Setting focus is simple enough: node.focus(). I've had limited success looking at other answers. I can set the cursor at either the beginning or end, or I can select the whole contents with this code in chrome:
// if start==0 means the beginning, start===1 means the end
function setSelection(node, start, length) {
var range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(node, start);
range.setEnd(node, length);
//range.collapse(true);
var selection = getSelection()
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
}
So the question is: how can I set the cursor more granularly, say at character 2. Also, how can I set the selection, for example from character 2 to character 5?
MDN tells me that Range.setStart has different behavior for Text, Comment, or CDATASection nodes than other nodes. If I could get setStart to treat a div like a Text node, I think my problem might be solved.
Anyone have any ideas?
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I would like to write a snippet in VS Code that writes a "switch" expression (in Javascript), but one where I can define the number of cases.
Currently there is a snippet that produces the outline of a switch expression with 1 case, and allows you to tab into the condition, case name, and the code contained within.
I want to be able to type "switch5" ("5" being any number) and a switch with 5 cases to be created, where I can tab through the relevant code within.
I know the snippets are written in a JSON file, can I include such conditional logic in this, or is it not possible?
Thanks!
The short answer is that you cannot do that kind of thing in a standard vscode snippet because it cannot dynamically evaluate any input outside of its designated variables with some limited workarounds like I'll mention next.
You might - I and others have written answers on SO about his - type your various case values first and then trigger a snippet tat would transform them into a switch statement. It is sort of doing it backwords but it might be possible.
There are extensions, however, that do allow you to evaluate javascript right in a snippet or setting and output the result. macro-commander is one such extension. I'll show another simpler extension doing what you want: HyperSnips.
In your javascript.hsnips:
snippet `switch(\d)` "add number of cases to a switch statement" A
``
let numCases = Number(m[1]) // 'm' is an array of regex capture groups
let caseString = ''
if (numCases) { // if not 'switch0'
let tabStopNum = 1
caseString = `switch (\${${tabStopNum++}:key}) {\n`
for (let index = 0; index < m[1]; index++) {
caseString += `\tcase \${${tabStopNum++}:value}:\n\t\t\$${tabStopNum++}\n`
caseString += '\t\tbreak;\n\n'
}
caseString += '\tdefault:\n'
caseString += '\t\tbreak;\n}\n'
}
rv = `${caseString}` // return value
``
endsnippet
The trickiest part was getting the unknown number of tabstops to work correctly. This is how I did it:
\${${tabStopNum++}:key}
which will resolve to ${n:defaultValue} where n gets incremented every time a tabstop is inserted. And :defaultValue is an optional default value to that tabstop. If you don't need a defaultValue just use \$${tabStopNum++} there.
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/62562886/836330 for more info on how to set up HyperSnips.
I wonder how to set the text "Highlight" of a part of text inside tlfTextField with the code?
I tried "tf.backgroundColor = 0x990000" property, but did not help.
For instance, I can change the Font Color of any contents inside Parenthesis, by this code:
private function decorate():void {
var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.color = 0x990000;
var startPoint:int = 0;
while (startPoint != -1) {
var n1:int = textMc.tlfText.text.indexOf("(", startPoint);
var n2:int = textMc.tlfText.text.indexOf(")", n1 + 1);
if (n1 == -1 || n2 == -1) {
return;
}
textMc.tlfText.setTextFormat(tf, n1 + 1, n2);
startPoint = n2 + 1;
}
}
So I know "tf.color = 0x990000;" will change the Font color, however, don't know how to "highlight" some text, with code, as I do inside Flash manually.
You should have probably used tlfMarkup property to set the required format to the specific part of text. The attributes you seek are backgroundColor and backgroundAlpha of the span XML element that you should wrap your selection, however it should be much more difficult should there already be spans around words when you retrieve the property from your text field.
The problem with your solution is that you don't check if the two characters are located on a single line before drawing your rectangle, also you would need to redraw such rectangles each time something happens with the textfield. The proposed approach makes use of Flash HTML renderer's capabilities to preserve the formatting, however it will require a lot of work to handle this task properly.
I have a 20 line script, and I want to make sure that each paragraph is indented exactly once.
function myFunction() {
/*
This function turns the document's format into standard MLA.
*/
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
body.setFontSize(12); // Set the font size of the contents of the documents to 9
body.setForegroundColor('#000000');
body.setFontFamily("Times New Roman");
// Loops through paragraphs in body and sets each to double spaced
var paragraphs = body.getParagraphs();
for (var i = 3; i < paragraphs.length; i++) { // Starts at 3 to exclude first 4 developer-made paragraphs
var paragraph = paragraphs[i];
paragraph.setLineSpacing(2);
// Left align the first cell.
paragraph.setAlignment(DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.LEFT);
// One indent
paragraph.editAsText().insertText(0, "\t"); // Adds one tab every time
}
var bodyText = body.editAsText();
bodyText.insertText(0, 'February 3, 1976\nMrs. Smith\nYour Name Here\nSocial Studies\n');
bodyText.setBold(false);
}
The code I have tried doesn't work. But my expected results are that for every paragraph in the for loop in myFunction(), there are exactly 4 spaces before the first word in each paragraph.
Here is a sample: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sMztzhOehzheRdqumC6PLnvk4qJgUCSE0irjTZ0FjTQ/edit?usp=sharing
If the user uses Autoformat, but already has the paragraphs indented...
Update
I have investigated use of the Paragraph.setIndentFirstLine() method. When I set it to four, it sets it to 1 space. Now I realize this is because points and spaces are not the same thing. What number do I need to multiply by to get four spaces in points?
Let us consider a few basic identing operations: manual and by script.
The following image shows how to indent current paragraph (cursor stays inside this one).
