[scribus] getAllText Sometimes Failing

[Gregory Pittman]

On 3/3/21 8:38 PM, Matt Miller wrote:
> I've attached a test case that seems to show that getAllText() is sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. When it fails it doesn't throw an error, but it just retrieves a string of length 1, instead of retrieving the actual text of the chain. I see this on 1.5.6.1 and 1.5.7.svn, in both Linux and Windows.
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> To run the test open the .sla and from the script menu execute chapter_heading_style.py.  The text frame name "debug" at the very top will contain the word "Error" if the getAllText() call in the script fails.  What I see is that it works fine the first time, then it fails on every subsequent try, until I alter something on the document.  For example, if I grab and move the "debug" text frame a bit then getAllText() will succeed once, and then fail repeatedly again.  Saving and reopening the document also causes the script to work again the first time.
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> Thanks.
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>   Matt Miller
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Hi Matt,

I have a hard time trying to figure out what you're trying to do with this script. Somewhere in your Scribus installation there should be a folder named samples.
On my Linux (Fedora), it's in /usr/share/scribus. Inside samples is a script named ExtractText.py, which uses getAllText() to collect all the text from a document and save it in a text file. This still works in 1.5.x.

Greg