Is it possible to loop through live paint objects and expand in Javascript?

[wckdtall]

I have a lot of live paint objects in a document and would like to loop through and expand them, but there is no option for "Select > Object" in the menu. I looked through documentation and only found 2 mentions of livepaint, but neither for detection, and are only related to to Tracing Options. Anyone know if this is possible with scripting?

[CarlosCanto]

sure, Live paint objects are "pluginItems" also known as Planet x objects

var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var livepaintObject = idoc.pluginItems[0];
livepaintObject.selected = true;
app.executeMenuCommand('Expand Planet X');

[Silly-V]

Maybe when Live Paint was first invented, it was thought to be such an advanced feature that it was "far out", as "in outer space". Who knows, but I'm curious

[CarlosCanto]

me too, aren't we programmers encouraged to give our objects more descriptive names? it'll be great to know how did planet x came about.

[wckdtall]

Once again saving the day! I will try this out. I think that we need to come together as a community and crowd fund documentation of the more obscure features of Illustrator Scripting. Otherwise, I'm going to continue to ask stupid questions to the community, in hope of building a database of answers. The Adobe documentation that does exist is helpful, but is limited, and in current day doesn't allow copy/paste without unlocking.

[Silly-V]

I think this forum's it.

[wckdtall · Accepted solution]

Looping has been problematic recently causing my scripts to run too long. I had one that was looping through 30,000+ page items that took over 15 minutes to check visibility, and delete invisible objects.

I found recently, that I don't even need to loop through, it's as simple as:

          app.executeMenuCommand ('selectall'); 
          app.executeMenuCommand('Expand Planet X');

I've been using select all with a bunch of other commands like outline stroke and text, and it saves a lot of time.