Applying a condition to a paragraph

Report · Oct 27, 2011

Greetings,

I want to iterate through all paragraphs in a document and for each paragraph with the "comment" style, I want to apply an existing condition called "Comment" (as per p. 126 of the FDK Programmer's Guide)

The script below iterates, selects the correct text, but it doesn't apply the condition. I suspect I am not adding the correct information to the condid variable. I've tried adding the object or just the Id integer value of the condition without success.

If I apply the condition manually to a paragraph and then run a script to look at the property values, Framemaker seems to apply the condition object to "osval" which is different than what the FDK states (isval). And, of course, "osval" seems to be undocumented. So, I'm stumped on what Frame is expecting.

I'd appreciate any pointers.

Thanks.

#target framemaker

if (app.ActiveDoc.ObjectValid()) {
processDoc(app.ActiveDoc);
}
else{
Alert("No doc open");
}

function processDoc(doc) {

    var txtFrame= doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow;
    var pgf = txtFrame.FirstPgf;

    var CondObj=doc.GetNamedObject(Constants.FO_CondFmt,"Comment");


    while (pgf.ObjectValid()){

        var stylename="Comment";
        var paraname=pgf.Name;
        if (paraname == stylename){

          //get text selection for paragraph
            var tr = new TextRange();
            tr.beg.obj = tr.end.obj = pgf;
            tr.beg.offset = 0;
          //Retrieve the text from the paragraph
            var txtstring = "";
            var textItems = pgf.GetText(Constants.FTI_String | Constants.FTI_LineEnd);
            for (var i = 0; i < textItems.len; i += 1) {
                txtstring += (textItems.sdata);
            }
          //Get length + line end
            tr.end.offset = txtstring.length+1;
          // set text selection
            doc.TextSelection = tr;

          // Set up the Condition object
            var condid = new Ints();
            condid.push(CondObj);

          // Create the properties and apply to the selection
            var newprops = AllocatePropVals(1);
            newprops[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FP_InCond;
            newprops[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Ints;
            newprops[0].propVal.isval = condid;

            FA_errno = Constants.FE_Success;
            doc.SetTextPropVal(tr, newprops);

            if (FA_errno != Constants.FE_Success){
                $.writeln ("Error : " + FA_errno);
            }
        }
        pgf=pgf.NextPgfInFlow;
    }

}

Report · Nov 01, 2011

I've been playing around with this puzzle off and on, and can report some moderate progress.

The osval type refers to objects, but interacting with it seems buggy.

Rather than allocating a new property, I tried the approach of retrieving and modifying an existing structure:

...

// set text selection

doc.TextSelection = tr;

// Retrieve the existing Condition property

condProp = doc.GetTextPropVal(tr.beg,Constants.FP_InCond)

// Add the new condition to the property

condProp.propVal.osval.push(CondObj);

// Strange behavior happens here

$.bp();

FA_errno = Constants.FE_Success;

doc.SetTextPropVal(tr, condProp);

...

The "strange behavior" was FrameMaker becoming completely non-responsive and requiring a forced quit if I omitted the break point. With the break point there, however, the script was successful in changing the conditional state of the target paragraph. Of course, a script that needs to stop repeatedly to work isn't much use, but a least it's a step in the right direction...

Report · Nov 02, 2011

I appreciate you taking a look at the problem, and I'm pleased I wasn't missing something obvious in my code.

Your suggested code will sometimes work fine on my system, both with the breakpoint code and without it; however, in both cases, it eventually crashes framemaker if the script is run often enough.

I suspect this is something Adobe needs to fix in a patch.

Thanks.

Report · Nov 01, 2012

Does anyone know if this has been patched? I am having the same issue. Script works fine at first. But after repeated runs, the script crashes FrameMaker. The SetTextPropVal method is causing the crash.

Thanks.

Report · Apr 16, 2013

Hi -

Can anyone apply a condition to a textrange? Like everyone else (evidently), doing so causes FM to crash every time. Seems as if this would be an scripting task that is rather common, and it's hard to believe that Adobe hasn't fixed it (or educated the community on what we're doing wrong).

Using FM 10 and ESTK in Windows 7. I can sometimes see the condition being applied to the textrange just before FM dies, but no fiddling with the PropVal object yields any other result and the documentation is very much lacking.

Thanks.

Report · Feb 20, 2014

Hello All,

This is the script that I use for applying condition tag to a paragraph, and it is not leading to crash in my case. Can anyone of you pls share your complete script so that we can take a look into the issue and try to fix it. I have tried the code snippet shared by Oliver and that too is working fine in my case.

doc=app.ActiveDoc

tr= doc.TextSelection

newFmt =doc.GetNamedCondFmt("Comment")

var props = doc.GetTextPropVal(tr.beg,Constants.FP_InCond)

props.propVal.isval[0] = newFmt.id

props.propVal.osval[0] = newFmt

doc.SetTextPropVal(tr, props)

Thanks,

Anchal Arora

Adobe Framemaker Engineering

Report · Feb 20, 2014

Here is what I'm using that crashes FM...intended to loop through a doc and change existing condition (PrevTag) to a condition that has been detected in the document (NewTag):

                if (changed) {
                    var result = CurrDoc.SetTextPropVal(temptr, props);
                    }
                }
            cTextLoc = cTextRange.end;
            cTextRange = cCurrDoc.Find(TextLoc, tempPropVal);
            }
        }
return
}

