I like the way markdown works. It is just a simple text to represent in graphic format. I'm curious if any similar one available for config file INI representations in UI format. Is there anything of that sort?
Example Config
[Game Config]
Player Name = "John"
//String
Type=Football
//Enumeration List
//Football
//Basketball
//Volleyball
Time in minutes = 45
//Integer number
//Game time in minutes
An UI representer would automatically represent in UI like below
Related
I’m trying to build a mogrt file for PR which will work just like the out of the box buzzwords effect in AE.
So far, I have set up some 20 text layers which are hidden and will work as text fields and I have main text layer with ‘buzzwords’ expression that feeds from text fields 1-20.
My knowledge of expressions is rather basic but I got it to work somehow by altering the first line of expression to
buzz_words = (thisComp.layer(“1”).text.sourceText +’|’+ thisComp.layer(“b”).text.sourceText+’|’)
I realise if I set this up for 20 text layers, this would be rather lengthy code, do you have any recommendations for making this a little bit less so?
Thanks in advance.
(raw code of Buzz words effect below)
buzz_words = "One|Two|Three|Four|Five|Six|Seven|Eight|Nine|Ten";
split_buzz_words_array = buzz_words.split('|');
buzz_frame_rate = effect("Buzz Frame Rate")(1);
buzz_frame = Math.floor(time * buzz_frame_rate);
buzz_index = buzz_frame % split_buzz_words_array.length;
split_buzz_words_array[buzz_index];
I have to work with a PDF form created by a person unknown to me. Why did the program with which the form was created (Word + PDF export?) split the term "Stunde" into "S", "t" and "unde" in line 6909 of the decoded PDF? There is no visual break between the three parts.
/TT1 1 Tf
11.04 0 0 11.04 59.16 476.1203 Tm
(Datum)Tj
/C2_1 1 Tf
<0003>Tj
/TT1 1 Tf
(der)Tj
0.424 -1.315 Td
(Tätigkeit)Tj
-0.0022 Tc 0 11.04 -11.04 0 261.24 437.7203 Tm
[(Ve)-4.6<7267fc74>-4.2(ungssat)-4.2(z)]TJ
/C2_1 1 Tf
0 Tc <0003>Tj
/TT1 1 Tf
-0.0021 Tc 0.935 -1.315 Td
[<2880>-6.1(/)-7.2(S)0.8(t)-4.1(unde)-4.5(\))]TJ % <<< the important line
0 Tc 11.04 0 0 11.04 340.92 468.8003 Tm
(Anlass/Art)Tj
/C2_1 1 Tf
resulting in
[]
To get the source code above, I decoded the PDF file as described here. I have no know-how concerning the PDF file format.
Background: I had to replace the word "Stunde", it drove me crazy to find the place where "Stunde" was written (in parts) within the source code, since no free PDF editor seems to be able to work with horizontal text without problems.
Academic Bonus questions: Is it possible to set the sum over a column as default value for a form field? (Modifiable; changed every time the column is changed.) Why was I able to replace "Stunde" with "Einsatz" without making the PDF file corrupt due to now irregular offsets?
Why did the program with which the form was created (Word + PDF export?) split the term "Stunde" into "S", "t" and "unde" in line 6909 of the decoded PDF?
As #gettalong mentioned in his answer, in your case this most likely has been done to apply kerning.
If you start looking into the outputs of some other PDF producers, you'll see that this export from Word actually is very unobtrusive in regard to splitting words:
there are PDF producers that draw each character individually after explicitly setting the text matrix for it, and
there also are PDF producers that have the width information for the characters of the used fonts set to zero and use the numbers in TJ instructions to forward the current text matrix between characters accordingly.
And this doesn't cover all the variants to be found, not by far...
Thus,
I had to replace the word "Stunde", it drove me crazy to find the place where "Stunde" was written (in parts) within the source code
in your case replacing actually was a fairly trivial task...
Is it possible to set the sum over a column as default value for a form field? (Modifiable; changed every time the column is changed.)
