Extendscript - Book component type - ES bug or doc error?

Question

Hi,(FM 11, Win XP)When you query ComponentType for an FM document book component, you get hexadecimal 0x200 which happens to equal Constants.FV_BK_FILE. However, the documentation says that this property should return one of:• Constants.FV_BK_FOLDER (0x02) - Folder• Constants.FV_BK_GROUP (0x40) - Group• Constants.FV_BK_FM (0x8) - FrameMaker document• Constants.FV_BK_MIF (0x10) - MIF document• Constants.FV_BK_XML (0x20) - XML documentGiven the supposed MIF and XML options, I'm not sure if there is a bug in ES or if the documentation is just wrong. An XML component also returns 0x200. Any thoughts?Thanks,Russ

Anonymous · Answer

Hi Russ,

same issue here (FM 11, Win7). I'm not sure, but in my opinion it's an error in the documentation. The values for ComponentType should be:

Constants.FV_BK_FOLDER (0x2): Folder
Constants.FV_BK_GROUP (0x40): Group
Constants.FV_BK_FILE (0x200): File

Additionally you could check the sort of file type via BookComponentFileType (FM, MIF, XML, Ditamap).

In a short test script for traversing a hierarchical book the BookComponentFileType has some more values:

Constants.FV_BK_FOLDER (0x2): Folder
Constants.FV_BK_BOOK (0x4): Book (inside another book)
Constants.FV_BK_FM (0x8): FrameMaker document
Constants.FV_BK_MIF (0x10): MIF document
Constants.FV_BK_XML (0x20): XML document (also Ditamap and Bookmap)
Constants.FV_BK_GROUP (0x40): Group

The main difference between ComponentType and BookComponentFileType seems to be the more detailed information about the file type.

Best Regards, Andreas

Message was edited by: justBE

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