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Netbeans module development - How to modify opened file

I am writing my own Netbeans plugin to edit opened files. I have managed to get some information about currently active file using
TopComponent activeTC = TopComponent.getRegistry().getActivated();
FileObject fo = activeTC.getLookup().lookup(FileObject.class);
io.getOut().println(fo.getNameExt());
io.getOut().println(fo.canWrite());
io.getOut().println(fo.asText());
But I have no idea how to modify this file. Can someone help me with this?
And second question, how to get text selection ranges? I want to run my command only on selected text.

For modifying the file you could use the NetBeans org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.toFile() and then the regular Java stuff to read and write files and for getting the selected text of the current editor window you would have to do something like:
Node[] arr = activeTC.getActivatedNodes();
for (int j = 0; j < arr.length; j++) {
EditorCookie ec = (EditorCookie) arr[j].getCookie(EditorCookie.class);
if (ec != null) {
JEditorPane[] panes = ec.getOpenedPanes();
if (panes != null) {
// USE panes
}
}
}
For more code examples see also here

After several hours of research I found out that:
The code I posted in Question can be used to obtain basic information about active file.
To get caret position or get selection range you can do:
JTextComponent editor = EditorRegistry.lastFocusedComponent();
io.getOut().println("Caret pos: "+ editor.getCaretPosition());
io.getOut().println("Selection start: "+ editor.getSelectionStart());
io.getOut().println("Selection end: "+ editor.getSelectionEnd());
To modify content of active file (in a way that the modification can be undo by Ctrl+z) you may use this code:
final StyledDocument doc = context.openDocument();
NbDocument.runAtomicAsUser(doc, new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
doc.insertString(ofset, "New text.", SimpleAttributeSet.EMPTY);
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
});

Error: org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.xobject.PDXObjectForm cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.xobject.PDXObjectImage

I am trying to extract image from the pdf using pdfbox. I have taken help from this post . It worked for some of the pdfs but for others/most it did not. For example, I am not able to extract the figures in this file
After doing some research I found that PDResources.getImages is deprecated. So, I am using PDResources.getXObjects(). With this, I am not able to extract any image from the PDF and instead get this message at the console:
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.xobject.PDXObjectForm cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.xobject.PDXObjectImage
Now I am stuck and unable to find the solution. Please assist if anyone can.
//////UPDATE AS REPLY ON COMMENTS///
I am using pdfbox-1.8.10
Here is the code:
public void getimg ()throws Exception {
try {
String sourceDir = "C:/Users/admin/Desktop/pdfbox/mypdfbox/pdfbox/inputs/Yavaa.pdf";
String destinationDir = "C:/Users/admin/Desktop/pdfbox/mypdfbox/pdfbox/outputs/";
File oldFile = new File(sourceDir);
if (oldFile.exists()){
PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(sourceDir);
List<PDPage> list = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
String fileName = oldFile.getName().replace(".pdf", "_cover");
int totalImages = 1;
for (PDPage page : list) {
PDResources pdResources = page.getResources();
Map pageImages = pdResources.getXObjects();
if (pageImages != null){
Iterator imageIter = pageImages.keySet().iterator();
while (imageIter.hasNext()){
String key = (String) imageIter.next();
Object obj = pageImages.get(key);
if(obj instanceof PDXObjectImage) {
PDXObjectImage pdxObjectImage = (PDXObjectImage) obj;
pdxObjectImage.write2file(destinationDir + fileName+ "_" + totalImages);
totalImages++;
}
}
}
}
} else {
System.err.println("File not exist");
}
}
catch (Exception e){
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
//// PARTIAL SOLUTION/////
I have solved the problem of the error message. I have updated the correct code in the post as well. However, the problem remains the same. I am still not able to extract the images from few of the files. Like the one, I have mentioned in this post. Any solution in that regards.

The first problem with the original code is that XObjects can be PDXObjectImage or PDXObjectForm, so it is needed to check the instance. The second problem is that the code doesn't walk PDXObjectForm recursively, forms can have resources too. The third problem (only in 1.8) is that you used getResources() instead of findResources(), getResources() doesn't check higher levels.
Code for 1.8 can be found here:
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/branches/1.8/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/ExtractImages.java?view=markup
Code for 2.0 can be found here:
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/tools/ExtractImages.java?view=markup&sortby=date
(Even these are not always perfect, see this answer)
The fourth problem is that your file doesn't have any XObjects at all. All "graphics" were really vector drawings, these can't be "extracted" like embedded images. All you could do is to convert the PDF pages to images, and then mark and cut what you need.

