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December 7, 2023
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How to add or remove tab stops using ExtendScript

  • December 7, 2023
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I need to change the tabs in a paragraph via scripting. Here is what I have so far:

 

 

var oaTabs = oPgf.Tabs;
var oaNewTabs = [];
for( n = 0; n < oaTabs.length; n++ )
{
    if( oaTabs[n].x < iLeft || oaTabs[n].x > iRight ) 
        oaNewTabs.push( oaTabs[n] );
}
var oaProps = oPgf.GetProps( );
var i = GetPropIndex( oaProps, Constants.FP_Tabs );
oaProps[i].propVal.tsval = oaNewTabs;
oPgf.SetProps( oaProps );

 

 

 

Replacing the tsval inside the propVal for the paragaph tags does not work. I believe tsval is an alias to an array that is actually there, but what is the property name of the array that I need to replace ? Can this be done at all in this manner ?

 

Thanks for a quick reply

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    Correct answer frameexpert

    Hi Jang, instead of this:

     

    var oaNewTabs = [];

     

    try this:

     

    var oaNewTabs = new Tabs ();

    Let me know if that doesn't work and I will poke at it a little more. Thanks.

     

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    frameexpert
    Community Expert
    frameexpertCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 7, 2023

    Hi Jang, instead of this:

     

    var oaNewTabs = [];

     

    try this:

     

    var oaNewTabs = new Tabs ();

    Let me know if that doesn't work and I will poke at it a little more. Thanks.

     

    4everJang
    4everJangAuthor
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    December 7, 2023

    Hi Rick,

    That works. Thanks. In the meantime I had also found another method. Not using the oPgf.Tabs property but going through GetProps method to assign the tsval to oaTabs. With that method, oaTabs seems to be the pointer to the right tsval structure in oaProps that I needed. Here is the working code:

    var oaProps = oPgf.GetProps( );
var p = GetPropIndex( oaProps, Constants.FP_Tabs );
var oaTabs = oaProps[p].propVal.tsval;
var oaNewTabs = [];
for( n = 0; n < oaTabs.length; n++ )
    if( oaTabs[n].x < iLeft + 10 || oaTabs[n].x > iRight - 10 )
        oaNewTabs.push( oaTabs[n] );
while( oaTabs.length ) oaTabs.pop( );
for( n = 0; n < oaNewTabs.length; n++ ) oaTabs.push( oaNewTabs[n] );
oPgf.SetProps( oaProps );

    The script is kicking out the tabs at positions between iLeft and iRight (which are calculated from the label text, which might be shorter or longer depending on content and language).

     

    Kind regards

    4everJang

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