[scribus] ExtractText script goes zombie

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Fri Jun 16 01:07:32 UTC 2017


On 06/15/2017 03:42 PM, ZASKE Martin wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> just wrapping up our book, doing final tests. I was glad that the old
> sample scripts are still being included in version 1.5.3.
> 
> This one is very useful for us:
> 
> "C:\Program Files\Scribus 1.5.3\share\samples\ExtractText.py"
> 

> 
> While writing this e-mail, I had this deja-vu and looked through my own
> notes: Seems I had this problem before and even fixed it:
> 
> The old syntax was this:
>     scribus.messageBox("Finished", endmessage,icon=0,button1=1)
> 
> Now this works on my Windows:
> 
>     endmessage = textfile + " était crée"
>     scribus.messageBox("Resumé", endmessage, scribus.ICON_INFORMATION,
> scribus.BUTTON_OK)
> 

Jean has fixed this. I actually had semi-fixed this before, but
apparently missed the other occurrence. This old syntax of "icon=0" and
so on doesn't work anymore.
Basically, if you find a freezing dialog in a script in Scribus that
used to work, that's the likely problem. Thanks for reporting, Martin.

Greg



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