Currently I am trying to write some Text to Word using ActiveX and Matlab. This file: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9112-writetowordfrommatlab
helped me a lot. But I can't figure out how to insert an Hyperlink to Word.
e.g. I want to add the the word "test" connected with "www.test.de".
I've tried this:
ActXWord = actxserver('Word.Application');
ActXWord.Visible = true;
trace(ActXWord.Visible);
word_handle = invoke(ActXWord.Documents,'Add');
ActXWord.ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add('test','www.test.de');
and also some other combinations with the
ActXWord.ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add
method. But Matlab doesn't know the .Add method. I found some Excel examples which are working like this, but for Word it doesn't work. Somebody has an idea whats the problem could be?
Your issue is not really related to MATLAB. You are not calling the Add method of the ActiveX component correctly.
This should work:
link = 'www.test.de';
ActXWord.ActiveDocument.Content.InsertAfter(link);
ActXWord.ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add(word_handle.Range(0, length(link)), link);
Anyway, this is not related to MATLAB; for more information you should refer to MS Word VBA reference.
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I'm working on a C#/VSTO application for automate some tasks in MS Word. I'm trying to change the start number of a numbered list using a ListTemplate. I've seen several examples of accessing a ListTemplate like this:
ListTemplate template =
app.ListGalleries[WdListGalleryType.wdNumberGallery].ListTemplates.get_Item(ref n);
However, Visual Studio doesn't recognize get_Item() as a method for ListTemplates. Other methods of ListTemplates are listed in the VS popup so I'm not sure what the issue is? How do I go about referencing a ListTemplate? Thanks!
When I check in VSTO there is no get_Item for ListTemplates. Instead, one uses the index. For example
ListTemplate template =app.ListGalleries[Word.WdListGalleryType.wdNumberGallery].ListTemplates[Word.WdListGalleryType.wdNumberGallery];
I have been trying to find out why my FPDF cell alignment isn't working. Below is the code I am using. This is the result of the below code. When the below code outputs the pdf, the text is written outside the right side of the cell. I have a similar program (on the same system and using the same FPDF files) using the same logic and it works fine. I have looked online for other people having this issue but wasn't able to produce any useful results.
function ShowPDF()
{
require_once('FPDF/fpdf.php');
$pdf = new FPDF();
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(false);
$pdf->SetFontSize(11);
$pdf->SetTextColor(0,0,0);
$TOTALWITH = 400000;
$pdf->Cell(135,15,"Test",1,1,"R",false);
$pdf->Output("Alignment.pdf", 'I');
}
Does anyone know of anything that might cause or fix this issue?
Thank you,
Ernie
Edit: Image displaying output.
I'm still trying to learn iText and have a few of the concepts down. However I can't figure out what TabStop is or how to use it. My particular problem is that I want to fill the end of all paragraphs with a bunch of dashes. I believe this is called a TabStop and I see the class in the itext jar but I have no clue on how to use it. I must be searching the wrong thing on google, but I've come up with nothing. The iText in Action book also doesnt seem to even know of the existance of this class so any help is much appreciated!
Please take a look at the ChunkTest class in iText's test suite. It contains several use cases of the tab stop functionality. For instance:
java.util.List<TabStop> tabStopsList = new ArrayList<TabStop>();
tabStopsList.add(new TabStop(100, new DottedLineSeparator()));
tabStopsList.add(new TabStop(200, new LineSeparator(), TabStop.Alignment.CENTER));
tabStopsList.add(new TabStop(300, new DottedLineSeparator(), TabStop.Alignment.RIGHT));
p = new Paragraph(new Chunk("Hello world", f));
p.setTabSettings(new TabSettings(tabStopsList, 50));
addTabs(p, f, 0, "la|la");
ct.addElement(p);
The TabStop functionality was introduced after the iText in Action books were written. They'll be documented in one of the new books.
