Simple Scripting Question

[Tim Fuller]

Hello All,

I've recently discovered Leo and really loving it.  I am trying to get into the scripting but I'm having trouble doing a simple operation.  Could someone please help me out or point me to the documentation that would lead to the answer?

I'm wanting to write a simple script that would take the highlighted node and clone it to an action item list.  

So, I'm wanting to clone a node as a child to ActionItems.  I've gotten as far as tmpNode = c.p.clone()  And tmpNode.paste() works exactly as expected.  I just can't figure out how to dictate where to paste it.

Thanks

[Edward K. Ream]

​Let p = tmpNode Try p.moveToLastChildOf(​ActionItems) or p.moveToNthChildOf(ActionItems, n)

You must also do a c.redraw() to make the change visible.

If you use the standard nomenclature (p, p2) etc, you can use typing completion (Alt-1) to discover appropriate methods.

Edward

[Edward K. Ream]

On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 9:04:36 AM UTC-5, Tim Fuller wrote:

I am trying to get into the scripting but I'm having trouble doing a simple operation.  Could someone please help me out or point me to the documentation that would lead to the answer?

http://leoeditor.com/cheatsheet.html#scripting

EKR

[Tim Fuller]

Thank you very much for the quick reply.  I'm feeling quite dumb right now as I'm still unable to get this to work.  I have the following script:

p = c.p.clone()

p.moveToLastChildOf(ActionItems)

c.redraw()

But it only pastes the clone directly underneath the current.  I get an error in the log stating.  

exception executing script

NameError: name 'ActionItems' is not defined

Can I not call a Node directly by it's name?  Or have I done something else incorrectly?

Thank you

[Jacob Peck]

Try this:

----
p = c.p.clone()
dest = g.findNodeAnywhere(c,'ActionItems')
p.moveToLastChildOf(dest)
c.redraw()
---

moveToLastChildOf is expecting a position, not a name. :)

Hope this helps,
-->Jake

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[Terry Brown]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:01:15 -0700 (PDT)
Tim Fuller <tful...@gmail.com> wrote:

> p.moveToLastChildOf(ActionItems)

p.moveToLastChildOf(g.findNodeAnywhere(c, 'ActionItems'))

is probably what you want. 'ActionItems' is a str(ing) literal, whereas
ActionItems is an undefined variable.

Cheers -Terry

[Tim Fuller]

Thanks everybody, I got it working.  Starting to wrap my head around how all this works.  I appreciate all the help.

[Terry Brown]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:53:29 -0700 (PDT)
Tim Fuller <tful...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks everybody, I got it working. Starting to wrap my head around
> how all this works. I appreciate all the help.

Good. Although working out how to code these things yourself is far
more valuable than using plugins :-) I'll just point out that the
quick_move plugin and make transient or permanent buttons which copy /
clone / move the current node to designated places.

Cheers -Terry

[Tim Fuller]

Thanks again. Super impressed with the community here.