[scribus] Getting a Text Frame's Page

[Craig Bradney]

On 14/04/2022, 03:37, "Matt Miller" <matt.miller at fastmail.com> wrote:

    On Wed, Apr 13, 2022, at 17:11, Neil Foster wrote:
    > I've solved many similar problems by parsing the document's .sla file
    > (which is just XML), when the Scripter API doesn't quite do what you need.
    >
    > Here's the basic gist to get the page number for a frame named "foo":
    >
    > import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
    > tree = ET.parse(getDocName())
    > root = tree.getroot()
    > frame = "foo"
    > element = root.find(f'./DOCUMENT/PAGEOBJECT[@ANNAME="{frame}"]')
    > page_number = element.get("OwnPage")

    That works great for me. Thanks.

    > For this to work, the object has to manually have been given a name, not
    > just leaving the auto-generated one, otherwise it's not stored in the .sla
    > file.
    >
    > On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 00:43, Matt Miller <matt.miller at fastmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >> From Python I want to find the page number that contains a certain text
    >> frame. I know the object name of the frame I'm looking for, but I don't
    >> know what page it's on. The only way I've thought of is to loop
    >> page-by-page over the document, and for each page use getAllObjects() to
    >> see if the frame is on that page. The documents are typically hundreds or
    >> even a couple thousand pages. I'm hoping for a faster way.
    >>
    >> From the GUI I see that if I click on an object to select it, then the
    >> page returned by currentPage() is what I'm looking for, but if I just call
    >> selectObject() then currentPage() doesn't seem to care.
    >>
    >> Thanks.
    >>
    
Hi

I have now added a getItemPageNumber() scripter function in 1.5.9.svn and 1.7.0.svn.

Thanks
Craig