Textblock macro suggestion

[Roland]

Dear Wanderfan and other assemblers.

Under Drawing WB (past) I used a macro to create an easily editable text block on drawings.
The idea is that the editing is made more easy by using a spreadsheet.
I attach the macro, and an example document in which the macro has been used. (plus a drawing template that is required for it to properly work)

Unfortunately, I cannot make this thing working under Techdraw. (actually, I am not a python coder, and the colleague who created it is no longer here).

For me this approach was quite useful, and I am sending this to you as a suggestion for your review. You can test it under FC17 and the Drawing WB.

Do you think such a thing could be useful for TechDraw?

Best regards,

Roland

[wandererfan]

Unfortunately, I cannot make this thing working under Techdraw. (actually, I am not a python coder, and the colleague who created it is no longer here).

For me this approach was quite useful, and I am sending this to you as a suggestion for your review. You can test it under FC17 and the Drawing WB.

Do you think such a thing could be useful for TechDraw?

Looks good. Needs some changes to work with TD - EditableTexts belong to Template, not Page, and EditableTexts is a python-dictionary, not a Python list. Also the Spreadsheet would have to live outside the Page, I think, but I'll have to check that.

There's also this related feature request: issue #3911