On 3/2/21 2:09 PM, Jean Ghali wrote:
> Le 02/03/2021 à 19:41, Gregory Pittman a écrit :
>> Has anyone had any luck using getFirstLinkedFrame() and getNextLinkedFrame()?
>>
>> I have been trying to write a script that would march down a set of linked
>> frames, so I could analyze the content. getFirstLinkedFrame() seems to work
>> as expected, but not getNextLinkedFrame(). The script spins and spins and
>> spins and won't quit.
>> The documentation says that if you do this:
>>
>> textbox = scribus.getNextLinkedFrame()
>>
>> it returns None if there are no more, but what "value" is assigned to
>> textbox in that case? I'm trying to stop execution of frame content analysis
>> when it reaches that point.
>> I even tried
>>
>> while (textbox):
>>
>> thinking that would evaluate to 0 if there were no more, but that doesn't
>> work. Trying to put str(textbox) into a messageBox() doesn't work.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>
> Here an example which loops across frames of a text chain and print the name
> of each linked frame:
>
> textbox = scribus.getNextLinkedFrame("Text1")
> while textbox is not None:
> print(textbox)
> textbox = scribus.getNextLinkedFrame(textbox)
>
Great! Thanks, Jean.
The thing I didn't understand is the need for getNextLinkedFrame() to have an
object inside the parentheses. Without that, it keeps going back to the initial
frame that I selected before I ran the script.
Greg
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