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Friday, August 25. 2017

LDC #49: Making Scripts Stand Out With Image Icons

When you start adding multiple Legato scripts to the same menu in GoFiler, the menu can become quite crowded. Repeating the same logo, the default “LS” for a Legato script, doesn’t help at all. To combat this problem, GoFiler 4.19a introduced a new way of defining custom logos for Legato scripts. Using this feature can make individual scripts stand out and help the user identify them more easily. Custom icons can also add a professional veneer and polish to your script, which is always nice to do particularly if the script is being deployed to multiple users on a permanent basis.


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Steven Horowitz
in Development at 18:58

Friday, August 18. 2017

LDC #48: Improved Align Outline Text Function

This week we’re revisiting the Align Outline Text script from LDC #41, to show how an existing script can be expanded upon to add new functionality. The original version of this script made a set of assumptions, which means it works really well for our sample test file, but there are many other cases where these assumptions are false, and the script doesn’t do anything to fix our problem. The original purpose was to examine paragraphs, try to identify the lead-in text (the “(a)”, or “1.”, or “Section 1.”, etc), and wrap it with a <FONT> tag with properties to cause it to render with a fixed width instead of relying on non-breaking spaces to make it appear spaced. Instead of looking for a very specific type of spacer, like the last script did, we can use the Word Parser in Legato to step through the lead-in word by word, examining each one, to determine how many characters appear before the first set of non-breaking spaces. This is a lot more flexible, and lets our script react better to unforseen types styles of paragraphs.


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Posted by
Steven Horowitz
in Development at 15:57

Friday, August 11. 2017

LDC #47: Using Legato To Alphabetize a List

Everyone knows how to put things in alphabetical order; it’s one of the first things we learn in grade school. Well, just because it’s easy doesn’t mean we want to do it ourselves sometimes! 13-F’s Information Table, for example, would be pretty time-consuming to have to alphabetize manually. Using the SortTable function, we can sort any table quickly and easily. While there’s no SEC requirement to do so, it makes it a lot easier for readers to view if the information table is alphabetized by Issuer Name. Legato provides powerful tools to make this mundane task simple and automatic.


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Posted by
Steven Horowitz
in Development at 18:04

Friday, August 04. 2017

LDC #46: Persistence... Do you have what it takes?

For the most part, scripts are used to make things easier for the user. Why search and replace in HTML code to fix a common problem when you can write a script that does it for you? This reduces the chances of human error as the script runs in a predictable fashion. These quick operations usually just take input and produce some output, but what do you do when you want a script to guide a user through a process? Do you let the user stop in the middle of the process? If so, does your script remember the user’s position so they can pick up where they left off? This week we are going to discuss state persistence.

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Posted by
David Theis
in Development at 11:19
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