How to create image from PDF using PDFBox in JAVA

I want to create an image from first page of PDF . I am using PDFBox . After researching in web , I have found the following snippet of code :
public class ExtractImages
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
ExtractImages obj = new ExtractImages();
try
{
obj.read_pdf();
}
catch (IOException ex)
{
System.out.println("" + ex);
}
}
void read_pdf() throws IOException
{
PDDocument document = null;
try
{
document = PDDocument.load("H:\\ct1_answer.pdf");
}
catch (IOException ex)
{
System.out.println("" + ex);
}
List<PDPage>pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
Iterator iter = pages.iterator();
int i =1;
String name = null;
while (iter.hasNext())
{
PDPage page = (PDPage) iter.next();
PDResources resources = page.getResources();
Map pageImages = resources.getImages();
if (pageImages != null)
{
Iterator imageIter = pageImages.keySet().iterator();
while (imageIter.hasNext()) {
String key = (String) imageIter.next();
PDXObjectImage image = (PDXObjectImage) pageImages.get(key);
image.write2file("H:\\image" + i);
i ++;
}
}
}
}
}
In the above code there is no error . But the output of this code is nothing . I have expected that the above code will produce a series of image which will be saved in H drive . But there is no image in that code produced from this code . Why ?

Without trying to be rude, here is what the code you posted does inside its main working loop:
PDPage page = (PDPage) iter.next();
PDResources resources = page.getResources();
Map pageImages = resources.getImages();
It's getting each page from the PDF file, getting the resources from the page, and extracting the embedded images. It then writes those to disk.
If you are to be a competent software developer you need to be able to research and read documentation. With Java, that means Javadocs. Googling PDPage (or explicitly going to the apache site) turns up the Javadoc for PDPage.
On that page you find two versions of the method convertToImage() for converting the PDPage to an image. Problem solved.
Except ...
Unfortunately, they return a java.awt.image.BufferedImage which based on other questions you have asked is a problem because it is not supported on the Android platform which is what you're working on.
In short, you can't use Apache's PDFBox on Android to do what you're trying to do.
Searching on StackOverflow you find this same question posed several times in different forms, which will lead you to this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4665957/pdf-parsing-library-for-android/4766335#4766335 with the following answer that would be of interest to you: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4779852/302916
Unfortunately even the one that the aforementioned answer says will work ... is not very user friendly; there's no "How to" or docs that I can find. It's also labeled as "alpha". This is probably not something for the feint hearted as it's going to require reading and understanding their code to even start using it.

I copied your above code and added following libs to my buildpath in eclipse. It is working.
Apache PDFBox 1.7.1 libs
Commons Logging 1.1.1 libs

Dynamic naming of Resources in Android without getIdentifier

I'm using OpenGL ES to make a game in Android. I got some code from a tutorial and I'm trying to change it to suit my app but I'm having a problem. I want to dynamically get an image resource using a string passed into a function as the resource name. I know usually you use getIdentifier() in this case, but that returns an int and I need an input stream. Is there any way of getting an input stream from a resource dynamically?
Alternatively, is there a better way of doing this?
Code below:
InputStream is = mContext.getResources().openRawResource(R.drawable.<imagename>);
Bitmap bitmap;
try {
bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(is);
}
finally {
try {
is.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

yes u can Suppose u have images stored in drawable with naming img1,img2,img3,img4,img5,img6,img7 than
first make an array like
String[] imgarray={"img1","img2","img3","img4","img5","img6","img7"};
public static String PACKAGE_NAME ;
PACKAGE_NAME=getApplicationContext().getPackageName();
Random r = new Random();
int n=r.nextInt(imgarray.length());
int resID = getResources().getIdentifier( PACKAGE_NAME+":drawable/" +imgarray[n] , null, null);
imageview.setImageResource(resID);
if want bitmap image than just add below line
Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),resID);
if u want other way with less coding than see accepted answer at Other Example

Java - Android - Installed packages' icons not showing in listview

I'm trying to load installed packages' icons into a listview, but they are not showing in anyway, searched and used everything I found on the web but they just won't show, while they work if I use
R.drawable.ic_launcher
So I guess it's not a layout-related issue.
Here's the code I'm using
for(int i = 0; i < numeroElementi; i++){
boolean nonSystem = (packages.get(i).flags & ApplicationInfo.FLAG_SYSTEM) == 0;
if(nonSystem == true){
HashMap<String,Object> app = new HashMap<String,Object>();
app.put("appName", packages.get(i).loadLabel(pm)); // these both work
app.put("appPackageName", packages.get(i).packageName);
try {
//app.put("appIcon", pm.getApplicationIcon(packages.get(i).packageName));
//app.put("appIcon", packages.get(i).icon + "");
//app.put("appIcon", packages.get(i).loadIcon(pm));
app.put("appIcon",packages.get(i).icon);
//app.put("appIcon", R.drawable.ic_launcher); <- this works
} catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
app.put("appIcon", R.drawable.ic_launcher);
}
installedList.add(app);
}
}
Is then there another way to grab the icon? As said earlier, if I force the ic_launcher icon, then it works... testing with packages.get(i).icon I found out that some of the voices have got the ic_launcher icon shown, so I thought that method just directed to that specific icon... anyone can help me get this work, please?