adobe-source-devel

[Adobe-source-devel] reading output from iomanip

[Ralph T. <ra...@gm...>]

Hi asl-devel,

  If I have a program that uses the iomanip code to do print out a
dictionary, e.g.:

{
  adobe::dictionary_t dict;
  dict.insert( adobe::static_name_t( "test" ), adobe::value_t( 25 ) );
  dict.insert( adobe::static_name_t( "test2" ), adobe::value_t(
std::string( "string" ) ) );
  adobe::begin_pdf( std::cout ) << dict;
  adobe::end_pdf( std::cout );
}

  which generates output that looks like:

% pdf output
<<
        /test 25
        /test2 (string)
>>
% end pdf output

  is there any way that I can read this back into a dictionary? (I
don't particularly need postscript output, if asl_cel/xml/... is
easier to read in then I can use that).

Ralph

Re: [Adobe-source-devel] reading output from iomanip

[Foster T. B. <fbr...@ad...>]

Ralph,

The asl_cel io manipulator should allow you to round-trip array_t and  
dictionary_t by using adobe/source/expression_parser to fetch the  
values back into their respective data structures. An example of this  
already in the code is (among others) adobe/future/widgets/sources/ 
mac/metrics.cpp

Blessings,
Foster

On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:36p, Ralph Thomas wrote:

>   is there any way that I can read this back into a dictionary? (I
> don't particularly need postscript output, if asl_cel/xml/... is
> easier to read in then I can use that).
>
> Ralph

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