I am trying to figure out what would be the best way(if possible) to enable Kofax Capture users to annotate tiff images while processing them (preferably in Validation step in Kofax Capture/KTM. I do have a Atalasoft DotImage library that can annotate pdf and tif files, so I have to figure out how to develop this custom module/panel and plug it in validation screen so users can use it to burn annotations into images in the batch.
Thanks,
Goran
First: Only KC validation can use a custom panel, and if you are already or intending to use KTM Validation, you won't want to switch to KC Validation.
KTM interactive modules have functionality called sticky notes. This built in functionality lets a user add a note to any location of an image. These notes are then accessible via the document object in script (pXDoc.Annotations). These do not burn into the image out of the box, however you could let the users use this interface then use the Batch_Close event to loop through documents and access the notes they have created. Make sure you check the close mode so you don't take action when the batch suspends or closes in error.
At that point you might go different routes:
Modify the images directly from Validation's Batch_Close event - KTM script can only see COM visible assemblies and I believe Atalasoft is not. So you will need to create your own COM visible assembly which takes coordinates and text from the note. Then call this in Batch_Close to annotate your image.
Store the text and coordinates to modify the image later - You might to use Batch_Close just to get the data out of KTM and into either KC Custom Storage Strings or an external file alongside the images. Then you would write a KC custom module to use that data to modify the image.
The second option might be more work, but my instinct is to avoid any complexity in interactive modules.
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In Lotuscript you can manipulate design elements - create them, change them, rename them, etc.
Are you able to do the same thing for Xpages and custom controls design elements?
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My question should have been clearer. What I want to accomplish is to copy an existing cc and give it a new name, programatically. The app will then close and reopen (or refresh or get rebuilt) so that the app can "see" the new cc. If I copy the cc it will only have one field on it. I will add custom code later. I could just create a new cc with no code in it, that would work too.
I am not familiar with the DXL exporter but I can research it. Using that can I just export the design of the cc to an XML file in a temp directory, use the transform to change the name, and then import the control?
I think the XPage or Custom Control design elements are probably under MISC_CODE or MISC_FORMAT design elements in a NoteCollection.
However, accessing that design element is the easy part. Doing a create / rename / change etc is a much bigger task.
Remember that the XPage or Custom Control XML file is only a starting point:
XPages and Custom Controls also have a .xsp.metadata file, as you'll see with source control.
Custom Controls will also have (and need) a .xsp-config file.
There are corresponding .java files for every XPage and Custom Control in the Local source folder. They're created by a builder based on parsing the XML. I don't think you'll be able to create those programmatically. I'm not sure of the impact of renaming them.
For Custom Controls, even if you can rename the .java file, it's referenced in the .java files of relevant XPages. Updating those is goiong to be a significant task.
The XPages runtime doesn't even use those .java files. Instead it uses the .class files in WebContent\WEB-INF (you need to use Project Explorer view and modify the filter to see those files). This is compiled byte code, so you won't be able to update the .class files for XPages containing renamed Custom Controls, as far as I know.
Even if you can rename the .class files, the XPages runtime almost certainly won't use them until either a Clean (which will overwrite anything you've done) or an HTTP restart. As far as I can tell they're cached.
Depending on your use cases, it's possible not all these points will be an issue, e.g. if you're modifying the XML files and building with headless designer.
I suspect this is why nothing was added to the NoteCollection object or a specific NotesXPage / NotesCustomControl API class added.
In Lotuscript you can manipulate design elements - create them, change them, rename them, etc.
This is only partially true. There is a LS API to create/alter views and outlines. Good luck with other design elements - although they're standard "notes", so you can access their items, in most cases you won't compile them and there will be some problems with signatures (real experience with TeamStudio CIAO).
Your question has two points of view - do you want to alter design elements in design process or alter running application?
To help a designer you can go the way of Eclipse extensions and enrich tools in IBM Designer to help developer. Something like TeamStudio Designer. In this case you need to look for source design elements, mentioned by Paul.
To enrich application you don't need to alter source design elements. IBM Designer transforms XML in source code to a Java code (JSF framework) - so you can generate your Java code from anything you wish. Take a look inside Local\xsp folder of NSF in Package explorer. You will find Java sources made from your XPages and Custom Controls. So if you don't need to work with design elements, go for Java components - they can be built on the fly.
And of course, there is always the option of DXL framework - so you can clone/alter design of the application through XML transformations. Good starting point: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/ls-design-programming.htm
I have a code on the server-side(application) that links with the client-side(application).
The user signs-up to download the exe(client-side application).
There must be a unique way to identify the user(client app exe) with the info got from sign-up.
So, one of the information must be attached to exe file during the download.
One of the ways I found is using "Portable Executable".
Is it possible to add string data to exe and later retrieve it?
Is there any other possible way to make the exe user-specific? Or is it possible to add the user information along with the downloaded exe?
Yes, it is potentially possible to modify the exe at runtime to put your own stream. You might put the User Specific information in an existing Resource prepared for this "update". This would be the easiest way to avoid to take care about changing other parameter like size, etc.. Another option would be to put the User Specific information in the overlay of the Exe.
