My company numbers drawings where (ideally) Layout Page 1 shows the number "1" and all subsequent pages show 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. I think this may not be possible.The last option I tried was this:
Anyone good at this that sees the error????? TIA
# Finds a page-like index by probing the owner chain (works with classes like NVPublisher)
def detect_page_index(obj)
o = obj
0.upto(6) do
break unless o
# Try common method names first
[:page_number, :page, :sheet_number, :sheet, :index].each do |m|
if o.respond_to?(m)
begin
v = o.send(m)
vi = v.is_a?(Integer) ? v : (v.respond_to?(:to_i) ? v.to_i : nil)
return vi if vi && vi >= 0 && vi < 1000
rescue
end
end
end
# Fallback: scan any method that looks page-ish
pageish = o.methods.grep(/page|sheet|index|number/i).reject { |m| m.to_s.end_with?('=') }
pageish.each do |m|
begin
v = o.send(m)
vi = v.is_a?(Integer) ? v : (v.respond_to?(:to_i) ? v.to_i : nil)
return vi if vi && vi >= 0 && vi < 1000
rescue
end
end
o = o.respond_to?(:owner) ? o.owner : nil
end
0
end
pn = (defined?(owner) && owner) ? detect_page_index(owner) : 0
# Your mapping:
# 0 -> "0"
# 1 -> "1"
# 2 -> "1.1"
# 3 -> "1.2" ...
if pn <= 0
"0"
elsif pn == 1
"1" # no trailing .0 on page 1
else
val = 1.0 + 0.1 * (pn - 1)
format('%.1f', val)
end
