Implemented a working word and char counter that runs in the background at regular intervals.

nw/gui/wordcounter.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""novelWriter GUI Document Word Counter
+
+ novelWriter – GUI Document Word Counter
+===================================
+ A thread for counting words and characters in a document
+
+ File History:
+ Created: 2019-04-22 [0.0.1]
+
+"""
+
+import logging
+import nw
+
+from time import time
+
+from PyQt5.QtWidgets     import QWidget, QTextEdit, QHBoxLayout, QVBoxLayout, QFrame, QSplitter, QToolBar, QAction, QScrollArea
+from PyQt5.QtCore        import Qt, QSize, QSizeF, QTimer, QThread, pyqtSignal
+from PyQt5.QtGui         import QIcon, QFont, QTextCursor, QTextFormat, QTextBlockFormat
+
+from nw.gui.dochighlight import GuiDocHighlighter
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+class WordCounter(QThread):
+
+    def __init__(self, theParent):
+        QThread.__init__(self, theParent)
+        self.theParent = theParent
+        self.charCount = 0
+        self.wordCount = 0
+        return
+
+    def run(self):
+
+        self.charCount = 0
+        self.wordCount = 0
+
+        for n in range(self.theParent.theDoc.blockCount()):
+
+            theBlock = self.theParent.theDoc.findBlockByNumber(n)
+            if not theBlock.isValid():
+                continue
+
+            theText = theBlock.text()
+            theLen  = len(theText)
+
+            if theLen == 0:
+                continue
+            if theText[0] == "@" or theText[0] == "%":
+                continue
+
+            if   theText[0:5] == "#### ":
+                self.wordCount -= 1
+                self.charCount -= 5
+            elif theText[0:4] == "### ":
+                self.wordCount -= 1
+                self.charCount -= 4
+            elif theText[0:3] == "## ":
+                self.wordCount -= 1
+                self.charCount -= 3
+            elif theText[0:2] == "# ":
+                self.wordCount -= 1
+                self.charCount -= 2
+
+            theBuff = theText.replace("–"," ").replace("—"," ")
+            self.wordCount += len(theBuff.split())
+            self.charCount += theLen
+
+        pass
+
+## END Class _WordCounter