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How to access the Text Frame, when we use scrollable frame,

Sep 4, 2012 10:11 PM

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How to access the Text Frame, when we use scrollable frame,

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1. Laubender,

Sep 5, 2012 12:38 AM in reply to Nav_alm

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@Nav_alm – that it's a bit spartanic what you offer here as a question…

But let's try:
"Scrollable Frame" indicates DPS, but I don't know what "Text Frame" you want to access.
Is it INSIDE that "Scrollable Frame"?

If so:

var myTextFrameInside = myScrollableFrame.textFrames[0];

would access the FIRST (counting by index) of all text frames inside of the scrollable frame.

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2. Nav_alm,

Sep 5, 2012 1:10 AM in reply to Laubender

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Hi friend,

myScrollableFrame ?

here , What is myScrollableFrame
How can i acces the textFrame with in the scrollable frame, i need to access the content

Thank for reply,

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3. Laubender,

Sep 5, 2012 1:11 AM in reply to Nav_alm

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Did you try my suggestion?

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4. Nav_alm,

Sep 5, 2012 1:33 AM in reply to Laubender

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Hi friend,

But, How can access the scrollable frame.

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5. Laubender,

Sep 5, 2012 1:52 AM in reply to Nav_alm

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That's the same question:
how can I access something (a page item) on a page…

Answer: you need something unique in that object you can get a handle on.
Or you use the selection a user of your script is doing and work with that selection…

A "scrollable frame" is nothing special. What it makes it a "scrollable frame" is the DPS software.
So you have to look for attached labels on the object, that identify the object for the PDS plug-in "Overlay Creator" as a "scrollable frame". That's possible with the "extractLabel("KeyString")" function. But you need to know the appropriate key-string in advance.

In another of your thread in the DPS forum, I basically answered the question how to obtain those key-strings.

When knowing the key-string you could loop through all your page items (you can skip all text frames) in the allPageItems-collection, to identify the "scrollable frame" by extracting the right label.

If you have more than one "scollable frames" you need a second unique identifier for the particular object.
That could be nearly any property.

Keep in mind, there is no "scrollableFrames" collection in the DOM !

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6. Anil Yadav,

Sep 6, 2012 5:21 AM in reply to Laubender

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Try AnchorObject under textFrame

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