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Bill joy

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Text selection

Sep 24, 2012 9:19 PM

Hi All

I want to apply underline on selected text but when i select text with itemByRange() then text not selected.

itemByRange() return array of characters.when i store array of characters in var type variable character and try to

underline then it give error object is invalid in line 7.In which type of variable I store character of array. I also try array type of variable but not sucess.How select text ?

var myDocument = app.documents.add();

var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();

myTextFrame.geometricBounds = ["10p", "15p", "30p", "35p"];

myTextFrame.contents = "Adobe Indesign";

var character=myTextFrame.characters.itemByRange(7,14); // for selection of Indesign in "Adobe Indesign"

character.underline=true; // error object is invalid

Thanks.

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1. Vamitul,

Sep 24, 2012 11:05 PM in reply to Bill joy

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the "itemByRange()" returns a ARRAY of objects.
to underline them you can either iterate the array and underline every character individualy, or use myTextFrame.texts

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2. Bill joy,

Sep 24, 2012 11:49 PM in reply to Vamitul

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Thanks Vamitul for reply
When I try to underline every character individualy using
character[0].underline=true;
It give error Object does not support the property or method '0'.
I also try this :

var character = new Array();
character =myTextFrame.characters.itemByRange(7,14);
character[0].underline=true; // error Object does not support the property or method '0'.

But give error.
Which type of variable store characters array ?

I try this but give same error
var text =myTextFrame.texts.itemByRange(7,14);
text.underline=true; // error object is invalid

How select a text range and underline this?

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3. Vamitul,

Sep 24, 2012 11:54 PM in reply to Bill joy

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try counting from 0!!!

try this:

var myDocument = app.documents.add();
var myTextFrame = myDocument.pages.item(0).textFrames.add();
myTextFrame.geometricBounds = ["10p", "15p", "30p", "35p"];
myTextFrame.contents = "Adobe Indesign";
var character=myTextFrame.characters.itemByRange(6,13); // for selection of Indesign in "Adobe Indesign"
character.underline=true;   // error object is invalid

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4. Bill joy,

Sep 25, 2012 12:39 AM in reply to Vamitul

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Thanks Vamitul for reply

This work sucessfully.

Thanks

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5. rajesh2373,

Sep 25, 2012 8:38 AM in reply to Vamitul

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Hi
Iam new to javascript can you explain how this coding has been worked by changing "itemByRange(6,13)" instead of "itemByRange(7,14)". If anyone knows please explain.

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6. [Jongware],

Sep 25, 2012 8:47 AM in reply to rajesh2373

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Count the number of characters in "Adobe InDesign" ...

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7. Larry G. Schneider,

Sep 25, 2012 11:13 AM in reply to rajesh2373

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itemByRange is zero based so the counts goes 0, 1, 2, 3, ...

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8. Bill joy,

Sep 25, 2012 8:17 PM in reply to rajesh2373

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Hi rajesh2373
Count the number of characters in "Adobe InDesign"
start counting from 0,1,2,..............13.
last value is 13 not 14.

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