LDC #147: A Look Back in Time

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Friday, August 09. 2019

LDC #147: A Look Back in Time

We started this blog in September of 2016, releasing one article a week (with only a few exceptions) for a total of 147 articles over 151 weeks, each article illustrating various features of the Legato scripting language. With so many articles available to reference I thought I would take the time this week to put together a picture of where we have been in a way that will make it easy to find previous topics that have been covered. This way no matter whether you have been a faithful reader since the beginning or if you have only found us recently you can have a place to easily find where and when we have covered a topic. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but intended to be a resource to find if we have covered a topic you may have questions about.

	Article	Article Number
	Basic Legato Features:
	Creating a script	1
	Creating a Custom Menu Function	2
	Creating a Menu Function on Application Startup	10
	Using Message Boxes	19
	Introduction to Pragmas and Defines	59
	Dialog Boxes:
	Part 1	76
	Part 2	80
	Part 3	84
	Part 4	88
	Part 5	102
	The second chapter of Part 5	126
	Part 6	105
	Conditional Directives	98
	Using the Function Select Tool	142
	Running a Script From Command Line	20
	Working with Error Messages	21
	Getting a Handle on Handles	109
	Strings in Legato	12
	Parameter String and Arrays	14
	Introduction to Regex	18
	Setting Icons on Scripts	49
	The Debug View	145
	Save and Open Dialogs	38
	Running Scripts in the Background:
	Part 1	69
	Part 2	73

	Deep Dives and Examples on Specific Features and Functions:
	SGML Word Parsing	6
	Setting Up an ODBC Connector	8
	Using an ODBC Connector	9
	Email Functions	11
	Date and Time Functions	16
	ExplodeString	13
	Path Functions	22
	Security and Encryption:
	Part 1	26
	Part 2	27
	Bonus Post about SHA3 Hashing	76
	Collaboration Features of GoFiler:
	Part 1	29
	Part 2	90
	Introduction to Text Objects	35
	Edit Objects	40
	Administrative Rights	45
	User Groups	52
	Editing CSS:
	Part 1	56
	Part 2	57
	Timers in a Dialog	65
	Learning All About CSV	66
	URL Encoding and Decoding	72
	Getting Information From the Clipboard	78
	Putting Information Onto the Clipboard	82
	OLE Automation:
	Part 1	81
	Part 2	89
	Using the Progress Window	87
	Getting Metadata from Drive Volumes	86
	Unwinding From Fatal Errors	113
	A Look at FormatString	116
	Checkbox and Radio Button Controls:
	Part 1	127
	Part 2	128
	Part 3	133
	Using the Windows Registry	134
	The ConvertFile Function	136
	Table Mapping Tools	143
	Introduction to EDAC	121

	Small Projects:
	Converting Wingding Checkboxes to Unicode	5
	Lunch Selector	17
	Exporting 13H Broker Dealer List to CSV	23
	Adjusting HTML and Paragraph Alignment	41
	Unregistering and Changing Software Keys	42
	Promote Underlines to Table Cells	63
	Remove All Hyperlinks in a Selected Area	70
	Find the Number of Custom Elements in your XBRL Document	71
	Save and Load Preferences Templates	79
	Creating a Calculator in Legato	85
	Endnote to Footnote Mapper	95
	Creating a Filing Calendar	97
	Exporting a List of Filings From the Mailbox to CSV	107
	Automating the Insertion of Multiple Images into an HTML File	135
	Automatically Converting Word Documents to HTML When Placed in a Folder	137
	Adding Highlights to iXBRL Tags in an HTML Proof	141

	Large Projects:
	Merging two XBRL instance documents:
	Part 1	31
	Part 2	32
	Part 3	33
	Part 4	34
	Automated XBRL Test Filing:
	Part 1	36
	Part 2	37
	Page Break Template Manager:
	Part 1	99
	Part 2	100
	Part 3	101
	Part 4	132
	Bulk Filings:
	Part 1	114
	Part 2	115
	Part 3	118
	Part 4	119
	Section 16 Data Scraper:
	Part 1	117
	Part 2	122
	Part 3	129
	Part 4	131

	Other Posts of Note:
	Legato Best Design Practices	67
	Talking About Memory Allocation	93
	Use Legato To Create DVTs For Application Testing	108
	When to Use For Loops Versus When to Use While Loops	139

Wow! Look at how far we have traveled in three years. From the very basics of Legato to adding entire layers of functionality to GoFiler, we have visited a great number of the features available. Legato offers all you need to automate tasks and extend functionality making conversions a breeze. It has been a pleasure to be able to write this blog. From all of us at Novaworks, happy three year anniversary, with many more to come!

Joshua Kwiatkowski is a developer at Novaworks, primarily working on Novaworks’ cloud-based solution, GoFiler Online. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Game Design and Development. He has been with the company since 2013.