Wow, Andre. This is cool. This is exactly what I wanted (and why I
posted the original inquiry), but never got around to.
Open source *does* work! (Especially for those of us that sit on the sidelines.)
On Nov 28, 2007 10:20 PM, Andre Mueninghoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> I see what you mean...I had all of that on one line the same as you did,
> and I didn't notice that the paste into email bit me also.
>
> Here's where I went next (for those who might be interested)...this
> should suit for a bit my desire to have simple rapidly available prints
> of collections, for example, errand lists. I'm sure I'm violating a few
> standard practices and such, but that was fun, and it works. :)
> Please pardon my having left in my specific naming. A minor thing I'm
> not able to solve right now is how to get the menu item title to read
> something other than "Some action" from your original template. I've
> replaced that string in my version, but the menu item title hasn't
> changed.
>
> Cheers, Andre
>
> #----------
> #AndrePlugin/setup.py
> #----------
>
> from setuptools import setup
>
> setup(
> name = "AndrePlugin",
> version = "0.1",
> packages = ["andre_plugin"],
> entry_points = {
> "chandler.parcels": ["AndrePlugin package = andre_plugin"],
> },
> )
>
> #---------- End of setup.py
>
>
> #----------
> #AndrePlugin/andre_plugin/__init__.py
> #printtofiles
> #----------
>
> from application import schema
> from osaf.framework.blocks import BlockEvent, MenuItem
> from osaf.framework.blocks.Block import Block
>
> from i18n import MessageFactory
> # using _ for unicode that will be displayed to users enables localizers
> to
> # change the unicode
> _ = MessageFactory("AndrePlugin")
>
> def installParcel(parcel, oldVersion=None):
>
> # find the parent menu for your new menu item
> parentMenu = schema.ns('osaf.views.main', parcel).FileMenu
>
> # the code that should handle events when your menu item is chosen
> handler = AndrePluginMenuBlock.update(parcel, None,
> blockName='AndrePluginMenuHandler')
>
> # the event that's sent when your menu item is chosen
> addAndrePluginEvent = BlockEvent.update(parcel, None,
> blockName='ActionOnAndrePlugin',
> dispatchEnum='SendToBlockByReference',
> destinationBlockReference=handler)
>
> # create the menu item
> MenuItem.update(parcel, None, blockName='AndrePluginMenu',
> title=_(u"Print items to file"),
> accel = _(u'Ctrl+Shift+Y'),
> helpString=_(u"This does something"),
> event=addAndrePluginEvent,
> parentBlock=parentMenu)
>
> class AndrePluginMenuBlock(Block):
> # the method name has to be the blockName of the BlockEvent above
> # sandwiched with "on" and "Event"
> def onActionOnAndrePluginEvent(self, event):
> filename = "itemlist.txt"
> # Append to existing file or create new file
> file = open(filename, 'a')
> print "Writing to file: %s" % filename
> for item in
> Block.findBlockByName("MainView").getSidebarSelectedCollection():
> # Get triageStatus of item in selection collection
> item_triageStatus = item._triageStatus
> # Get title of item in selection collection
> item_title = item.displayName
> # Get body of item in selection collection
> item_body = item.body
> # Python's print can't print unicode, encode as utf-8
> # encoded_triageStatus = item_triageStatus.encode('utf-8')
> encoded_title = item_title.encode('utf-8')
> encoded_body = item_body.encode('utf-8')
> # Print to the console
> # print "\n-------------------------------------------\n"
> # print item_triageStatus
> # print encoded_title
> # print encoded_body
> # Print to file
> print >> file, "-------------------------------------------"
> print >> file, "%s \n" % item_triageStatus
> print >> file, "%s \n" % encoded_title
> print >> file, "%s \n" % encoded_body
> print >> file, "End of Item List"
> file.close()
> print "Done writing to file"
>
> #---------- End of __init__.py
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:51:10 -0800, "Jeffrey Harris"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > Hi Andre,
> >
> > > I believe I'm (now) installing my plugin without error.
> > >
> > > Q1. I made one change to the init.py script in response to a runtime
> > > syntax error that halted Chandler in (my line 42) "for item in". Is my
> > > fix correct?
> > >
> > > class AndrePluginMenuBlock(Block):
> > > # the method name has to be the blockName of the BlockEvent above
> > > # sandwiched with "on" and "Event"
> > > def onActionOnAndrePluginEvent(self, event):
> > > for item in
> > > Block.findBlockByName("MainView").getSidebarSelectedCollection():
> >
> > "for item in" and the following "Block. ..." line ought to be on the
> > same line, your code ought to give a syntax error when run :)
> >
> > The line I wrote will get wrapped by most mail clients. Mostly Python's
> > whitespace sensitivity doesn't bother me, but it's a problem when
> > emailing Python code... I should've made that line shorter.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Jeffrey
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