If all the column values in question are stored in form fields, you can use JavaScript to recalculate sums after form changes. To have it serve as "default" only, you can use some other (hidden) field for a flag whether the field has already been touched. Beware, though: JavaScript is not supported by all PDF viewers. Furthermore, the JavaScript object model for PDF is not specified in an independent (like ISO) specification but in an Adobe one which can make interpretation of the specification biased.
Why was I able to replace "Stunde" with "Einsatz" without making the PDF file corrupt due to now irregular offsets?
As we don't know how exactly you applied the changes, this obviously is hard to tell.
Most likely, though, you did corrupt the PDF and the PDF viewers you opened it in merely repair the corruption under the hood. There is a strong tendency in PDF viewers to do such under-the-hood repairs without informing the user; the result is that a large part of the PDFs in the wild actually being broken.
You don't see a visual break but the standard distance between "S", "t" and "unde" has been changed nonetheless. This is done by PDF writers that support e.g. kerning so that the word appear nicer. This is the reason why it is split that way.
In Windows image files can be tagged. These tags can be viewed and edited by right clicking on a file, clicking over to the Details tab, then clicking on the Tags property value cell.
I want to be able to read and write these tags using Python 3.
This is not EXIF data so EXIF solutions won't work. I believe it's part of the Windows Property System, but I can't find a reference in Dev Center. I looked into win32com.propsys and couldn't see anything in there either.
I wrote a program that does this once before, but I've since lost it, so I know it's possible. Previously I did it without pywin32, but any solution would be great. I think I used windll, but I can't remember.
Here is some sample code that's using the IPropertyStore interface through propsys:
import pythoncom
from win32com.propsys import propsys
from win32com.shell import shellcon
# get PROPERTYKEY for "System.Keywords"
pk = propsys.PSGetPropertyKeyFromName("System.Keywords")
# get property store for a given shell item (here a file)
ps = propsys.SHGetPropertyStoreFromParsingName("c:\\path\\myfile.jpg", None, shellcon.GPS_READWRITE, propsys.IID_IPropertyStore)
# read & print existing (or not) property value, System.Keywords type is an array of string
keywords = ps.GetValue(pk).GetValue()
print(keywords)
# build an array of string type PROPVARIANT
newValue = propsys.PROPVARIANTType(["hello", "world"], pythoncom.VT_VECTOR | pythoncom.VT_BSTR)
# write property
ps.SetValue(pk, newValue)
ps.Commit()
This code is pretty generic for any Windows property.
I'm using System.Keywords because that's what corresponds to jpeg's "tags" property that you see in the property sheet.
And the code works for jpeg and other formats for reading (GetValue) properties, but not all Windows codecs support property writing (SetValue), to it doesn't work for writing extended properties back to a .png for example.
I'm new to MQL and MetaTrader 4,but I want to read a .CSV-file and draw the values I've got into the chart of the Expert Advisor I'm working on.
Every .CSV file has the form of:
;EURUSD;1
DATE;TIME;HIGH;LOW;CLOSE;OPEN;VOLUME
2014.06.11;19:11:00;1.35272;1.35271;1.35271;1.35272;4
2014.06.11;19:14:00;1.35287;1.35282;1.35284;1.35283;30
Where the EURUSD part is the _Symbol, which another program generated, the 1 is the period, and all the other things are the data to draw.
Is there any form to do it inside an Expert Advisor, or do I need to use a Custom Indicator?
If that's the case, how can I do it in the simplest way?
P.S.: I read the data in a struct:
struct entry
{
string date;
string time;
double high;
double low;
double close;
double open;
int volume;
};
There are three principally different approaches available in MT4
First, one mayreshuffle data-cells into a compatible format T,O,H,L,C,V and import records using F2 History Center [Import] facility of the MetaTrader Terminal. One may create one's own Symbol-name so as to avoid name-colliding cases in the History Center database.
This way, one lets MT4 to create system-level illustrations of the TOHLCV-data, using the platform's underlying graphical engine.
