Find text in console

Matteo

Hi @cvp , thank you so much for your time but don't worry, don't search for me, only if it is also your interest, no problem, really :-).
My interest is if a code already exists that can search text in console, when there is a lot text in it and user doesn't want to search some specific words by scolling down the screen.

I will try to search in official Apple doc about some obj-c for interaction with OMTextView. Maybe I will find something here (found now).

Thank you for your always lively kindness in answering in this forum!
Regards

cvp

@Matteo I think that OM... objects are from OMz, thus not in Apple doc

Matteo

@cvp Hi, do you mean OMxxxxx is something related to omz library, not Apple?

However, if it is programmatically impossible to interact with console output via objc, do you know something for pythonista_startup.py that can automatically save in a file (named for example console_output.txt) the output of any command executed in console or any script executed from editor environment, in a consecutive mode, in the same way the output in console appears? This file should contain the exact text user sees in console output/history, and this file should update itself after each execution where there is at least one print statement (that is when the console output changes its content by adding new text output).

Do you know if something already exists?

Thank you
Bye

cvp

@Matteo Please could you try this code as a Pythonista tool.
First, you run the tool,
then you run a script with a console output,
then, in console mode, you type the text fo search and tap the 🔍 icon, and you will watch the miracle 😀

Sure that the code is not bug free, but it is good to start, if interested

The OMTextView does not allow to set text attributes as an UITextView but you can draw on it

from objc_util import *
import clipboard
import ui
@on_main_thread
def test(sender):
	import console
	import re
	import ui
	txt = str(sender.console.text())
	if txt[-1] == '\n':
		txt = txt[:-1]
	win = ObjCClass('UIApplication').sharedApplication().keyWindow()
	main_view = win.rootViewController().view() 
	ret = ''
	def analyze(v):
		for tv in v.subviews():
			if 'OMTextView' in str(tv._get_objc_classname()):
				su = tv.superview()
				if 'OMTextEditorView' in str(su._get_objc_classname()):	
					continue	
				for sv in tv.subviews():
					if 'SUIButton_PY3' in str(sv._get_objc_classname()):
						sv.removeFromSuperview()
				if txt == '':
					return
				t = str(tv.text())
				#print('search',txt,'in',t)
				for m in re.finditer(txt, t):
					st,end=m.span()
					p1 = tv.positionFromPosition_offset_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), st)
					p2 = tv.positionFromPosition_offset_(tv.beginningOfDocument(), st+len(txt))
					rge = tv.textRangeFromPosition_toPosition_(p1,p2)
					rect = tv.firstRectForRange_(rge)	# CGRect
					x,y = rect.origin.x,rect.origin.y
					w,h = rect.size.width,rect.size.height
					#print(x,y,w,h)
					l = ui.Button()
					l.frame = (x,y,w,h)
					l.background_color = (1,0,0,0.2)
					l.corner_radius = 4
					l.border_width = 1
					tv.addSubview_(l)
			ret = analyze(tv)
			if ret:
				return ret
	ret = analyze(main_view)

@on_main_thread
def FindTextInConsole():
	global console_tv
	win = ObjCClass('UIApplication').sharedApplication().keyWindow()
	main_view = win.rootViewController().view() 
	ret = '' 
	next_is_console = False
	def analyze(v,indent):
		global next_is_console
		ret = None
		for sv in v.subviews():
			#print(indent,sv._get_objc_classname())
			if 'UILabel' in str(sv._get_objc_classname()):
				#print(indent,sv.text())
				if str(sv.text()) == '>':
					next_is_console = sv
				else:
					next_is_console = False
			elif 'OMTextView' in str(sv._get_objc_classname()):	
				if next_is_console:
					su = next_is_console.superview()
					for ssv in su.subviews():
						if 'SUIButton_PY3'in str(ssv._get_objc_classname()):
							# rerun of this script, remove previous button
							ssv.removeFromSuperview()
					b = ui.Button(name='clipboard')
					b.tint_color ='red'
					b.image = ui.Image.named('iob:ios7_search_32')
					b.background_color = 'white'
					h = su.frame().size.height
					b.frame = (2,2,h-4,h-4)
					b.action = test
					b.console = sv
					#print(dir(sv))
					retain_global(b)
					su.addSubview(ObjCInstance(b))

			ret = analyze(sv,indent+'  ')
			if ret:
				return ret
	ret = analyze(main_view,'')
	return ret

if __name__ == '__main__':	
	r = FindTextInConsole()

cvp

@Matteo Sorry, I did not see your last post, just before my script.
If you check this one, you will see the line

				t = str(tv.text())

it contains the full console...

cvp

@Matteo said:

do you mean OMxxxxx is something related to omz library, not Apple?

Yes

cvp

Code edited, crashed if text to search empty (to clean console).
I said there were bugs, isn't it? 😀
Added

				if txt == '':
					return

mikael

@cvp, @Matteo, very useful, this should be a standard feature of Pythonista.

pavlinb

Just brilliant.

Matteo

@cvp Hi, I haven't tried it yet your code but it is impressive! Thank you :-)

I sometimes feel that there is a possibility to do something with programming, but every time I see that one of you programmers really manages to do it, I am fascinated.

I want to try your code by saving it in the StatusBarMenu (by JonB) as an action to run with the little buttons of it. So my dream is to associate your script to a user key of StatusBarMenu in order to enable/disable the search text function.
So do you know if it is possible to disable your search function (with a click) if user wants to return to use the console to run python commands instead of to search text?

Thank you very much
Regards

cvp

@Matteo It is not needed. Even if you activate the search, the normal use of the console command still works by pressing enter. The search is only done if you tap the 🔍 icon.

Matteo

@mikael Hi, I still use Pythonista version 3.1 (I have an old iphone with ios 10.3.3) and it is a great software, I find it very exciting to think that user can even customize the interface of this application as you wish, if knows how to do it ;-)

Pythonista is Great!

cvp

@Matteo said:

Pythonista is Great!

Full agree. I hope you have seen my previous post because we wrote at the same time

Matteo

@cvp Yes! you are right, sorry, two buttons on console line! You created a second button at left of input line, Thank you again!

cvp

@Matteo said:

two buttons on console line

Do you see two buttons on the console line?

Matteo

@cvp no no, I badly explained myself sorry, I meant I see your button search at left, at right I see the built-in recall command icons and the execute command is the return key of keyboard, yes sorry. I'm excited...

cvp

@Matteo 👍

Matteo

Hi @cvp, thanks again for your code, it helps me a lot! I tried to change it in order to clear highlighting of the text before each touch of the "Find" button, because if I search different words, the console becomes too colored and I can't understand where the last word is selected.

If you want and have time, can you show me how to change your code in order to remove all highlighting before each touch of your "Find" user key?

Thanks
Bye

cvp

@Matteo that is strange, because when you tap the find button, I remove all colored buttons before to create new ones, thus no overlap of multiple searches.
Did you change something?
I just retry and there is no problem...

Could you post your code if not exactly mine

Matteo

@cvp Hi thanks for reply, with Pythonista I use (v.3.1 301016) on ios 10.3.3 I have different behavior from you , that is when I touch Find key , the previous highligtings can't disappear (text become red and more red...). Maybe it is due to different objc implementation of new version of Pythonista.

I will try again , if I will notice some different behavior I will let you know.

Thank you
Regards