[scribus] while loop in python script crashes scribus

[Chantal Rosmuller]

On Saturday 31 January 2009 00:25:52 Patrick Wallace wrote:
> I don't have time to actually test this in Scribus itself, but here's a
> cleaned up version which (should) fix things.
> In case the crash is coming from non-unicode text being input, I added a
> correction to avoid that. I've also cleaned up the while loop a bit to
> make it more readable and run faster. Also, we are advised to always
> tell Scribus that our code is utf-8 so that starts the script.
>
> I added a file open check so the script quits when the input text file
> cannot be found and some other little cleanup stuff. Also made the
> horizontal position of the text box into a variable rather than hard-coded.
>
> See if this works any better. <g>
>
> Pat
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>
> # ---------------------------------------------------#
> # script to import text file into scribus
> #----------------------------------------------------#
>
> import sys
> try:
>     import scribus
>
> except ImportError:
>     print "This script only works from within Scribus"
>     sys.exit(1)
>
> #----------------------------------------------------#
> # declareer variabelen                               #
> #----------------------------------------------------#
>
> VerticalPosition = 100         # y of (x,y) position for text box
> HorizontalPosition = 60        # x of (x,y) position for text box
> Width = 325.99                 # text box width
> Height = 50                    # initial text box height
> VerticalMarge = 10             #afstand tussen de tekstboxen
> TextFile=''                    # tekst file dat geimporteerd moet worden
>
> Page = 0                     # bladzijde, we beginnen bij 0
> Add = ''
> OverflowChar = 0             #overflowing characters, we will adjust
> textbox height until this is 0
>
> #----------------------------------------------------#
> # actie                                              #
> #----------------------------------------------------#
>
> if scribus.newDoc(scribus.PAPER_A5, (51.02,42.52,42.52,53.86),
> scribus.PORTRAIT, 1, scribus.UNIT_POINTS, scribus.FACINGPAGES,
> scribus.FIRSTPAGERIGHT): # laad stylen
>     try:
>         TextFile = open('/home/pat/workspace/scribusTut/test.txt', 'r')
>     except:
>         print "Cannot open text file\n"
>         sys.exit(1)
>
>     # determine how big a text box can be allowed to grow maxBoxHeight)
>     pageWidth, pageHeight = scribus.getPageSize()
>     topMargin, leftMargin, rightMargin, bottomMargin =
> scribus.getPageMargins() maxBoxHeight = pageHeight - topMargin  -
> bottomMargin
>
>     for line in TextFile:
>
> #[c] The following commented out code could be used if text files cannot be
> trusted to not contain #[c] trailing white space or if users might break
> lines arbitrarily, adding paragraph breaks we don't want. #[c]
> #[c]        line = line.rstrip()                # strip trailing white
> space plus \n (also \r, I suppose) #[c]        if len(line) > 0:
> #[c]            Add = Add + line + ' '    # add one trailing space so
> continued lines won't run together #[c]        else:
> #[c]            Add = Add.rstrip()+'\n'    # take away final trailing space
> & add \n to end this paragraph
>
>         if len(line) > 1:
>             Add = Add + unicode(line,'iso-8859-2')    # make sure text is
> unicode for Scribus else:
>             #make textbox
>             TextBox = scribus.createText(HorizontalPosition,
> VerticalPosition, Width, Height)
> VerticalPosition=VerticalPosition+VerticalMarge+Height
>
>             #vul de textbox
>             scribus.setText(Add, TextBox)
>
>             #check if alles well
>             OverflowChar = scribus.textOverflows(TextBox)
>             while OverflowChar > 0:
>                 Height=Height+100
>                 if Height > maxBoxHeight:
>                     scribus.sizeObject(Width,maxBoxHeight,TextBox)
>                     break    # ugly, but we have to stop somehow
>                 else:
>                     scribus.sizeObject(Width,Height,TextBox)
>                 OverflowChar = scribus.textOverflows(TextBox)
>             Add = ''        # reset in case this gets put into a multi-file
> while loop later on TextFile.close()    # clean up after ourselves
>
>
>
>
>
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Thanks Patrick, this script does not crash scribus which is nice :).

However the textboxes are too long, it seems scribus.textOverflows(TextBox) is 
noit returning the right value