Sending New entries to Mori

Thanks, I'll look into the NSPerformService.
If I was going to try to format the entire note internally in Note-chan (both clipboard contents and user input note, and text attributes) which cocoa type (NSWhatever) could I then use with the applescript "make entry with properties {note: }"?

I think (at least it does in Mori and TextEdit) that the "text" type defined in the "Text Suite" corresponds to a NSTextStorage object... or at least there is a mapping between the two. I don't think that applescript really knows anything about NSTextStorage.

But as you've probably seen spread throughout the site, I've never really figured out how to satisfactorily access the full capability of the NSTextStorage from the applescript side. You might try finding some applescript experts and just describe your problem in terms of TextEdit. Since if you can do what you need scripting text edit the same thing should work in Mori.

I asked the AS guru's at macscripter.net, and it seems that applescript doesn't pass rich text very easily.

Here's the thread for anyone who's curious.
http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?pid=52725#p52725

I'm looking into using the Mori service to send the note text (from note-chan) and clipboard contents over to Mori, but I'm having a little trouble finding how to combine the note and the clipboard into one single pasteboard.
Any hints to get me started on adding the string of the note window to the contents of the clipboard?

Thanks

I think you need to read the text from the pboard, append your text, and then write the combined text back to the pboard. Here's some code to read the basic text types from the pasteboard:

if ([[pboard types] containsObject:NSRTFDPboardType]) {
return [[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithRTFD:[pboard dataForType:NSRTFDPboardType] documentAttributes:nil] autorelease];
} else if ([[pboard types] containsObject:NSRTFPboardType]) {
return [[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithRTF:[pboard dataForType:NSRTFPboardType] documentAttributes:nil] autorelease];
} else if ([[pboard types] containsObject:NSStringPboardType]) {
return [[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[pboard stringForType:NSStringPboardType]] autorelease];
}

NSPerformService works well when I send it the generalPasteboard direction (i.e. without alteration) and when I send it a private pasteboard from a NSString (taken from a text field). However, when I try to read the info from the clipboard and append a string, I get nothing.


- (IBAction)sendNote:(id)sender{
NSString *noteString = [self formatEntryString];
NSLog(noteString);
NSString *scriptString =[[NSString alloc] initWithString:[@"test \"" stringByAppendingString:noteString]];
NSLog(scriptString);
NSPasteboard *tempPB = [NSPasteboard pasteboardWithUniqueName];
NSAttributedString *formattedNote = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:scriptString];
NSLog([formattedNote string]);
NSPasteboard *genPB = [NSPasteboard generalPasteboard];
NSMutableAttributedString *clipboardString = [self getPBdata:genPB];
NSLog(@"returned from getPBdata");
NSLog([clipboardString string]);
if (clipboardString){[clipboardString insertAttributedString:formattedNote atIndex:[clipboardString length]];}
NSLog([clipboardString string]);
NSData *rtfData = [clipboardString RTFDFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, [clipboardString length])
documentAttributes:nil];
[tempPB declareTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:NSRTFDPboardType] owner:self];
[tempPB setData:rtfData forType:NSRTFDPboardType];
NSPerformService(@"Mori/Make New Entry", tempPB);
NSPerformService(@"Mori/Make New Entry Without Styles", tempPB);
[tempPB release];
}

- (NSMutableAttributedString *)getPBdata:(NSPasteboard *)pboard{
NSLog(@"entered getPBdata");
if ([[pboard types] containsObject:NSRTFDPboardType]) {
return [[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithRTFD:[pboard dataForType:NSRTFDPboardType] documentAttributes:nil] autorelease];
} else if ([[pboard types] containsObject:NSRTFPboardType]) {
return [[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithRTF:[pboard dataForType:NSRTFPboardType] documentAttributes:nil] autorelease];
} else if ([[pboard types] containsObject:NSStringPboardType]) {
return [[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[pboard stringForType:NSStringPboardType]] autorelease];
}
else return nil;
}


with a run log:
2006-02-18 13:26:03.411 Note-chanCocoa[12753] display dialog "note test
2006-02-18 13:26:03.432 Note-chanCocoa[12753] display dialog "note test
2006-02-18 13:26:03.432 Note-chanCocoa[12753] entered getPBdata
2006-02-18 13:26:03.454 Note-chanCocoa[12753] returned from getPBdata
2006-02-18 13:26:03.454 Note-chanCocoa[12753] random clipping
2006-02-18 13:26:03.454 Note-chanCocoa[12753] random clippingdisplay dialog "note test
2006-02-18 13:26:03.571 Note-chanCocoa[12753] Service "(null)" could not be provided: Couldn't read selection from pasteboard.

I'm pretty sure that it's somehow when I'm setting the data to the tempPB.
Any ideas?

Thanks

You could try making the server at the document level, that way you won't need to shut it down when a document closes. I think access to Mori notebooks from outside the mori process is important and will open up all kinds of fun possibilities. Note that you can do a lot of these things with applescript right now, but when you run into a problem with applescript (as discussed above) it's hard to figure the best way to get around the problem. Also I think applescript does work over networks, but probably distributed objects is a better way to do this.

That seems to be what everyone does ... they open the connection and vend the object at init time, and they shut it down at dealloc time. Don't even think of cycling it. But right now the code is entirely outside the context of Mori, it's just a chunk of demo code to play around with and get all the kinks out. I want to be able to toggle the server on and off so I can trigger all the subsequent connection errors to see if I am handling them properly. I cleaned up the client code last night so it is catching timeout exceptions and setting the send/receive timeouts to more normall levels (the default is huge). I also registered for a ConnectionDidDie notification on the client side, but I'm pretty sure that's useless. I haven't been able to trigger that. I think only the server kicks off that notification, and since it's in a completely different process the client never sees it. I need to make another pass through the server code and then I'll post what I've learned so far.

I'm also just doing NSStrings right now ... I want to add in rtf and rtfd examples. That was sort of the whole point.

Ultimately it would be very cool to hook the Mori plugin into Bonjour so a client would have a list of all the Mori notebooks on the subnet (that are being shared) and could add a note to any of them. But I'm pretty far from that point (if I ever manage to get there).

Phil

Ok:

#3 is because I was looking at at v40 which has the selector setNoteTextStorageContent and I'm running v39 which uses setTextStorageContent

#2 seems to be the right way

#1 I'm still wondering about

Thanks,
Jeff

Unfortunately I'm not sure about #1 at the moment, but if it behaves as you says it's likely a bug in Mori. I think we should be accepting all service types that TextEdit does. Please add a bug report for this.

#2, yes plugins can't and shouldn't really know about MIEntry. Entries should be typed like this in plugin code.

id <MIEntryProtocol> myEntry;

And if you ever need to create a new entry you should create it using the API found in the MIDocumentProtocols.h file. Something like this:

id <MIEntryProtocol> myEntry = [NSObject insertNewEntryInDocument:document];

In particular you shouldn't be inserting entries using CoreData's NSEntityDescription class. Plugins shouldn't really know or care that Mori is built on CoreData.

Thanks for the tips. I got things working pretty well now.

Don't forget to remind people that after "insertNewEntryInDocument" you have to "addOrderedChild" to another entry somewhere to get the entry actually in the tree somehwhere and visible. Took a view minutes to find it.

Thanks