/*This functions returns whether a location is in which page*/
function CF_isInReferenceOrHiddenPageOrMasterPageCR(textLoc) {
    var pageType = CF_getTextLocPageTypeCR(textLoc);
return ( pageType == Constants.FO_RefPage) ||
   (pageType == Constants.FO_HiddenPage) ||
            (pageType == Constants.FO_MasterPage);
}

function allocatePropertiesCR(iniTag) {
        var tempPropVal = new PropVal;
        tempPropVal = AllocatePropVals(1);
        tempPropVal[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCondTextInCondTags;
        tempPropVal[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Strings;
        tempPropVal[0].propVal.ssval[0]= iniTag;
        return tempPropVal;
}

Report · Mar 28, 2014

Hello to all,

I know this is an old thread, but I'm just now getting around to trying this task myself and I am unsuccessful as you were. My script is very simple... just attempts to apply a single condition to several areas of text within a document. It does a few instances and then FM freezes, requiring the task manager to kill it (and it then crashes on the way out). I'm using Fm 10 on Windows 7. I've tried every which way of setting up the PropVal structure including simply retrieving it from a textloc that already has the desired condition... no joy.

If anyone found a solution, please let me know.

Thanks,

Russ

Report · Mar 28, 2014

Hi Russ, This may be more of a FrameMaker 10 ExtendScript issue. I just mocked up a sample document of almost 2000 pages and ran a modified version of Anchal's code. It took awhile, but it worked in FrameMaker 11.

#target framemaker
var doc = app.ActiveDoc
var tr = doc.TextSelection
var newFmt = doc.GetNamedCondFmt("Comment");
var props = doc.GetTextPropVal(tr.beg,Constants.FP_InCond);
props.propVal.isval[0] = newFmt.id;
props.propVal.osval[0] = newFmt;
var pgf = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;
while (pgf.ObjectValid()) {
    tr = new TextRange ();
    tr.beg.obj = tr.end.obj = pgf;
    tr.beg.offset = 0;
    tr.end.offset = Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET;
    doc.SetTextPropVal(tr, props);
    pgf = pgf.NextPgfInFlow;
}

Rick

Report · May 07, 2014

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Hi Anchal,

Here is the script that I am trying to run to traverse through the paragraph tags in the book files and check for a condition applied on them:

var openedBook = app.ActiveBook

//openBookFiles(openedBook)

//savePdf(openedBook,bookFile + ".pdf")\

var arr_ChapterIds=new Array();

var bookChapter=openedBook.FirstComponentInBook

var chapterId = bookChapter.id

var pgfText = null;

var msg = null;

var totalPgfs = 0;

/* Calculating the number of chapters in the book */

while(chapterId)

{

var chapterId = bookChapter.id

var chapterName = bookChapter.Name

chapterId=openFile(chapterName)

if(chapterId!=0 && chapterId!="")

{

arr_ChapterIds.push(chapterId)

}

bookChapter = bookChapter.NextComponentInBook;

chapterId = bookChapter.id;

}

// Err(arr_ChapterIds.length);

/*Processing the tasks for each chapter*/

for(i=0; i<arr_ChapterIds.length;i++)

{

var objcid=arr_ChapterIds;

cid=objcid.id;

cname=objcid.Name;

/* Traversing through the paragraphs*/

var pgf = objcid.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;

while(pgf.ObjectValid() == true)

{

totalPgfs = totalPgfs + 1;

var formatName = pgf.Name;

var textRange = new TextRange();

textRange.beg.obj = pgf;

textRange.beg.offset = 0;

textRange.end.obj = pgf;

textRange.end.offset = Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET;

var textItems = objcid.GetTextForRange(textRange, Constants.FTI_String);

if(textItems.length > 0)

{

pgfText = textItems[0].sdata;

if(pgfText.length > 50)

pgfText = pgfText.substring(0, 50);

}

else pgfText = "(No text!)";

if(pgf.Name=="Related_Topics" && textItems.length>0)

{ Err ("Related Topics tag is applied for:"+pgfText+"\n\n");}

pgf = pgf.NextPgfInFlow;

}

var getChangeBarVal=objcid.AutoChangeBars;

if (getChangeBarVal==1)

Err("Change Bars are on for:"+cname+"\n\n");

else

Err("Change Bars are off for:"+cname+"\n\n");

}

function openFile(chapterName)

{

openProp = GetOpenDefaultParams()

retParm = new PropVals()

fileOpen=Open(chapterName,openProp,retParm)

return fileOpen;

}

This script runs fine for the first time and displays the result on the FrameMaker console. However, here are the issues that I am facing:

After the execution is finished for the first time and as I try to save the book file, FrameMaker displays an error message
If I run the script the next time, FrameMaker becomes completely unresponsive needing a forced shutdown

There are many paragraph tags that the script traverses through and probably stores in a variable. Therefore, I think it may be a memory issue.

Can you please go through the script and help me in debugging the issue. Thanks.

Regards,

Bhavna

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Applying a condition to a paragraph