of all tables to 100% by changing this property of all my tables:
https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/text/TextTable.html#RelativeWidth
I did this by using the following macro (snippet):
tables = ThisComponent.TextTables
for tid = 0 to tables.count - 1
table = tables(tid)
table.RelativeWidth = 100
next
This does widen all the tables, however the format is not desirable.
Question
Is there a way to apply the optimal column width setting to all tables in a file?
It would be awesome if I could apply it to all tables in multiple docx files at once.
However, it would already make me very happy if I could automatically format all tables in a single docx file.
The code needs to loop through all tables in the document, select each one and then optimize the selected table.
The following Basic code from Andrew Pitonyak's macro document section 7.2.1 shows how to select a table.
ThisComponent.getCurrentController().select(oTable)
Here is some python code from a project of mine.
cellsRange = table.getCellRangeByPosition(
0, 0, endCol, numRows - 1)
controller.select(cellsRange)
dispatcher.executeDispatch(
frame, ".uno:SetOptimalColumnWidth", "", 0, ())
There are also ways to loop through a set of documents, so the code can open, optimize, save and close each document. The most difficult part is closing properly without a crash, as closing events can sometimes interrupt each other.
If this is a problem, you may find it easier to open, save and close each by hand, running the macro to optimize all tables in the currently open document. It's also not too hard to loop through all open documents, if you find it more convenient to open multiple files at the same time.
So what I currently want to do is pretty much implement rofi in awesome.
The reason I want to do this and I don't just use rofi is because I want to learn how to 'auto-generate' widgets in awesome.
This will come in handy later when I'll implement things like network widgets that when clicked, shows you a panel, shows you the wifi hotspots available as rows, etc etc. So it's just for me to learn how awesome works better. But also, I want a program launcher.
And also, before someone suggests it, I already know that there's a built-in launcher in awesome, and I also know that there's this. This is not what I'm looking for. I want to have the same thing thing rofi and dmenu have: I want to have suggestions pop up when you press keys. and I want to be able to click on the suggestions, etc.
What I want is something like this: uhhhh
So what I'm having problems is this: how do I auto-generate the rows? I want to be able to specify in only one place how many rows I want, and have awesome do the rest.
I've looked through Elv's github and I found radical and even though what he made is a menu system, I thought that I could use some of his code to do what I want. But I can't for the love of god figure out how it works. No offense to him, but it's not all too well docummented, even for users, and for actually explaining how the code works there's no docummentation.
So My question is: How can I make this work? How would I go about making the widgets that act as the rows automatically?
TL;DR:
i want to write a program launcher like rofi in awesome
i want to be able to specify only in one place the number of rows
therefore, (((I think))) I need to automatically generate widgets as rows somehow, how can I do it?
EDIT:
What I want is to be able to create the rows of my launcher automatically. I know I can hardcode the rows myself, have each row have a different id and then I can write a function that on each keypress, will update each widget with the most relevant matches. So it would be something like (not tested at all):
local wibox = require("wibox")
local awful = require("awful")
local num_rows = 10
local row_height = 40
-- set the height of the background in accordance to how many rows there are,
-- and how high each row should be
local prompt_height = row_height * num_rows
local prompt_width = 300
-- make a widget in the middle of the screen
local background = wibox({
x = awful.screen.focused().geometry.width / 2 - prompt_width / 2,
y = awful.screen.focused().geometry.height / 2 - prompt_height / 2,
width = prompt_width,
height = prompt_height,
bg = "#111111",
visible = false,
ontop = false
})
local rofi_launcher = wibox.widget({
widget = background,
{
-- get a flexible layout so the searchbox and the suggestion boxes get
-- scaled to take up all the space of the background
layout = wibox.layout.flex.vertical,
{ -- the prompt you actually type in
-- set id here so we can adjust its ratio later, so the magnifying
-- glass will end up on the right, and the texbox will take up the left side
id = "searchbox_and_mangifying_glass",
layout = wibox.layout.ratio.horizontal,
{
-- set id so we can use it as a prompt later
id = "searchbox",
widget = wibox.widget.textbox,
},
{
widget = wibox.widget.imagebox,
icon = '~/path/to/magnifying_glass_icon.svg',
},
},
{ -- this is where I actually create the rows that will display suggestions
{ -- row number 1
-- make a background for the textbox to sit in, so you can change
-- background color later for the selected widget, etc etc.
