I have a form in my app that the user fills out, then the app needs to write what the user entered into a .java file that is then sent to the user. Basically, I'm making a mobile Java IDE. Please help! I need to know how to append text into certain locations in the file. Excuse me if this doesn't make sense, just ask me what part is confusing, I might be able to explain it better.
You are probably a lot better off storing all your text in a database, where you can easily insert new text at any location.
Actually storing the text in a file is problematic - appending is easy, you just open the file, seek to the end, and then write new text. But you really want arbitrary insertion of text which means seeking to that point in the file, reading in the rest of the file, writing out your new data, then writing out the old remainder of the file...
If you store all the text in a database you can organize it to make it easy to insert new text, probably append some useful metadata about the text, and when the user asks to email the file simply write everything you have out to a file in temporary storage and send that (or create the text in memory and send it as NSData).
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I want to make a simple database where every recieved files will be stored in the same dump-file along with regular text data. I dont want to bother with storing them as uniq files in some folder on my server cos it looks very complicated. So can i convert any possible file formats (pictures, music, videos, archives etc.) into an utf8 string and just put it in a text file without any losses? Im sure i can open any file in notepad without exception but for some reason this operation is very slow and im not sure that notepad using exactly utf8 always so cant answer by myself.
I was trying to google it but seems like im the first crazy person with such an idea.
I want to build a simple script that may be useful for others as well, but I have only very basic programming knowledge and can't do it myself without learning how to write powershell scripts from scratch.
What this script is supposed to do is, open an INI file (really just a txt), look for a variable with an assigned value and replace that value from a txt hosted on GitHub, save and then run a program.
This is for the tracker list of qBittorrent, since that feature still hasn't been implemented and the only other script that I could find that does this is for linux and mac, there seem to be none for windows.
The basic idea is this:
get-content "c:\users\[user]\appdata\roaming\qbittorrent\qbittorrent.ini"
# This is where pseudo code starts
get file from "[github-link.txt]"
save file to cache # keeping it is useless as it gets updated daily
find variable "Session\AdditionalTrackers=" in qbittorrent.ini
replace value of variable with content of cached file # this is what I struggle with most when looking for example code. Everything I could find specified the exact string that needed replacing, which in this case is quite long and may change with every update of the file.
overwrite original file
launch program qbittorrent.exe
end script
Conveniently or most likely deliberately all (most) of the tracker lists on GitHub are already formatted in a way that they can be directly pasted into the file without having to worry about formatting. Example.
I can totally understand if nobody wants to do the work, but I would greatly appreciate it and possibly others that are looking for a stopgap for the lacking feature.
If this already exists, go ahead and call me an idiot and while you're at it drop a link ;)
I just found a little tool called Power Automate and it pretty much does what I was looking for. It's not quite as elegant as a single click script but it does the job. Sadly I can't share the "flow" I built because, well, there is no option for it - thanks Microsoft. So, I'll try my best to write it out.
Not quite a "solution" but pretty to close to it.
Here is the "flow":
get file from web // from github for example
read text from file // read downloaded .txt file
read text from file // read qBittorrent.ini
crop text // crop between flags in qBittorrent.ini use "Session\AdditionalTrackers=" as start and "Session\GlobalMaxRatio=" as end and save to cropVar2
crop text // crop before flag use "Session\AdditionalTrackers=" as flag and save to cropVar1
crop text // crop after flag use cropVar2 as flag and save to cropVar3
replace text // replace cropVar2 with content of downloaded file and save to cropVar2
write text to file // write cropVar1,cropVar2,cropVar3
end flow
Keep in mind that any changes to the qBittorrent.ini may change the order of the entries. Which means you have to check if it's still correct after every update and after every change you make in the options. This is a massive cludge after all...
You can input fail saves so that you won't break anything if the order changed.
I'm not sure whether this is the best approach for this or whether I perhaps should ask the question more clearer.
What I want to do is to create an additional file output - e.g. if the user uses Word to create a description consisting of known tags, I want to be able to save this as bbcode.
Now I do have an idea of how to do this, but is there a way to say add another file format to the "Save file"-dialog box and have it run a parser and file writer, that'd read the current document and export it using known bbcode-tags (that perhaps would be adjustable from some configuration window)?
The result would be a file containing bbcode as well as the text information that the user has entered.
How would I hook up my addin to the file output dialog? Is there a way to do this? I'm not sure it's custom XML since I won't be using the XML at all.
Thanks in advance and please excuse my poor English.
