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
