Howdy,
Can a Python extension script provide the following;
- browse for and select a file - the text in the file becomes a text object in my drawing
Thanks, Kent
Kent Tenney wrote:
Can a Python extension script provide the following;
- browse for and select a file
To do this your script will need to provide its own graphical user interface, because at this time the gui automatically created by Inkscape does not provide a file selection widget.
- the text in the file becomes a text object in my drawing
Absolutely.
Aaron Spike
On 8/2/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Kent Tenney wrote:
Can a Python extension script provide the following;
- browse for and select a file
To do this your script will need to provide its own graphical user interface, because at this time the gui automatically created by Inkscape does not provide a file selection widget.
- the text in the file becomes a text object in my drawing
Absolutely.
Lets say my script gets to this point text = file('filename').read()
is something of this sort possible?
document.addText(text)
Thanks, Kent
Aaron Spike
Kent Tenney wrote:
Lets say my script gets to this point text = file('filename').read()
is something of this sort possible?
document.addText(text)
Something of that sort, yes. Exactly what something depends on the xml library that you choose to use to process the svg. If you plan to follow suit, Inkscape 0.45 and prior has been using pyxml and Inkscape 0.46 and after will use the fantastic lxml library. You may also want to browse our extension docs on the wiki at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Extensions and read through an extension script or two from those included with inkscape.
Aaron Spike
On this wiki page http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ScriptingHOWTO
3 types of scripts are mentioned; - input - output - effect
This wiki page; http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionArchitecture
says about another type of extension, 'Tools':
"Tools. Tools are the ways that you draw in Inkscape. Rectangle tool, circle tool, star tool... the goal is to eventually have the ability to add tools as extensions. (no code)"
For what I want to do, 'Tools' would be very useful.
Does the (no code) part mean that the 'Tools' bindings have not been written?
Thanks, Kent
On 8/2/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Kent Tenney wrote:
Lets say my script gets to this point text = file('filename').read()
is something of this sort possible?
document.addText(text)
Something of that sort, yes. Exactly what something depends on the xml library that you choose to use to process the svg. If you plan to follow suit, Inkscape 0.45 and prior has been using pyxml and Inkscape 0.46 and after will use the fantastic lxml library. You may also want to browse our extension docs on the wiki at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Extensions and read through an extension script or two from those included with inkscape.
Aaron Spike
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 07:59 -0500, Kent Tenney wrote:
On 8/5/07, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 14:37 -0500, Kent Tenney wrote:
Does the (no code) part mean that the 'Tools' bindings have not been written?
Yes, sorry.
Is there an ETA for this? 0.46?
It is on my TODO list, but I think that 0.46 would be optimistic. I'm currently trying to get Effects cleaned up a lot first. That's my goal for 0.46.
Really, it all depends on how often my son sleeps through the night ;)
--Ted
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:59:46 +0100, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 07:59 -0500, Kent Tenney wrote:
On 8/5/07, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 14:37 -0500, Kent Tenney wrote:
Does the (no code) part mean that the 'Tools' bindings have not been written?
Yes, sorry.
Is there an ETA for this? 0.46?
It is on my TODO list, but I think that 0.46 would be optimistic. I'm currently trying to get Effects cleaned up a lot first. That's my goal for 0.46.
Really, it all depends on how often my son sleeps through the night ;)
Have you tried Gin (for either of you)?
Let me know if I can help - I can program in Python, not C++ - I'm a good babysitter
Thanks, Kent
On 8/6/07, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 07:59 -0500, Kent Tenney wrote:
On 8/5/07, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 14:37 -0500, Kent Tenney wrote:
Does the (no code) part mean that the 'Tools' bindings have not been written?
Yes, sorry.
Is there an ETA for this? 0.46?
It is on my TODO list, but I think that 0.46 would be optimistic. I'm currently trying to get Effects cleaned up a lot first. That's my goal for 0.46.
Really, it all depends on how often my son sleeps through the night ;)
--Ted
On 8/7/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Kent Tenney wrote:
Let me know if I can help
- I can program in Python, not C++
Me too, but they are basically the same thing.
Do you mean the C++ mainly just wraps Python code? I think I've seen code like that.
It would be a great learning experience. And there are a lot of very helpful people in the Inkscape community. :-)
I assume minimum requirement to start is a working compile environment.
My situation places my at a Windows machine. Which would you recommend; - trying to set up an environment to compile inkscape on Windows - building a Linux machine to develop on
Thanks, Kent
Aaron Spike
Kent Tenney wrote:
On 8/7/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Kent Tenney wrote:
Let me know if I can help
- I can program in Python, not C++
Me too, but they are basically the same thing.
