Someday I hope to be able to use Leo to manage some fairly large and
complex projects, specifically with the use of clones, and I would be
looking for a way to import project data elements into Leo. I was
envisioning using Leo's ability to import MORE format files, since it is
such a simple format (and being a Leo newbie, I like simple!).
MORE uses + and - to trigger new headlines, and I was envisioning a new,
special character to trigger the creation of a cloned node at the
current import location. Suppose the special character is a tilde (~).
+ someheadline1
Body text for someheadline1 goes here.
+ someheadline2
Body text for someheadline2 goes here.
+ someheadline3
Body text for someheadline3 goes here.
+ project element1
Body text for project element1 goes here.
-~ someheadline2
+ project element2
Body text for project element2 goes here.
-~ someheadline1
-~ someheadline2
+~ someheadline3
There could be no body text below a headline marked with "~" as the body
would come from the cloned node.
What I think I'd have to do in leoImport.py is:
1. Change moreHeadlineLevel() to look for "~" in addition to "+" and "-"
2. Probably change moreHeadlineLevel() to return a new flag, maybe
cloneFlag, when it found a "~".
3. Change convertMoreStringsToOutlineAfter() so that after
moreHeadlineLevel(), if cloneFlag is true...
4. Call findTopLevelNode() with the text of the "~" headline, and if one
is found...
... and this is as far as I think I can code on my own. What are the
equivalents to insertAfter() and insertAsNthChild() when inserting as
clones? Is there anything else I would need to do to implement the logic
above?
Do I know what I'm doing? No. Do I know Python? No. But I can study the
code to try to figure things out as best I can. Then holler for help on
this forum. :D
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Creating outline file programmatically - any samples?
From: Edward K. Ream <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:33:04 AM
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Satheesh Babu Vattekkat
<[email protected]> wrote:
One really good use I can
think of is to automate generating outline files from different data
sources.
ie., take a minimal file, load it into Leo, then run through my
exported data and attach instances of leoNodes to the file and then
save it. I will also need to attach cloned nodes at various points in
the outline.
Has anyone done this or any pointers on how to go about this?
Creating a new Leo outline will create a minimal .leo file when you
save the outline.
A script can do this with c2 = c.new()
If you don't want to see the new window, you can use the contents of
c.new to guide you. c.new calls::
c,frame = g.app.newLeoCommanderAndFrame(
fileName=yourFileName,gui=None)
If gui is None, g.app.gui is used as default. We may want a null gui::
import leo.core.leoGui as leoGui
nullGui = leoGui.nullGui("nullGui")
c2,frame = g.app.newLeoCommanderAndFrame(
fileName=None,gui=nullGui)
c2.frame.createFirstTreeNode()
for p in c2.all_positions():
g.es(p.h)
This works.
Edward
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