I want to display some informations of a binary file in vs code.
Is it possible to write an extension for vs code, such that when selecting that file in the Explorer (or opening it directly) you see some text extracted from the binary file by that extension?
So the core functionality of that extension would be (simplified) a binary to text converter.
Any suggestions?
The VS Code team member has confirmed they do not have support for registering content providers for binary files in my issue.
I've inspected the workspace.onDidOpenTextDocument and window.onDidChangeActiveTextEditor APIs, but neither seems to be called when opening binary files.
Is there a way to display fallback content using registerTextDocumentContentProvider (or otherwise) for binary files?
That's why these types all carry Text in their names, TextEditor, TextDocument, etc. They can only handle textual, not binary data ;-)
No explanation as to why this works for PDFs, probably special-cased.
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I'm working on a flutter desktop app which should (according to my plan) has the ability to open C/C++ header files (as a plain text) and parse the source code and find all structures and get theirs properties, is there any existing package fits my need, or, maybe I should go with regex instead?
My application writes files known as ".nec", which are simply text files. I'd like them to open in my app if it's on the machine, or open in the default text editor if it's not.
There are surprisingly few examples of how to set these things in Apple's documentation. Do I simply set the MIME type to text/plain, or are there other things I should do as well?
Most computers / mobile devices will use the file extension to determine the file type rather than read the file headers so if you are using a custom file extension then the device won't know which application handles that file.
If you want your applications documents to opened by something outside of your application you will need to use a standard format for your file type.
For textual documents the most common are likely to be .txt, .rtf and .doc
If your documents are just plain text without any formatting (like a log file) then you would be best using .txt, you shouldn't need to change much (if anything) to write in this format.
After a quick google of the file extension .nec I found this:
NEC files are Uncommon Files primarily associated with Unknown Apple II File (found on Golden Orchard Apple II CD Rom).
NEC files are also associated with NEC JIS Encoded File, PIMS Notes for Windows CE Audio Record File (Nacetech Co. Ltd.) and FileViewPro.
If one of your files were to be (for example) emailed to a windows user, Windows would not know that this is a simple text file and would likely prompt the user to search online for a program that handles this file extension.
Not an answer as such, but as to date you don't have one here are some things to explore in the hope it is useful.
The old style type and creator of Mac OS have just about gone, first to replaced by just file extensions, and now there are UTIs.
If you read Apple's Uniform Type Identifier Concepts you will see your app can declare a UTI, say com.markowitz.nectext, which conforms to the standard UTI public.text. Now a UTI helps the Finder (Launch Services) locate the app to open a file, you could explore what happens if there is no such app available but the UTI declares it conforms to public.text.
[Just seen your comment on another answer re: right-clicking. At a guess this would be the UTI above.]
Another avenue to explore, getting into the undocumented side of OS X, is how the Finder's "Get Info" handles setting the "Open With" preference on a file. Try setting a plain text file to open in your app, then use the xattr -l <file> in the Terminal to see what was done. You should see an extended attribute com.apple.LaunchServices.OpenWith whose value looks like some form of plist.
Just remember this is undocumented, the API used by the Finder is private, but then its just an extended attribute...
Have fun.
I have a .pot file that I wish to translate to a native language and get the final .po file. At this moment, the only plausible option that I have is to open the set of .pot files in a text editor and convert each phrase to the native language.
I would like to know if this can be automated by using some tool/software . I tried POEDIT (in Windows) for converting my .pot file to the native language (Hindi) but it could not perform a single translation. Please provide some inputs.
Thanks
You can use Translator Toolkit provided by Google.
https://translate.google.com/toolkit
(you need a Google account)
Before uploading your file you have to change the file extension to .po so google can accept it.
After translation; download the translated file and use your editor of choice to manage and optimize your translations.
We are developing a Java application that needs to programmatically convert .rtf, .doc and .docx files to PDF files.
Formatting is important to us, so we need the page numbers to be the same between a source file and a target PDF file, and the contents of each page being the same as the original file.
We have tried out open source solutions, such as JODConverter to invoke a LibreOffice of OpenOffice installation, Docx4j and XDocReport. The best formatting was achieved with LibreOffice. However, even in that case, the pages were different (for example, a 87-page .rtf file results in an 80-page PDF file).
So, we think that the ideal way to make the conversion would be to somehow invoke Microsoft Word though our Java application, and make the conversion with it. That would produce PDF files that have the same formatting as the original files.
Is this possible in any of the following ways:
An API that is directly invokeable through Java?
An API that is invokeable through a .Net language and we would use that with something like JACOB?
A 3rd party library that uses a Microsoft Word installation under the hood (something like JODConverter for Word)?
A CLI interface supported by Word (relevant question)?
Something else?
I need to write pure Msword file in objective C.
I have been writing .txt file till now but when i write a .doc file i'm facing encoding issues with all encoding schemes.
Microsoft provide library in visual studio to play with .doc files which is not available in Xcode.
So is there any way to make it happen?
You can extract the code from e.g. OpenOffice project. This is C++ code, but you can use a wrapper around. This will be a lot of work.
If it's an option for you:
On the server use Microsft VSTO to create a document (doc,els,ppt...) using ServerDocument class and passing the data that you collect on the client. Then you download that file and your phone.
Sounds like you are trying to port MS word. Basically u need to write XML files and zip them in a particular manner. Check out the markup specification here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313105%28office.12%29.aspx
if it's .docx, you may compose an XML file and rename it. With .doc you may have to do it with your own wrapper.