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Get reference to textframe that the selected text is in.

Jun 14, 2012 10:37 PM

How do I get a reference to the textframe that the selected text is in?.

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1. Harbs.,

Jun 14, 2012 11:38 PM in reply to woudger7777

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text.parentTextFrames returns an array of all the textframes the specified text runs through.

so you'd want:
text.parentTextFrames[0];

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2. -hans-,

Jun 14, 2012 11:44 PM in reply to woudger7777

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Edit:
Ups, a bit to late, sorry for that ...

HI,

first, selection is a array. So you have to loop through the items to get each parent text frame.

if selection[someitem] is word or paragraph you can use parentTextFrames, which is an array again
if selection[someitem] is a table it's parent ...
if selection[someitem] is a anchored object it should be parent.parentTextFrames[0]

Guess I'm missing a lot possibilities ;-)

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3. woudger7777,

Jun 15, 2012 1:08 PM in reply to woudger7777

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Thank you for your reply. I should have thought about what I really needed. I'm trying to the the xml for the textframe of the selected text.

I have l2elements = app.selection[0].parentTextFrames[0].associatedXMLElement.xmlElements

but
lim=L2elements.length;
alert(lim)
is always 0;

Thanks in advance.

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