I'm using mvvmcross binding in a MvxTableViewCell, the cell elements are an UIImageView and 2 labels.
These "rows"/cells will list a set of predefined elements, the image of these elements are png files that exist inside the Resources directory (bundle resource) or at any place on the internet.
Since I might have this mix of images that exist in the bundle and on the internet I would like to use MvxImageViewLoader.
The view model has a list of objects that contain a property that is the image uri, for the resource images I tried several solutions:
- NSBundle.MainBundle.ResourcePath+"/xpto.png"
- "file://" + NSBundle.MainBundle.ResourcePath+"/xpto.png"
All the images that are located in the internet work without any problem.
Is it possible to use MvxImageViewLoader to load images that exist in the resource folder? Should I use a converter?
Thanks for your help,
Luis Pinho
The MvvmCross DownloadCache plugin on Touch resolves image loading to: MvxTouchLocalFileImageLoader - see https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross/blob/v3/Plugins/Cirrious/DownloadCache/Cirrious.MvvmCross.Plugins.DownloadCache.Touch/MvxTouchLocalFileImageLoader.cs
This uses res: as the scheme/prefix to detect whether a resource file has been requestd and then uses UIImage.FromFile to load them.
Since other platforms do not support resource files using the same prefix, you may find you need to use a value converter for this when moving to multiple platforms.
Alternatively, you could easily implement your own MyImageView control inheriting from MvxImageView which would intercept the bound property and decide whether to download it or to display it from resources.
am trying to create a friendlier menu to export models using a file format I created, using the python scripts in Blender 2.63.
Have been checking the API documentation for Blender, also the template examples and haven't figured out how to actually call the Exporter I created, which works ok.
Let me describe a bit more the problem; to export I have to go to File->Export->select the desire format->give a name->Press Export button. I want to automate this process through a menu (like the one provived in the templates, ui_menu); just load/run the script and select Export, the rest should be handled by the script it self. Lets suppose the blend file is MyCoolModel.blend, it will assume the exported file will be placed in the same location, taking the name MyCoolMode appending the correct extension.
By having the Custom menu, which is in one file. Don't know how to call the proccess of the exporter giving the described parameters, don't even know if that's possible.
On the other hand, it might be easier to move the code of the exporter to another module, the Custom Menu, add a button and call a function executing what was described, I just one to get feedback if someone already coded this, and re-use the export module.
In the end I would want to preserve the original export module, in case the artist needs to change the default name of the exporting process, or simply 'cause he wants to do it manually.... Having both versions, trying to re-use the Export would be the best if that's possible, no duplication of code really ;).
I am looking to do something similar, they only thing that I have found that is close enough is the following Scripts/Cookbook/Interface:popup. Of course is still far away from anything close to the export menu, but hopefully it can be extended a lot more.
This is primarily a question of possibilities more than instructions. I'm a programming consultant working on a WSS project site system for my client. We have a document library in which files are uploaded to go through a complex approval process. With multiple stages in this process, we have an extra field which dictates what the current status of the document is.
Now, my client has become enamored with the idea of PDF watermarking. He wants the document (which is already a PDF) to be affixed with a watermark corresponding to the current status, such that with each stage of the approval process the watermark will change.
One method, the traditional method for PDF watermarking, of accomplishing this is to have one "clean" copy of the document somewhere hidden on the site, and create a new PDF from it that has the watermark at each stage of the approval process. Since the filename will never change, this new PDF can be uploaded continually to a public library, always overwriting the old version and simulating a "dynamically changing watermark". However, in the various stages there will also be people uploading clean copies with corrections and suggestions, nevermind the complex nature of juggling around two libraries and the fact we double the number of files stored. My client and I agree that this is not a practical path to choose.
What we would like to do is be able to "modify" the watermark in a PDF, so that we only have to keep one copy of the file. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, in most cases when you make something like a watermark, which in its nature is supposed to be "unmodifyable", you won't be able to edit it later. So, is it possible to have a part of a PDF which cannot be changed by anyone who downloads the file, but can be changed as part of a workflow or other object model process?
PDF Watermarking in SharePoint is a common request. I have written extensively on this topic. See:
Adding a dynamic watermark to a PDF file from a SharePoint Workflow
Adding a (static) watermark to a PDF file from a SharePoint Workflow
Use SharePoint Workflows to inject JavaScript into PDFs and print the ‘open date’
You could use Event Handlers such that code was run every time a document was checked in. In that code you could perform the fixup/check that made the watermark be what you wanted it to be. This assumes you can write code that manipulates a PDF's internal structure such that it has the watermark that you desire.
It sounds to me like you want to allow people to modify the PDF they download, but not modify its watermark. This is probably going to be nigh on impossible if the watermark is embedded in the PDF (afaict) but what if the watermark image is external to the PDF; is it possible to embed a watermark in a PDF that is sourced via HTTP? Then you could embed:
<watermark image="http://sharepoint/site/_vti_bin/docstatus.asmx?id=5">
Of course, I have no idea about PDFs, so this might not be possible but you get the concept.
-Oisin
It is possible to do so if you use third party tool. Then you can put dynamically binded value from your SharePoint metadata, conditions, rules etc: http://www.pdfsharepoint.com