Add paragraphs with text

Question

Dear patient helpers,I want to 'dump' the contents of an array into a series of paragraphs. Two problems appear in my script:- inserting a TAB by 	 inserts a NewLine- items are not placed in succesive paragraphs but at the start of the flow - hence in reverse order and not in own paragraphs
// write array to multiple paragraphs  var items      = new Array ();  var nItems, pgf, textLoc, oDoc;   items = ["Århus", "Çedille", "Dandy"];  nItems = items.length;  oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;    pgf = oDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;  // get first pgf in flow  textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, 0);    for (var i = 0; i < nItems; i += 1) {    insText = items;    oDoc.AddText (textLoc, insText + "	" + insText); // 	 insert a NL...    oDoc.NewSeriesObject(Constants.FO_Pgf, pgf);  // add a paragraph    pgf = oDoc.NextPgfInFlow;  }

Klaus Göbel · Accepted Answer

Klaus, it seems that the situation is more complicated.

Adding the missing line creates the error

Bad argument {LiveObject("TextLoc").property(0)}

for line 9 (your line 2).

Not understanding the required functions/methods my approach resembles "im nebel stochern" - poking in the fog. Unfortunately there are no examples for this case available (and I'm still in the early chinese phase aka copying existing solutions) - most use of eScript handles existing content - but I want to create some content.

Hi Klaus,

just change your last line from

oDoc.NewSeriesPgf(pgf);

to :

pgf = oDoc.NewSeriesPgf(pgf);

that should do it.

So you directly point to the new pgf.

completely :

// write array to multiple paragraphs

      var items      = new Array ();

      var nItems, pgf, textLoc, oDoc;

      items = ["Århus", "Çedille", "Dandy"];

      nItems = items.length;

      oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;



      pgf = oDoc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf; // get first pgf in flow

      for (var i = 0; i < nItems; i += 1) {

        textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, 0);

        insText = items;

        oDoc.AddText (textLoc, insText + "\x08" + insText); // \t inserts a NL...

       if (i < nItems -1){

        pgf = oDoc.NewSeriesPgf(pgf);                       // add a paragraph

        }

      }

Klaus Göbel · Answer

Hi Klaus,first of all you should swap lines 9 and 10, because you ALWAYS use the same textLoc. And so all textitems are inserted at the beginning.

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