widget = wibox.widget.background,
{
-- give it an id so we can change what's displayed in the
-- textbox when we press keys in the prompt
id = "suggestion_1",
widget = wibox.widget.textbox,
},
},
{ -- row number 2
-- background, again
widget = wibox.widget.background,
{
-- id and textbox again
id = "suggestion_2",
widget = wibox.widget.textbox,
},
},
-- and another 8 (according to the `num_rows` variable) of the same two
-- textboxes above. This is exactly my problem. How can I make these
-- textboxes automatically and still be able to interact with them to
-- display suggestions on the fly, as the user types keys into the prompt?
},
},
})
If this is not clear enough please do let me know what you don't understand and I will update my question.
Equally untested as your code, but this creates a tables of textboxes instead of using the declarative layout to create all these textboxes:
[SNIP; For shorter code I removed some stuff at the beginning]
local textboxes = {}
local widgets = {}
for i = 1, num_rows do
local tb = wibox.widget.textbox()
local bg = wibox.widget.background(tb)
bg:set_bg("#ff0000") -- The original code did not set a bg color, but that would make the bg widget useless...?
tb.id = "suggestion_" .. tostring(i) -- This is likely unnecessary, but the original code set these IDs, too
table.insert(textboxes, tb)
table.insert(widgets, bg)
end
local rofi_launcher = wibox.widget({
widget = background,
{
-- get a flexible layout so the searchbox and the suggestion boxes get
-- scaled to take up all the space of the background
layout = wibox.layout.flex.vertical,
{ -- the prompt you actually type in
[SNIP - I did not change anything here; I only removed this part to make the code shorter]
},
widgets
},
})
-- Now make the textboxes display something
textboxes[3].text = "I am the third row"
textboxes[5].text = "I am not"
Often in Jupyter I'd move to different parts of the notebook to look at something, and when I am done I want to jump back to where I was working on previously. Right now I'd have to navigate to the closest Markdown section (through the Jupyter Notebook Extensions) and move up or down to get to where I was. Is there a way to jump directly to the last cell that I have made an edit (preferably through keyboard shortcut)? Thanks!
Ideally this would be a built-in shortcut of course, but in the meantime:
Option 1: Custom JavaScript
If you get a browser extension like Custom JavaScript for Websites 2 (open-source), then you can use this code to record a stack of scroll position histories and jump backwards with Ctrl+Shift+X:
// Visit JupyterLab in browser and click the Custom JS browser extension icon and then paste this:
if(location.href.startsWith("http://localhost:8888/lab")) {
let scrollLocationsHistories = new Map();
let scrollBinHeight = 100;
window.addEventListener("keydown", (e) => {
let notebookEl = document.querySelector(".jp-mod-searchable .jp-NotebookPanel-notebook");
if(!scrollLocationsHistories.has(notebookEl)) scrollLocationsHistories.set(notebookEl, [])
let scrollLocationsHistory = scrollLocationsHistories.get(notebookEl);
if(e.ctrlKey && e.shiftKey && e.key === "X") {
if(scrollLocationsHistory.length > 0) {
e.preventDefault();
let origScrollPos = notebookEl.scrollTop;
notebookEl.scrollTo(0, scrollLocationsHistory.pop()*scrollBinHeight);
let newScrollPos = notebookEl.scrollTop;
if(Math.abs(origScrollPos-newScrollPos) < scrollBinHeight && scrollLocationsHistory.length > 0) {
notebookEl.scrollTo(0, scrollLocationsHistory.pop()*scrollBinHeight); // jump back again because last edit position was close to current position
}
console.log("Scroll History (newest locations at end):", scrollLocationsHistory.map(v => v*scrollBinHeight))
}
} else if(!e.ctrlKey && !e.shiftKey && document.activeElement.tagName.toLowerCase() === "textarea") {
let scrollBin = Math.round(notebookEl.scrollTop/scrollBinHeight);
if(scrollLocationsHistory[scrollLocationsHistory.length-1] !== scrollBin) {
scrollLocationsHistory.push(scrollBin);
if(scrollLocationsHistory.length > 500) scrollLocationsHistory = scrollLocationsHistory.slice(-250);
}
}
});
}
It's just an initial prototype, but it seems to work quite well so far. You may want to adjust it a bit - e.g. scrollBinHeight causes nearby edits that are within scrollBinHeight pixels of one another to not create a second history entry. You'll need to edit http://localhost:8888/lab to match the URL that you want to enable it on. If you're reading this long after I've written it, then you may also need to change document.querySelector(".jp-mod-searchable .jp-NotebookPanel-notebook") (i.e. the main scrolling element of the active notebook) in case they've updated the HTML class names, or HTML structure.
