Problem with F_ApiAddText() after F_ApiPaste()

[_Stanislav_Kurik_]

Hello,

I've some troubles adding text to structured document after I paste some text from clipboard into it. Here it is how it goes in the code:

...

F_ApiSetTextRange(FV_SessionId, m_docId, FP_TextSelection, &tr);
F_ApiPaste(m_docId, 0);
F_ApiPopClipboard();

...

F_TextLoc addLoc;
addLoc.objId = m_paragraphId;
addLoc.offset = tr.beg.offset + pastedObjectLen;

F_ApiAddText(m_docId, &addLoc, newText);

The object from clipboard (in fact it's cross-reference) is pasted correctly to the right position but no text is added from then on.

pastedObjectLen is length of the cross-reference text (including the element begin/end tags)

I tried more variations of the line:
addLoc.offset = tr.beg.offset + 1;
addLoc.offset = tr.beg.offset + 2;
...

But nothing works.

Can somebody see where the problem lies?

I'm using FrameMaker8.

Thank you!

[_Stanislav_Kurik_]

Now I discovered something. I checked the return value of F_ApiAddText() and FA_errno after the call and I found out that F_ApiAddText() returns F_TextLoc with { objId = 0, offset = 0 }, so invalid text location. FA_errno has the value FE_BadObjId.

So I investigated further and before the F_ApiAddText() call I traverse all paragraphs in the document and the paragraph to which I pasted the cross-reference is suddenly not there! Or to say it precisely, there is no paragraph with m_paragraphId anymore in the list of document's paragraphs.

How is that possible?

[frameexpert]

Stanislav,

What is the exact task you are trying to perform? Someone may be able to give you an alternative solution.

Rick Quatro

[_Stanislav_Kurik_]

Hi Rick,

thank you for response. What I was trying to do is copy&pasting cross-reference from one place to another and then adding some text behind it.

Eventually, I found the solution. As I had already written, the paragraph ID is changed after the cross-reference is pasted into it. What I tried first was to save paragraph's UID and then obtain its new ID by calling F_ApiGetUniqueObject() but it didn't work (this function returned 0).

Simple solution is to call F_ApiGetTextRange(FV_Session, docId, FP_TextSelection) after pasting the cross-reference and extract paragraph ID from the returned F_TextRangeT structure.

[Russ Ward]

Hi Stanislav,

I'm happy that you got it working, but just for future reference, I don't believe that a paragraph ID should change just because you pasted an xref into it. At least, assuming you are talking about its F_ObjHandleT ID. If you thought that you saw an object handle change, you might take a closer look at it next time... could just have been a bug somewhere in your code.

Russ

[_Stanislav_Kurik_]

Hi Russ,

I also thought there is no reason for paragraph's ID to change after pasting xref into it. But it's really the case. When I tried to call eg. F_ApiAddText() after pasting the xref with the original ID, it failed. I think the proof is the solution I found: new paragraph ID obtained from F_TextRangeT tr = F_ApiGetTextRange(..., FP_TextSelection) is different from the original one.

One more note: I think that paragraph ID changed only if the xref pasted was unresolved, ie. if it pointed to some unavailable location.