Do you mean the C++ mainly just wraps Python code? I think I've seen code like that.
No, I mean they are both languages that some human invented for the purpose of speaking to computers.
It would be a great learning experience. And there are a lot of very helpful people in the Inkscape community. :-)
I assume minimum requirement to start is a working compile environment.
My situation places my at a Windows machine. Which would you recommend;
- trying to set up an environment to compile inkscape on Windows
- building a Linux machine to develop on
I use both. We have a number of developers that use one or the other. I personally think that developing software is a more pleasant experience on linux. But I think you should start out with whatever is the least work for you, probably windows.
Aaron
On 8/7/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Kent Tenney wrote:
On 8/7/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Kent Tenney wrote:
Let me know if I can help
- I can program in Python, not C++
Me too, but they are basically the same thing.
Do you mean the C++ mainly just wraps Python code? I think I've seen code like that.
No, I mean they are both languages that some human invented for the purpose of speaking to computers.
In theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice, they are very different. :-]
It would be a great learning experience. And there are a lot of very helpful people in the Inkscape community. :-)
I assume minimum requirement to start is a working compile environment.
My situation places my at a Windows machine. Which would you recommend;
- trying to set up an environment to compile inkscape on Windows
- building a Linux machine to develop on
I use both. We have a number of developers that use one or the other. I personally think that developing software is a more pleasant experience on linux. But I think you should start out with whatever is the least work for you, probably windows.
Windows only if there's a well-documented and reliable way to configure a free C++ toolchain.
If not, it's much less work to develop on Linux it would seem.
Aaron
Kent Tenney wrote:
Windows only if there's a well-documented and reliable way to configure a free C++ toolchain.
As I said we have a number of people developing on Windows and we provide a couple of packages that make entry very simple for new windows developers. There are a number of docs scattered around detailing how to compile inkscape on various platforms. I will point out a few things here to get you started and offer to attempt answering any questions you have on or off list. Additionally the irc/jabber chatroom is an excellent place to get realtime help from people who know how to make this stuff work.
First you will want to checkout a copy of the Inkscape source tree from SVN. The URI you need to use can be found on the Inkscape website. ( http://inkscape.org/svn.php?lang=en ) On windows I strongly recommend using TortoiseSVN. ( http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ )
Next you will want to grab our helpful archives from Modevia. ( http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/?C=M;O=D ) You will need both the compiler and the library bundle. Links to the latest versions are
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/mingw-4.2.0-070518.7z http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk210-070715.7z
The compiler should be unzipped at c:\mingw and the libraries should be unzipped at c:\gtk210. (If you choose to put them elsewhere you will need to edit the paths in mingwenv.bat (coming up later).) Oh, you'll need 7zip for decompression. ( http://www.7-zip.org/ )
Once you have all the files you need you'll be able to follow the the build instructions at on the wiki. ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Win32Port )
Aaron Spike
On 8/7/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
Kent Tenney wrote:
Windows only if there's a well-documented and reliable way to configure a free C++ toolchain.
As I said we have a number of people developing on Windows and we provide a couple of packages that make entry very simple for new windows developers.
Wow, this is wonderful, it worked flawlessly. I'm not used to that.
Thanks, Kent
There are a number of docs scattered around detailing how to compile inkscape on various platforms. I will point out a few things here to get you started and offer to attempt answering any questions you have on or off list. Additionally the irc/jabber chatroom is an excellent place to get realtime help from people who know how to make this stuff work.
First you will want to checkout a copy of the Inkscape source tree from SVN. The URI you need to use can be found on the Inkscape website. ( http://inkscape.org/svn.php?lang=en ) On windows I strongly recommend using TortoiseSVN. ( http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ )
Next you will want to grab our helpful archives from Modevia. ( http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/?C=M;O=D ) You will need both the compiler and the library bundle. Links to the latest versions are
http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/mingw-4.2.0-070518.7z http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk210-070715.7z
The compiler should be unzipped at c:\mingw and the libraries should be unzipped at c:\gtk210. (If you choose to put them elsewhere you will need to edit the paths in mingwenv.bat (coming up later).) Oh, you'll need 7zip for decompression. ( http://www.7-zip.org/ )
Once you have all the files you need you'll be able to follow the the build instructions at on the wiki. ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Win32Port )
Aaron Spike
On 8/2/07, Kent Tenney <ktenney@...400...> wrote:
Can a Python extension script provide the following;
- browse for and select a file
- the text in the file becomes a text object in my drawing
So why not just use Import command on text files?
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