Option 2: Fold Often
Another possible option (which may be impractical depending on your use case) is to get used to folding cells that you're not currently working on. That makes it much easy to quickly scroll between cells that you're working on.
Option 3: Search Hack
If you're working on a particular cell but often have to jump to another one, you can add a comment like #vv (or any random easy-to-type string) to both of those cells and then whenever you need to jump between them, just press Ctrl+F and then Enter. The first time you do this you'll obviously need to type vv in the search box, but after that it'll be remembered (unless you use the search for another string). The disadvantage of this approach is that you need to "prune" the #vvs from cells that you're no longer working on.
echap to go to command mode, then Ctrl + z will undo your last change, which will bring the focus on the last edited cell. ctrl + y will redo the last modification.
(Only tested on python3 kernel)
EDIT Actually if you press ctrl + z just once, you only get the focus part, without modifying your cell. Then press enter to go to edit mode, which scrolls the page to the active cell.
In the atom editor I'd like to be able to create notes 'in between' the lines of a file. I'm more than happy to do this via a plugin, but I'm wondering if someone more experienced in the API can confirm whether it's even possible before I dive in.
Basically, if I open a file with 10 lines, I want to be able to 'insert' new lines between some of them (which will be saved to another file), while still maintaining the line numbering of the original file. Eg:
1 Hello
2 World
. This is a note line saved in another file 'attached' to line 2
3 Foo
4 Etc
Think along the lines of inline comments on GitHub.
You can use block decorations to inject text between two lines:
A block decoration is a special kind of decoration that allows you to insert a DOM node before or after a certain line, and have it follow the line as the buffer changes. You can see it in action by running the snippet below in the DevTools:
var element = document.createElement('div')
element.textContent = 'Block decorations! 🐲'
var editor = atom.workspace.getActiveTextEditor()
var marker = editor.markScreenPosition([0, 0])
editor.decorateMarker(marker, {type: 'block', position: 'before', item: element})
In your case, you would be injecting text rather than GIFs, but you get the idea!
I am running WYSIHTML5 to allow myself to enter email text and format it for sending as HTML. However when I view HTML of the formatted text I get classes associated with elements for Colors. This is expected behavior but since I need to send the output in an email hence I would like to have those colors to be in Inline CSS, since I cannot attach CSS files with the email like that. Example here
<span class="wysiwyg-color-green">Testing</span>
That is if I select green color for text: Testing. Is there any way to modify that green to become part of html itself like
<span style="color:green">Testing</span>
I have tried to search for this but could not find, so I am not asking without first looking for it. If anybody could please just point somewhere. Even a link to any guide to this, will do. I do not wish that you spend time writing code for me.
You could do it with php :
str_replace ( 'class="wysiwyg-color-green"', 'style="color:green"' ,$html)
You can do the same with javascript, altrough it's always safer to do everything server-side.
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_replace.asp
Here's the javascript code I used but may be a good idea to heed Jean-Georges warning above:
replaceColorStylesWithInlineCss = function (htmlContents){
result = htmlContents.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-black"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-black" style="color:black"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-silver"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-silver" style="color:silver"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-gray"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-gray" style="color:gray"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-maroon"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-maroon" style="color:maroon"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-red"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-red" style="color:red"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-purple"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-purple" style="color:purple"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-green"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-green" style="color:green"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-olive"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-olive" style="color:olive"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-navy"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-navy" style="color:navy"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-blue"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-blue" style="color:blue"');
result = result.replace('class="wysiwyg-color-orange"', 'class="wysiwyg-color-orange" style="color:orange"');
return result
};
Note: I kept the wysiwyg styles in there because I'm saving to the db and want it to display properly in the wysihtml5 section when I load it again. DRY it up if you're clever.