Range comparison

[mdeg]

Hi all,

I'm new in FDK and try to compare two ranges to define which of them is the first one in the document. But I didn't find any function in FDK.

Does anybody know ways to do it?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Now why would you ask in the unstructured FM forum when there’s a whole forum devoted to Scripting?

[mdeg]

Hi Jeff,

sorry, but I don't understand your question. I wrote my question in the All communities -> Framemaker -> Discussions, how there is related to the scripting only?

And how my question is related to unstructured FM? I work with the structured mode.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Try here - https://forums.adobe.com/community/framemaker/extendscript?view=overview

[Russ Ward · Accepted solution]

mdeg,

What do you mean by "range"? Do you mean a text range, and you want to know which range occurs before the other in the respective flow? If that's the case, I think you would need to do the following, assuming the ranges start in different paragraphs:

- Find the text frame for one of the paragraphs, likely with the InTextFrame property of the textrange.beg.obj object

- Get the parent flow object, likely with the textframe.Flow property

- Get the first paragraph in the flow, likely with flow.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf

- Iterate over all paragraphs in the flow, likely with the pgf.NextPgfInFlow property

- The first one that you get to that matches one of your textrange.beg.obj objects means that textrange occurs first

If the two ranges start in the same paragraph, where textrange1.beg.obj = textrange2.beg.obj, you could just skip all that and compare the offsets.

If one or more of the ranges are in a table cell, footnote, etc, the whole process becomes significantly more complex. Too much to address here.

Russ

[mdeg]

Thank you Russ.

Your answer is quite enough to start the implementation.