I have added column/row size to my todo list.

Note that I changed the blessed saving api.

Morten

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 7:59 PM <dm-gn...@mercuryresearch.com> wrote:

> OK, I've completed my sample application. It's a simple data collection
> program that
> gets the current bitcoin price and appends it to a spreadsheet. Appears
> to work so far
> on Morten's updated version as of this morning.

> It can be found at:


https://github.com/deanmccarron/gnumeric-python-examples/blob/master/python-gnumeric-example.py

> In writing it I stumbled into at least one wish-list item, which is a
> blessed set of
> function calls for formatting row and column widths/heights. I played
> around with
> doing some kind of class inheritance on the workbook object to add file
> I/O using
> methods, but my python-fu is weak.

> I wrote in a pretty verbose commentary style, it should be fairly easy
> to follow what
> I'm doing. It's not especially pretty Python code, but it is exactly
> what I wished I had
> when I started down my VB to Gnumeric conversion more than a year ago.
> Hopefully
> this, the patches and the massive amount of work Morten on the
> introspection interface
> as well as his examples will make life a lot easier for those that follow.


> On 04/14/2018 08:52 AM, dm-gn...@mercuryresearch.com wrote:
> > Turned out the be a problem in my package builder -- I suspect I'm
> > missing some part of the toolchain as the "@YELP_HELP_RULES@" line in
> > the doc makefile was breaking with a missing separator warning.
> >
> > This was added since 1.12.32, presumably installing yelp-tools will
> > fix this?
> >
> > Commented it out and I'm up an running. I also updated goffice for
> > good measure.
> >
> > basic and simple tests pass now with no issue. On io test I'm getting:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "t3002-introspection-io.py", line 25, in <module>
> >     wbv = Gnm.WorkbookView.new_from_uri (src_uri, None, ioc, None)
> > TypeError: constructor returned NULL
> >
> > The plugin test is failing as well, but this is very likely due to me
> > missing some components (I only use Gnumeric, not gnome) and this
> > isn't an especially great concern in my use case.
> >
> >
> > On 04/14/2018 05:39 AM, Morten Welinder wrote:
> >>> So it's expected a Gnm.Cell and not the col, row provided in the
> >>> program.
> >> That's a sign you're picking up an old introspection file. "make
> >> install"
> >> might help.
> >>
> >> M.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 9:18 PM <dm-gn...@mercuryresearch.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Also using your test program, as is I get an error when it hits the
> >>> sheet.cell_set_value
> >>> operation, saying it got 3 variables instead of the 2 expected. When I
> >>> change it to two, I get:
> >>> TypeError: argument cell: Expected Gnm.Cell
> >>> So it's expected a Gnm.Cell and not the col, row provided in the
> >>> program.
> >>
> >>> I suspect I'm probably testing a bit ahead of your patches on github.
> >>
> >>> On 04/13/2018 06:00 PM, dm-gn...@mercuryresearch.com wrote:
> >>>> OK, I've updated from github (I installed goffice and gnumeric) and
> >>>> I'm getting a crash on my application's file IO:
> >>>>
> >>>> ** (pubrep:23096): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus:
> >>>> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-E0H2kRCBCm: Connection refused
> >>>> shell to uri
> >>>> workbook view from uri
> >>>>
> >>>> ** (pubrep:23096): CRITICAL **: go_doc_init_read: assertion
> >>>> 'doc->priv->imagebuf == NULL' failed
> >>>> Segmentation fault
> >>>>
> >>>> This appears to be happening on the line
> >>>>
> >>>> s_wbv=Gnm.WorkbookView.new_from_uri(s_uri, None, io, None)
> >>>>
> >>>> Which is the actual workbook file open read. Though this may just be
> >>>> me (perhaps I need to update other libraries?)
> >>>>
> >>>> This worked on goffice-0.10.32 with the patches I'd used on gnumeric.
> >>>> So we'll need to sort out what changed.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 04/13/2018 11:17 AM, Morten Welinder wrote:
> >>>>> Major progress on my end.  I found two major sources of
> >>>>> crashes (1:
> >>>>> many of our
> >>>>> boxed types were bad; 2: some pygobject versions fail on
> >>>>> transfer-full arguments).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You can follow the battle at
> >>>>> Â Â Â
> >> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/tree/README-introspection
> >>>>> although that file may move.  This file also contains
> >>>>> the "blessed"
> >>>>> API.
> >>>>> This is still evolving.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My main test script is at
> >>>>> Â Â Â
> >>>>>
> >>
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/tree/test/t3001-introspection-simple.py
> >>
> >>>>> It does pretty much everything one can do to a workbook other than
> >>>>> file i/o.
> >>>>> (That's somewhere on my list.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Note: I have marked lots of functions as "skip" because they are
> >>>>> low-level functions
> >>>>> not intended for scripting.  Most of GnmCell's methods
> >>>>> are like
> >>>>> that.  They don't do
> >>>>> what you would expect of them and there are proper alternatives,
> >>>>> typically in Sheet.Â
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Morten
> >>>>>
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