[wxpython-dev] wxPython access to RichTextCtrl

[Petr Šimon]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> Petr Šimon wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to control export of RichTextCtrl content, by defining 
>> named styles and then looping over the nodes in the buffer, export 
>> each into HTML that wouldn't be cluttered by too much mark up like 
>> font etc. and also to be able to produce HTML that would have <h1> 
>> instead of specified font. But I don't seem to be able to get lower 
>> that a paragraph.
>>
>> buffer = myrichtextctrl.GetBuffer ()
>> nodes = buffer.GetChildren ()
>> for para in nodes:
>>    print para
>>
>>
>> The paragraphs are wx.richtext.RichTextObject. I have also split the 
>> paragraph by defining character styles. How do I get to the lower 
>> level so I extract character style information?
>>
>> I am doing this as a test so I understand how it works before I try to 
>> write proper RichTextFileHandler.
> 
> Since SWIG by default creates new proxy objects for returned pointers, 
> and doesn't do anything to figure out what is the real type being 
> pointed to (it may be of some derived class) then we have to do some 
> work ourselves to make it do what is expected.  Please try the attached 
> patch.
> 
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Many thanks, patch works fine.