Display tags of a frame document in an alert box using FDK

Have a look over in the Scripting forum.

Hi,

You can have a look at a utility shared at ExtendScript of the Week: “Change Styles – (Para/Char/Table)” « TechComm Central by Adobe

You will get the desired code snippet to get a list of all tags from here.

Regards,

Anchal

FM Engineering

Apoorva, this is a reasonable task for an FDK client, but it is not for the beginner. You can get the first paragraph format with the following, where docId is a valid document F_ObjHandleT handle:

F_ObjHandleT pgfFmtId;

StringT pgfFmtName;

pgfFmtId = F_ApiGetId(FV_SessionId, docId, FP_FirstPgfFmtInDoc);

//then you can get the format name with:

pgfFmtName = F_ApiGetString(docId, pgfFmtId, FP_Name);

//then you can get the next format with:

pgfFmtName = F_ApiGetId(docId, pgfFmtId, FP_NextPgfFmtInDoc);

...but as I say, the full implementation of conversion table generation is a significant and complicated task. You really have to know a lot about a lot of FDK things.

I'll mention this... the GUI provides a function to do this already, StructureTools > Generate Conversion Table. Can you just use that? I think you should be able to invoke this programmatically as well, so maybe there is no need to reinvent the wheel here.

Russ

Apoorva,

Do you have Visual C++ installed? This is your first step. You'll need VC++ 2010 for the latest versions of FM and the FDK. You can get VC++ 2010 Express for free that will compile an FDK client. Then, maybe open some of the FDK samples and begin to experiment. There is a big learning curve here if you have never worked in a development environment before.

You might consider ExtendScript instead. It is much easier for the beginner and it can do quite a lot. Consider getting some samples and playing around:

FrameMaker ExtendScript Samples - West Street Consulting

Russ