Second,
one may ignore the underlying graphical engine andwork on a user-controlled GUI-overlayso as to implement an algorithm to read a CSV file and create a set of MQL4 GUI-objects algorithmically, based on the data contained in the said CSV file. An experience based decision whether to use an { ExpertAdvisor | CustomIndicator } would yield to use a Script for this purpose, due to it's one-shot processing.One shall realise, MT4 code-execution ecosystem does a specific context-binding between an MQL4-code ( which is being run ) and an MT4.Graph which does not allow a code launched on a GBPJPY MT4.Graph to process directly objects, related with FTSE.100 MT4.Graph. Yes, if asked to, one may implement a few add-ons and develop a sofisticated distributed processing model to make this work "accross" the said context-binding borders.
Third,
and for some cases the most interesting way is a file based approach, whereone may
pre-process CSV data in a similar way as in second option but not inside a live-MT4 process, but "beforehand" and
generate one's own Profile file, keeping an MT4 convention of placing & content of - ~/profiles/<aProfileNAME>/chart01.chr - ~/profiles/<aProfileNAME>/order.wnd
-~/profiles/lastprofile.ini, referring <aProfileNAME> on it's first row
This way, once the MT4 session starts, the pre-fabricated files are pilot-tape auto-loaded and displayed as one wishes to, Q.E.D.
A .chr file syntax sample:
<chart>
id=130394787628125000
comment=msLIB.TERMINAL: _______________2013.04.15 08:00:00 |cpuClockTIXs = 448765484 |
symbol=EURCHF
period=60
leftpos=6188
digits=4
scale=4
graph=1
fore=0
grid=0
volume=1
scroll=0
shift=1
ohlc=1
...
<window>
height=100
fixed_height=0
<indicator>
name=main
<object>
type=10
object_name=Fibo 16762
...
<object>
type=16
object_name=msLIB.RectangleOnEVENT
period_flags=0
create_time=1348596865
color=25600
style=0
weight=1
background=0
filling=0
selectable=1
hidden=0
zorder=0
time_0=1348592400
value_0=1.213992
time_1=1348624800
value_1=1.209486
ray=0
</object>
...
<object>
type=17
object_name=msLIB.TriangleMarker
period_flags=0
create_time=1348064992
color=17919
style=2
weight=1
background=0
filling=0
selectable=1
hidden=0
zorder=0
time_0=1348052400
value_0=1.213026
time_1=1348070400
value_1=1.213026
time_2=1348070400
value_2=1.210476
</object>
I have created syntax in SPSS that gives me 90 separate iterations of general linear model, each with slightly different variations fixed factors and covariates. In the output file, they are all just named as "General Linear Model." I have to then manually rename each analysis in the output, and I want to find syntax that will add a more specific name to each result that will help me identify it out of the other 89 results (e.g. "General Linear Model - Males Only: Mean by Gender w/ Weight covariate").
This is an example of one analysis from the syntax:
USE ALL.
COMPUTE filter_$=(Muscle = "BICEPS" & Subj = "S1" & SMU = 1 ).
VARIABLE LABELS filter_$ 'Muscle = "BICEPS" & Subj = "S1" & SMU = 1 (FILTER)'.
VALUE LABELS filter_$ 0 'Not Selected' 1 'Selected'.
FORMATS filter_$ (f1.0). FILTER BY filter_$.
EXECUTE.
GLM Frequency_Wk6 Frequency_Wk9
Frequency_Wk12 Frequency_Wk16
Frequency_Wk20
/WSFACTOR=Time 5 Polynomial
/METHOD=SSTYPE(3)
/PLOT=PROFILE(Time)
/EMMEANS=TABLES(Time)
/CRITERIA=ALPHA(.05)
/WSDESIGN=Time.
I am looking for syntax to add to this that will name this analysis as: "S1, SMU1 BICEPS, GLM" Not to name the whole output file, but each analysis within the output so I don't have to do it one-by-one. I have over 200 iterations at times that come out in a single output file, and renaming them individually within the output file is taking too much time.