For another example, see http://developers.itextpdf.com/examples/itext-building-blocks/tabbing-examples
Say I've written a class in a package, called mypackage.myclass. I've written my own HTML documentation for the package and the class, and have included this within the MATLAB help browser as described in the MATLAB documentation.
I can display this HTML documentation by using the help browser to navigate directly to it, but typing doc mypackage.myclass does not display it; instead it displays some HTML documentation that is auto-generated by helpwin (which is a nice feature, but not what I want - the auto-generated documentation is too techy for my users).
How can I force doc to display my documentation, rather than the auto-generated documentation?
Equivalently:
When you run doc docTopic, inside the doc command the Java class com.mathworks.mlservices.MLHelpServices.showReferencePage(docTopic) gets called. If a reference page for docTopic exists, it displays it and returns a success value. If a reference page doesn't exist, it returns a failure value, which then causes helpwin(docTopic) to get called. Somewhere there must be some catalog that connects values of docTopic with individual reference HTML files. How can I fiddle with that catalog - or can I create one for my package?
MathWorkers and #Yair, please give me enough undocumented rope to hang myself with :)
As far as I know this is not possible and not intended by MathWorks. I don't know of an undocumented way of doing this either. As far as I remember the keywords for doc are hard-coded somewhere.
Depending on your setup you can try the following: Prepare your own doc command that uses web(..., '-helpbrowser') to display HTML pages in MATLAB's help browser:
function doc(topic)
my_topics = {
'foo', 'foo.html'
'bar', 'bar/help/intro.html'
};
for i = 1 : size(my_topics, 1)
if strcmpi(topic, my_topics{i, 1})
web(my_topics{i, 2}, '-helpbrowser');
return;
end
end
% Fall back to MATLAB's doc. Note that our doc shadows MATLAB's doc.
docs = which('doc', '-all');
old_dir = cd();
c = onCleanup(#() cd(old_dir));
cd(fileparts(docs{2}));
doc(topic);
end
If you put that function in a file doc.m and put the corresponding directory at the beginning of the MATLAB path (see help addpath) then it will be called instead of the built-in doc.
Of course you could use some other place to store your custom doc mapping (a file, for instance) or use some kind of dynamic lookup scheme.
UPDATE: As of MATLAB R2012b, the '-helpbrowser' option of web is undocumented. This is probably related to the GUI changes in that MATLAB version, which also include the help browser. web(..., '-helpbrowser') still works as intended, but that may change in future versions of MATLAB. As far as I know, there is no documented way of opening any HTML page in the help browser in R2012b.
Hello I'm looking for a way to search for a word in a word doc and add an endnote(special type of footnote) with a definition of the word as the endnote text. This would allow me to hover over that word and then the definition would pop up like a tool tip.
I know i need to use reflection, but i'm new to the whole reflection thing and all my attempts have fallen flat.
I've found the reference for endnotes here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.word.endnotes.add%28office.11%29.aspx
I've tried loading C:\WINDOWS\Assembly\Gac\Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word\11.0.0.0__71e9bce111e9429c\Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.dll using reflection, but i don't know what to do once i've loaded it. When i try to create an new-object, it still asks me if i've loaded the appropriate dll.
Additionally i tried to fix the problem with a diff method by loading the MS word application as a comobject, but i wasn't able to figure out how to select the text i wanted and then set and endnote.
Any suggestions for this would be greatly appreciated!
-Skyler
I am not too familiar with the Word object model, but if you can handle that part I can tell you how to get an instance of Word running and automated. It's quite simple actually.
$Application = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application
$Application.Visible = $true
$Document = $Application.Documents.Add()
The key is Visible = $true otherwise it will be running but hidden. Now you can use all the methods of the Word Application object to create a new doc and automate it. Now if you're using Word 2007's docx format, you can investigate ZIP file extraction cmdlets and access the xml directly in the word doc. But dealing with namespaces in XML is a hassle and may not be as straightforward.
Word Object Model Stuff
ScriptingGuy recently posted a solution to this: http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/10/14/hey-scripting-guy-october-14-2009.aspx