Please note, the units are centimetres. Also note, that the paragraph does not include leading spaces or tabs, we have no need of them.
Suppose we would like to get the indent values in the script and apply them to the next paragraph. Look at the code below:
function myFunction() {
var ps = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().getParagraphs();
// We work with the 5-th and 6-th paragraphs indeed
var iFirst = ps[5].getIndentFirstLine();
var iStart = ps[5].getIndentStart();
var iEnd = ps[5].getIndentEnd();
Logger.log([iFirst, iStart, iEnd]);
ps[6].setIndentFirstLine(iFirst);
ps[6].setIndentStart(iStart);
ps[6].setIndentEnd(iEnd);
}
If you run and look at the log, you will see something like this: [92.69291338582678, 64.34645669291339, 14.173228346456694]. No surprise, we have typographic points instead of centimetres. (1cm=28.3465pt) So we can measure and modify any paragraph indent values precisely.
Addition
For some reasons you might want to control spaces number at the beginning of the paragraph. It is also possible by scripting, but it has no effect on the paragraph's "left" or "right" indents.
Sample code below is for similar task: count leading spaces number of the 5-th paragraph and make the same number of spaces at the beginning of the next one.
function mySpaces() {
var ps = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().getParagraphs();
// We work with the 5-th and 6-th paragraphs indeed
var spacesCount = getLeadingSpacesCount(ps[5]);
Logger.log(spacesCount);
var diff = getLeadingSpacesCount(ps[6]) - spacesCount;
if (diff > 0) {
ps[6].editAsText().deleteText(0, diff - 1);
} else if (diff < 0) {
var s = Array(1 - diff).join(' ');
ps[6].editAsText().insertText(0, s);
}
}
function getLeadingSpacesCount(p) {
var found = p.findText("^ +");
return found ? found.getEndOffsetInclusive() + 1 : 0;
}
We have used methods deleteText() and insertText() of the class Text for proper corrections and findText() to locate the spaces if any. Note, the last method argument is a string, representing a regular expression. It matches "all leading spaces", if they exist. See more details about regular expression syntax.
I'm trying to find a way to append text (appendText) at a certain TextField line number.
I found a way to return the first character of a line:
tf.text.charAt(tf.getLineOffset(10)); //selects line 10
But I haven't found a way to append text. Any help would be appreciated!
This should do the trick (put the supplied text at the start of the supplied line), though there may be a more efficient way of doing it.
function prependToLine(textField:TextField, line:int, text:String):void {
var lineOffset:int = textField.getLineOffset(line-1);
textField.text = textField.text.substring(0,lineOffset) + text + textField.text.substr(lineOffset);
}
I am writing a jquery plugin that will do a browser-style find-on-page search. I need to improve the search, but don't want to get into parsing the html quite yet.
At the moment my approach is to take an entire DOM element and all nested elements and simply run a regex find/replace for a given term. In the replace I will simply wrap a span around the matched term and use that span as my anchor to do highlighting, scrolling, etc. It is vital that no characters inside any html tags are matched.
This is as close as I have gotten:
(?<=^|>)([^><].*?)(?=<|$)
It does a very good job of capturing all characters that are not in an html tag, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to insert my search term.
Input: Any html element (this could be quite large, eg <body>)
Search Term: 1 or more characters
Replace Txt: <span class='highlight'>$1</span>
UPDATE
The following regex does what I want when I'm testing with http://gskinner.com/RegExr/...
Regex: (?<=^|>)(.*?)(SEARCH_STRING)(?=.*?<|$)
Replacement: $1<span class='highlight'>$2</span>
However I am having some trouble using it in my javascript. With the following code chrome is giving me the error "Invalid regular expression: /(?<=^|>)(.?)(Mary)(?=.?<|$)/: Invalid group".
var origText = $('#'+opt.targetElements).data('origText');
var regx = new RegExp("(?<=^|>)(.*?)(" + $this.val() + ")(?=.*?<|$)", 'gi');
$('#'+opt.targetElements).each(function() {
var text = origText.replace(regx, '$1<span class="' + opt.resultClass + '">$2</span>');
$(this).html(text);
});
It's breaking on the group (?<=^|>) - is this something clumsy or a difference in the Regex engines?
UPDATE
The reason this regex is breaking on that group is because Javascript does not support regex lookbehinds. For reference & possible solutions: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/mimic-lookbehind-javascript.
Just use jQuerys built-in text() method. It will return all the characters in a selected DOM element.
For the DOM approach (docs for the Node interface): Run over all child nodes of an element. If the child is an element node, run recursively. If it's a text node, search in the text (node.data) and if you want to highlight/change something, shorten the text of the node until the found position, and insert a highligth-span with the matched text and another text node for the rest of the text.
Example code (adjusted, origin is here):
(function iterate_node(node) {
if (node.nodeType === 3) { // Node.TEXT_NODE
var text = node.data,
pos = text.search(/any regular expression/g), //indexOf also applicable
length = 5; // or whatever you found
if (pos > -1) {
node.data = text.substr(0, pos); // split into a part before...
var rest = document.createTextNode(text.substr(pos+length)); // a part after
var highlight = document.createElement("span"); // and a part between
highlight.className = "highlight";
highlight.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text.substr(pos, length)));
node.parentNode.insertBefore(rest, node.nextSibling); // insert after
node.parentNode.insertBefore(highlight, node.nextSibling);
iterate_node(rest); // maybe there are more matches
}
} else if (node.nodeType === 1) { // Node.ELEMENT_NODE
for (var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; i++) {
iterate_node(node.childNodes[i]); // run recursive on DOM
}
}
})(content); // any dom node
There's also highlight.js, which might be exactly what you want.