Change and clear ObjectStyle

[bird_de]

I have two questions:

1)

How can I assign a particular object format (for example, "Format1") to a selected object frame?

Reading is like this:

MyObject = app.activeDocument.selection[0].appliedObjectStyle.name;

But how do I now assign a different format?

2)

An object is assigned a specific object format (e.g., "Format1").

How can I "remove" the objectstyle from the object (ie set it back to [empty])?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

1)

var myObjectStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.item("Format1");
app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(myObjectStyle);  

2/

var myObjectStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.item(0);
app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(myObjectStyle);  

or

var myObjectStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyles.item("$ID/[None]");
app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(myObjectStyle);

(^/)

[bird_de]

Works fine - thank you.

Now one problem left:

The object format that I want to address is sorted in the object format palette in a subfolder. How do I have to adjust the code to use such a format?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

var myObjectGroup = app.activeDocument.objectStyleGroups.item("Group");
var myObjectStyle = myObjectGroup.objectStyles.item("Format1");
app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(myObjectStyle);

or

app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.objectStyleGroups.item("Group").objectStyles.item("Format1"));

(^/)

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

It's possible to count the object styles too! 

app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.allObjectStyles[0]);

app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.allObjectStyles[1]);

app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.allObjectStyles[2]);

app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.allObjectStyles[4]);

app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.allObjectStyles[5]);

app.selection[0].applyObjectStyle(app.activeDocument.allObjectStyles[3]);

[3] apparently catches an "ghost" object style called "[Standard Grid]"!

(^/)

[bird_de]

It works 🙂

Thanks for your help.

[TᴀW]

You would need to drill down through the object styles groups. Say the style "myStyle" is in a sub folder called "Group2" which is in a subfolder called "Group1", then you would do this:

myObjectStyle = app.activeDocument.objectStyleGroups.itemByName("Group1").objectStyleGroups.itemByName("Group2").objectStyles.itemByName("myStyle")

Ariel

(Obi-wan uses the Force, so he types faster than me...)

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Aha! Yeap! … Great The Force In My Family Is! 

Ariel, a comment: Does "itemByName" equal "item"?

(^/)

[TᴀW]

Good question. I can't remember. In some versions it was, in some it wasn't. To be on the safe side I always use itemByName...