Edit: after having a look at the Word 2010 AddIn-project, I figured, that I'm looking for a way to define my own "export"-format. I'd like to export the BBCode to a .txt (or even .bbcode) file. The Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdExportFormat seems to have its own fixed enumeration. Is there a way to add an export-format?
There is some code for this here:
phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=395554
This question is somewhat of a long shot, but I've spent hours on it to no avail. I have some code that generates an email file on a webserver, and allows the user to download that email and open it in Outlook. From here, they can make various manual changes to the email before they send it to a bunch of people.
Right now, I generate a .OFT file, which is basically an email template. What I want to do is generate a .MSG file, which is an actual email. From a binary point of view, it seems these file formats are identical. They have the same Stream IDs and properties and stuff.
My approach was to first create a blank email message in Outlook and then just save it to a file called Base.oft. In my code, I open the document and modify Stream ID __substg1.0_1013001E which is the ID for the HTML email body. I then save the file and write it out to the cilent. This works perfectly.
I tried the same approach with the MSG format. I created a blank email message, saved it as Base.msg, and modify the same Stream ID. If I look at the resulting file, the new body is actually in there and saved. However, if I open the email, the body is still blank.
What's even weirder is if I type in a body in Outlook and save that to the base file, I can see that body under stream 0_1013001E. If I then modify that stream with a different body, I can verify the new body is indeed saved in the file, but if I open the message in Outlook, I see the old, original body. It's as if the email body is stored in a different place in the file for the .MSG format, however I've looked through each stream and cannot find anything else that looks like it could be an email body.
Perhaps .MSG files are encrypted, or their bodies are stored in some proprietary binary format unlike .OFT files? Hopefully someone has some insight on this, as I scoured the Internet and found basically nothing on these formats.
Update:
It seems the .MSG format stores the body in Stream ID __substg1.0_10090102 - Which is encoded in some binary form (not sure what.) If I delete the stream (or set it to a single \0, the file becomes corrupt.
First of all, to find more information on this and related topics, move away from raw substream numbers and google for the corresponding MAPI properties. For example, 1013 is PR_HTML and 1009 is PR_RTF_COMPRESSED. MAPI has ways of synching the body from one format to the other.
See this article on MSDN for a good overview of all content-related MAPI properties (i.e. the different "streams" inside the .MSG file).
To write PR_RTF_COMPRESSED, wrap the stream inside WrapCompressedStream. On the other hand, in your particular situation you might want to avoid the MAPI-dependencies in your code, so maybe you're better off finding the PR_STORE_SUPPORT_MASK and setting the STORE_UNCOMPRESSED_RTF bit. This will allow you to use straight RTF in the PR_RTF_COMPRESSED substream. Or Outlooks fancy html-wrapped-in-rtf, if you are feeling brave.
None of this stuff is for the faint of heart, but seeing how you are already handing raw .MSG substream writing, I'm guessing it would be feasible.
When it comes to the format, there is no difference.
the only difference is that OFT files have CLSID_TemplateMessage ({0006F046-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}) as the storage class (WriteClassStg), while MSG files use CLSID_MailMessage ({00020D0B-0000-0000-C000-000000000046})
An iPhone app which I am creating generates reports from a Core Data database as a CSV file, which can then be emailed so that the user may use that data elsewhere outside of the app. I would also like to offer the ability to generate the same reports as a PDF file (of course, with nicer formatting) allowing the user to immediately print the report rather than having to jump through several hoops as with the CSV file - i.e. open in another application (e.g. Excel, Numbers) then reformat the columns (so they are wide enough for printing), bold the headings, etc.
Essentially, I want to provide the PDF file so that the user is immediately given a nicely formatted report, and they only need to export the CSV file if they wish to do data manipulation and need a format which is editable.
I was thinking that the easiest method would be taking the CSV file and the converting this into a PDF file, which would be the same as the CSV except would incorporate nicer formatting (such as a tabular layout) rather than the simple comma-separated format of the CSV file. I have been unable to find any ready-made classes for this purpose (to avoid reinventing the wheel) and I am unsure how to approach this since I have limited experience with this aspect of the SDK. Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.
You have two different problems:
Read CSV data into some structure in memory
Turn some structure in memory into a PDF
Aaron Saunders has posted some links for step 2, so here's a link for step 1:
http://github.com/davedelong/CHCSVParser
That's a CSV parser I wrote that will turn your CSV file into an NSArray of NSArrays of NSStrings.