[IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

[Martin Sevior]

HI Christoph,

We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of
the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add
that to the API if there was consensus this would be a useful thing to
do. Now is a good time to put in such requests because we're just
finishing off the 2.8 release.

However you can pop up the AbiWord modeless Word Count dialog by doing:


self._abiword_canvas.invoke_cmd("dlgWordCount","",0,0)

This will give you document statistics as you type.

I can imagine that having the word count auto-updating in the toolbar
would be a neat little feature
for the Write 0.86. It might one of those "high ceiling" features for
users to discover.

One might also think of "find", "replace" and "goto" all being
implemented in the toolbar.

We have to careful to remember our target audience though.

Cheers

Martin

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Christoph
Derndorfer<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> while using Write today to draft up some articles for olpcnews I
> realized that I was missing a "word count" feature.
>
> Given that a lot of schools have very specific word count goals for
> homeworks, essays and assignments I'm thinking that this could be a
> useful feature to implement in time for the 0.86 release.
>
> What does everyone think about this?
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Derndorfer
> co-editor, olpcnews
> url: www.olpcnews.com
> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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