[Scribus] Yet ANOTHER scripting bug

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Sat Dec 1 14:29:36 CET 2007


Chris Bergstresser wrote:
> Hi --
>
>    I'm really getting frustrated with the quality of Scribus.  The
> latest bug (I assume bug) is the following:
>
>     scribus.selectText(0, 0, selected_frame)
>     scribus.insertText("Hello", -1, selected_frame)
>     scribus.selectText(0, 5), selected_frame)
>     scribus.setStyle("Section Head", selected_frame)
>
> This code works.  However, neither of the following do:
>
>     scribus.selectText(0, 0, selected_frame)
>     scribus.insertText("Hello\n", -1, selected_frame)
>     scribus.selectText(0, 5), selected_frame)
>     scribus.setStyle("Section Head", selected_frame)
>
> ... and ...
>
>     scribus.selectText(0, 0, selected_frame)
>     scribus.insertText("Hello", -1, selected_frame)
>     scribus.selectText(0, 6), selected_frame)
>     scribus.setStyle("Section Head", selected_frame)
>
> ... both do nothing at all.  Why?
>   
overall conceptually should work, will check out. Perhaps this is a 
typo, but all of your examples have unbalanced parentheses in the third 
line.

Greg



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