[Gramps-devel] StyledText class

[Stephen G. <ste...@op...>]

Hi,

I'm just trying to understand why my spelling app does not work properly 
with the StyledText. If I understand correctly StyledText is a GRAMPS 
only thing?

GRAMPS Notes use StyledText.

The speller I'm using works with the buffer as such

    def _check_word(self, buffer, start, end):
        if not  self.speller:
            return
        text = buffer.get_text( start, end, False)
        if (text.isdigit() == False): # don't check numbers
            if (self.speller.check( text ) == False): # Word failed the 
spell check
                buffer.apply_tag( self.tag_highlight, start, end)

While all works well with TextView, it fails with StyledTextView as follows
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\gramps\fakeGtkSpell.py", line 338, in 
_insert_text_after
    self._check_range( buffer, start, iter, False)
  File "C:\Program Files\gramps\fakeGtkSpell.py", line 307, in _check_range
    self._check_word(buffer, wstart, wend)
  File "C:\Program Files\gramps\fakeGtkSpell.py", line 221, in _check_word
    if (text.isdigit() == False): # don't check numbers
AttributeError: 'StyledText' object has no attribute 'isdigit'

The StyledText returned from get_text has no attribute isdigit.

I had a quick look at StyledText and there was a note: "To get the clear 
text of the StyledText use the built-in str() function."

So I wrapped my get_text with str()

        text = str(buffer.get_text( start, end, False))

And all worked OK.

This got me wondering, .. why does my spell checker which is potentially 
a third party library need to know to wrap get_text with str()?
This seems like a shortfall of the StyledText class, Should StyledText 
inherit from String? (or some other), to get all strings functionality 
in there?

Thanks for any comments
Steve