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getPath error when convert called with editor pane out of focus

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I’m trying to use convertation, an error message shows in Atom with: markdown-pdf: TypeError: atom.workspace.getActivePaneItem(...).getPath is not a function. I’m using Atom version 1.16.0 and Windows 10 x64.

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Created 6 years ago
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travscommented, Jun 15, 2017

@holic-cl Ok great, thanks for the quick feedback. I’ve tried converting without saving locally and it works fine, however, when I click the tree-view panel before running convert, I get the originally reported error.

This issue is most likely caused by a loss of focus for the pane containing the file, thus getPath is not a function on this pane item (the tree-view). Fix would be a better method for getting the edited file’s path, even when the pane is not in focus. Will have a look at atom docs and see if they have a better function.

I’ll continue under the assumption that something like this is what happened in both your cases, until I get a report of it happening somehow else.

Thanks again for the report! 😄

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holic-clcommented, Jun 15, 2017

Ok, i remembered why i got this error, was when i tried to use it, and forgot to save the buffer to a file,

The buffer must to be saved to a existing file.