Re: Implementing my ideas in write/report activity using pyabiword

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:08 AM, sumit singh<sumit.coder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to discuss the ideas which I am planning and implemented
> in the write/report activity. I was trying to use multiple instances
> of abiword.Canvas, however, they seem to be a bit unreliable as the
> activity crashes some time. So, I would like to discuss these ideas
> with you people, so that it would be great if anyone could suggest to
> implement these features in some other and easier ways. Here are
> they--
>
> 1. I need to have a starting screen which gives options of choosing
> b/w options of building your own templates or to use the already
> designed ones. Moreover, if I opt for the 2nd one, then I should get
> all the already designed templates in png forms to choose from. ----
> Using a notebook in order to maintain seperate 2 pages for these and
> the 3rd one as a abiword.Canvas for actual working and switching b/w
> them.
>
> 2. I want that whenever a person uses a template to design the
> documents, whenever he adds a new page, all the new pages added should
> already be loaded with the 2nd page of the template,they should look
> like the 2nd page of the template. ----- I am loading another page to
> the notebook containing the 2nd page of the template using
> abiword.canvas . Now, by using the select_all and copy commands of
> Canvas on the newly loaded doc, I am bringing the content of the 2nd
> page to the clipboard and then pasting it on the first page. All this
> is done programmatically ie when the user clicks on the button to add
> a new page all this should happen automatically.
>
> 3. The textboxes which we make by dragging in abiword, should be able
> to be added by default in 3 shapes, ie I should provide options so
> that when the user clicks on a particular shape of a textbox , that
> shape should be automatically added. Moreover, the heading textbox
> should by default have big fonts , bold ones, and so on for
> others-----   A similar approach like 2nd, already saved documents
> containing one type of box each , whenever a user wants a particular
> one, loads corresponding shape , select_all, copy and paste.
>
> 4. Adding shapes--- would be using by default png images as svg is not
> supported as of now, and whenever the user clicks on a particular
> shape and color would load that particuar image using the
> insert_image.
>
> 5. We should be able to come back to the main menu ie if we are
> working on a particular doc and then the user decides to come back to
> the main menu to load some other template, then the one he is working
> on should be saved and new one must be loaded instead. ----- Well, one
> way was to load the new one to a new page of the notebook , show that
> page and save the earlier one. Otherway might be to save the current
> one, load the new one to the same page and save this one with a new
> name.
>
> I have already implemented all these. However, the point is that
> sometimes it works fine and sometimes the activity crashes, due to
> loading multiple abiword.canvas thing. I am also trying to do it with
> vbox, if it works. I know the implementation might be foolish at
> places, I am not very well aquainted to the power of pyabiword but I
> would be happy enough if anybody could suggest better and easier ways
> to implement them.
>

Hi Summit,
                 All excellent ideas that should work if the current
implementation reliably supported multiple canvases.

Can you email me your python code and I'll use it to debug the
multiple canvas issue.

Thank you,

Martin

> Regards,
> sumit
>
Received on Sat Jul 25 04:38:42 2009