Making an assumption that you are exporting the models to Excel (please clarify otherwise).
There is an undocumented command (OUTPUT COMMENT TEXT) that you can utilize here, though there is also a custom extension TEXT also designed to achieve the same but that would need to be explicitly downloaded via:
Utilities-->Extension Bundles-->Download And Install Extension Bundles--->TEXT
You can use OUTPUT COMMENT TEXT to assign a title/descriptive text just before the output of the GLM model (in the example below I have used FREQUENCIES as an example).
get file="C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\23\Samples\English\Employee data.sav".
oms /select all /if commands=['output comment' 'frequencies'] subtypes=['comment' 'frequencies']
/destination format=xlsx outfile='C:\Temp\ExportOutput.xlsx' /tag='ExportOutput'.
output comment text="##Model##: This is a long/descriptive title to help me identify the next model that is to be run - jobcat".
freq jobcat.
output comment text="##Model##: This is a long/descriptive title to help me identify the next model that is to be run - gender".
freq gender.
output comment text="##Model##: This is a long/descriptive title to help me identify the next model that is to be run - minority".
freq minority.
omsend tag=['ExportOutput'].
You could use TITLE command here also but it is limited to only 60 characters.
You would have to change the OMS tags appropriately if using TITLE or TEXT.
Edit:
Given the OP wants to actually add a title to the left hand pane in the output viewer, a solution for this is as follows (credit to Albert-Jan Roskam for the Python code):
First save the python file "editTitles.py" to a valid Python search path (for example (for me anyway): "C:\ProgramData\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\23\extensions")
#editTitles.py
import tempfile, os, sys
import SpssClient
def _titleToPane():
"""See titleToPane(). This function does the actual job"""
outputDoc = SpssClient.GetDesignatedOutputDoc()
outputItemList = outputDoc.GetOutputItems()
textFormat = SpssClient.DocExportFormat.SpssFormatText
filename = tempfile.mktemp() + ".txt"
for index in range(outputItemList.Size()):
outputItem = outputItemList.GetItemAt(index)
if outputItem.GetDescription() == u"Page Title":
outputItem.ExportToDocument(filename, textFormat)
with open(filename) as f:
outputItem.SetDescription(f.read().rstrip())
os.remove(filename)
return outputDoc
def titleToPane(spv=None):
"""Copy the contents of the TITLE command of the designated output document
to the left output viewer pane"""
try:
outputDoc = None
SpssClient.StartClient()
if spv:
SpssClient.OpenOutputDoc(spv)
outputDoc = _titleToPane()
if spv and outputDoc:
outputDoc.SaveAs(spv)
except:
print "Error filling TITLE in Output Viewer [%s]" % sys.exc_info()[1]
finally:
SpssClient.StopClient()
Re-start SPSS Statistics and run below as a test:
get file="C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\23\Samples\English\Employee data.sav".
title="##Model##: jobcat".
freq jobcat.
title="##Model##: gender".
freq gender.
title="##Model##: minority".
freq minority.
begin program.
import editTitles
editTitles.titleToPane()
end program.
The TITLE command will initially add a title to main output viewer (right hand side) but then the python code will transfer that text to the left hand pane output tree structure. As mentioned already, note TITLE is capped to 60 characters only, a warning will be triggered to highlight this also.
This editTitles.py approach is the closest you are going to get to include a descriptive title to identify each model. To replace the actual title "General Linear Model." with a custom title would require scripting knowledge and would involve a lot more code. This is a simpler alternative approach. Python integration required for this to work.
Also consider using:
SPLIT FILE SEPARATE BY <list of filter variables>.
This will automatically produce filter labels in the left hand pane.
This is easy to use for mutually exclusive filters but even if you have overlapping filters you can re-run multiple times (and have filters applied to get as close to your desired set of results).
For example:
get file="C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\23\Samples\English\Employee data.sav".
sort cases by jobcat minority.
split file separate by jobcat minority.
freq educ.
split file off.