New Extendscript blog

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FYI, Debra Herman has started a blog called "Extending FrameMaker" discussing the use of Extendscript in FM10. General interest stuff.

See: http://extendingframemaker.blogspot.com/

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Debra's topics to date (newest first):

Cut, Copy, Paste

Selecting Text

Error Code When Deleting a Range and Some Buggy Be...

Deleting a Text Range

Adding Text at a Location in Text

Calculating Offsets

Working with Text

Error codes: when are they actually set?

Debugging with Error Codes

Ungrouping graphics

Grouping Graphics

Import by Reference

A Peculiar Fact about Frame Graphic Object Propert...

Counting Insets

Where's the text?

Updating a Paragraph Format

Working with Paragraph Formats

Getting and Setting a Paragraph Property

Counting Paragraphs in the Main Flow

Counting Paragraphs in a Document

Paragraphs, Ordered and Unordered

Hooking up the Toolkit

The Active Document

Getting Ready to Use FrameMaker with the ESTK

Hello Again

Running a (Very Simple) Script

Document Architecture

Easier to Code? Easy to Code?

There's a New Scripting Tool in the Box

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Here's what Debra's covered in November:

Determining an Object's Page

Determining an Object's Type

Working with Selections

Things that Reside in Text Frames

Graphics and their FrameParent

The Page Frame

Navigating by Page

Working with the Current Page

Page Types

Creating a Variable

Creating an Index Marker

Creating a New Paragraph

Updating Paragraph Format Properties Using Propert...

Creating a new Paragraph Format

Deallocating Text Items

Applying Character Format to Manually Tagged Text

Viewing Text Items

A very important FDK include file

Preventing Fireworks

Cut, Copy, Paste

Selecting Text

Error Code When Deleting a Range and Some Buggy Be...

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Debra covered Tables and started working with Elements in her December blogs:

Preorder Element Tree Traversal

Determing What Element is Selected (Part 2)

Determining What Element is Selected (Part 1)

Getting an Element's Definition Name

Determining if a Document is Structured

Structured FrameMaker: The Big Picture

Making a Selection in a Table

Unstraddling Table Cells

Straddling Table Cells

Getting Table Cells Column by Column

Getting Table Cells Row by Row

Adding Columns to a Table

Adding Rows to a Table

Creating a Table

Tables

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Debra finished off working with elements and then started looking at saving documents, creating markers and aspects of text items in hr January blogs:

Text Item and Line Ends

Customizing a Save Operation

Creating a Marker (Correction to previous post)

Saving a document without user interaction

Saving a document with user interaction

Rearranging the Tree of Elements

Text Nodes

Element Navigation Schematic

Getting Attribute Names

Getting an Element's Text

Collapsing Elements in the Structure View