I'm planning to use Mono.Addins in my C#/.NET project.
For that, I've read the Programming Guide and Reference Manual presented in codeplex.com, downloaded the latest version of source code from github.com, and successfully built all the samples included in the source package. However, whether the online documents or sample projects, all try to demonstrate how to extend an AddinHost by creating new instances of an ExtensionNode. There seems to miss something about how to retrieve and process data from the AddinHost.
For example, say I have a text editor, which processes RTF document, and I want to provide the possibility for addins to find/replace the document with its own way (For example, Regex / Forward / Backward / Whole document / Current Line...), so the addin need to get the content from AddinHost first. This is the question I need an answer for.
Any ideas?
If I understood well you have to maintain a reference to the RTF document, I think that providing it inside an initialization code for your plugin could be a way to obtain it.
Or you can have a sort of "IFindReplaceAddin" with a method, say "FindReplace", that accepts the RTF document as argument and returns the elaborated document.
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I've been given the task of researching whether one can use Powershell to automate the managing of References in VB6 application and then compile it's projects afterwards.
There are 3 projects. I requirement is to remove a specific reference in each project. Then, compile projects from bottom up (server > client > interface) and add reference back in along the way. (remove references, compile server.dll >add client reference to server.dll, compile client.dll > add interface reference to client.dll, compile interface.exe)
I'm thinking no, but I was still given the task of finding out for sure. Of course, where does one go to find this out? Why here of course, StackOverflow.
References are stored in the project .VBP files which are just text files. A given reference takes up exactly one line of the file.
For example, here is a reference to DAO database components:
Reference=*\G{00025E01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}#5.0#0#C:\WINDOWS\SysWow64\dao360.dll#Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library
The most important info is everything to the left of the path which contains the GUID (i.e., the unique identifier of the library, more or less). The filespec and description text are unimportant as VB6 will update that to whatever it finds in the registry for the referenced DLL.
An alternate form of reference is for GUI controls, such as:
Object={BDC217C8-ED16-11CD-956C-0000C04E4C0A}#1.1#0; tabctl32.ocx
which for whatever reason never seem to have a path anyway. Most likely you will not need to modify this type of reference, because it would almost certainly break forms in the project which rely on them.
So in your Powershell script, the key task would be to either add or remove the individual reference lines mentioned in the question. Unless you are using no form of binary compatibility, the GUID will remain stable. Therefore, you could essentially hardcode the strings you need to add/remove.
Aside from all that, its worth thinking through why you need to take this approach at all. Normally to build a VB6 solution it is totally unnecessary to add/remove references along the way. Also depending on your choice of deployment techniques, you are probably using either project or binary compatibility which tends to keep the references stable.
Lastly, I'll mention that there are existing tools such as Kinook's Visual Build Pro which already know how to build groups of VB6 projects and if using a 3rd party tool like that is an option, could save you a lot of work.
I am using a function for sorting arrays inside my calc document, which is supplied via an extension. However, transferring the file to a different system, where the extension isn't installed, breaks the function. Since the file is designed to be shared with many other users, it is impractical to instruct each of them to install the necessary extension individually.
Is there a way to embed/link the function supplied by the extensions to the .ods-file itself in such a way that the function wont break on file transfer?
When I tried to embed an add-in into a document by modifying manifest.xml, the add-in was ignored. Also, I ran into other limitations of embedding, such as not allowing importing from a pythonpath folder.
The documentation is rather difficult, but these two links perhaps support my conclusion:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Spreadsheets/Spreadsheet_Add-Ins
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/WritingUNO/Deployment_Options_for_Components
So it looks like the possibilities are to either require people to install the extension, or use a user-defined function instead of an add-in. It should be possible to embed a UDF in a document.
I want to call the API of uima-text-segmenter https://code.google.com/p/uima-text-segmenter/source/browse/trunk/INSTALL?r=22 to run an example.
But I don`t know how to call the API...
the readme said,
With the DocumentAnalyzer, run the following descriptor
`desc/textSegmenter/wst-snowball-C99-JTextTilingAAE.xml` by taking the
uima-examples data as input.
Could anyone give me some code which could be run directly in main func for example?
Thanks a lot!
Long answer:
The link describes how you would set up the application from within the Eclipse UIMA environment. This sort of set-up is typically targeted at subject matter specialists with little or no coding experience. It allows them to work (relatively fast) with UIMA in a declarative way: all data structures and analysis engines (computing blocks within UIMA) are declared in xml (with a GUI on top of it), after which the framework takes care of the rest. In this scenario, you would typically run a UIMA pipeline using a run configuration from within Eclipse (or the included UIMA pipeline runner application). Luckily, UIMA allows you to do exactly the same from code, but I would recommend using UIMAFit (http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/tools.uimafit.book.html#d5e137) for this purpose instead of of UIMA, as it bundles lots of useful things and coding shortcuts.
Short answer:
Using UIMAFit, you can call Factory methods that create CollectionReader (read input), AnalysisEngine (process input) and Consumer objects (write/do other stuff) from (third-party provided) XML files. Use these methods to construct your pipeline and the SimplePipeline class to run it. To extract the data you need, you would manipulate the CAS object (containing your data) in a Consumer object, possibly with a callback. You could also do this in a Analysis Engine object. I recommend using DKPro's FeaturePathFactory (https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-core-asl/source/browse/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core-asl/trunk/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.dkpro.core.api.featurepath-asl/src/main/java/de/tudarmstadt/ukp/dkpro/core/api/featurepath/FeaturePathFactory.java?spec=svn1811&r=1811) to quickly access the feature you are after.
Code examples:
http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/tools.uimafit.book.html#d5e137 contains examples, but they all go in the opposite direction (class objects are used in the factory methods, instead of XML files - XML is generated from these classes). Take a look at the UIMAFit API to find the method you need, AnalysisEngineDescription from XML for example: http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-current/api/org/apache/uima/fit/factory/AnalysisEngineFactory.html#createEngineDescriptionFromPath-java.lang.String-java.lang.Object...-
I'm working on some function which should help the user when working with (la)tex documents. In order to provide some additional information to the user I need to get a list of all (la)tex files that belong to the document (read: compiled document) the user is currently working on. AUCTeX/RefTeX has already the facilities in place to define a master file on which all children files depend and from the looks of it there seems to be some internal list of files that belong to the current document.
However I don't find the appropriate piece of code or function to access this list... I don't even find the list, to be honest. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
You probably want to use (reftex-all-document-files). I can't remember the details of how to use it, but in tex-mode.el I ended up checking (and (fboundp 'reftex-scanning-info-available-p) (reftex-scanning-info-available-p)) before calling that function.
My attorney gave me a 10 page contract that we need to fill in the blanks with the client name, pricing etc and then provide the client with a PDF or equivalent of the contract.
I have looked at PDF::Create but it looks like I would have to create the entire document through code, not just the the placeholders.
CAM::PDF, PDF::API2 can modify existing documents. Your question is not very specific, so no code example.
I would look into using a templating system and LaTeX rather than making the pdf by hand.