Script for removing color definitions

Question

I'm trying to create a script that will remove color definitions other than the default plus our corporate colors. I'm thinking some kind of "while" loop to go through the doc's color list, matching it to an array of named colors.

I see that there is a Color object and methods such as Delete(), but it's not coming together for me.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ian Proudfoot · Accepted Answer

Okay, I got it to work with the rather sloppy:

if (!(col.Name in {"Custom1":"", "Custom2":"", "Custom3":""}))

Thankfully we only have three corporate colors so this isn't too ugly. If someone has time, I would like to see a cleaner method of checking against an array (or list) of items as my next project is to clean out variables for which we have tons that are no longer acceptable.

Thanks

Milo

Try this as one way to solve the problem. It adds a new contains() method to the Array class.

var doc = app.ActiveDoc, 
    col  = doc.FirstColorInDoc
    keepColors = ["Black","White","Red","Green","Blue","Cyan","Magenta","Yellow","Dark Grey","Pale Green","Forest Green","Royal Blue","Olive","Salmon","Mauve","Light Salmon","Custom Color"];
Array.prototype.contains = function (value) {
    var i;
    for (i = 0; i < this.length; i+=1) {
        if (this === value) {
            return true;
        }
    }
}
while(col.ObjectValid()){
    if (!keepColors.contains(col.Name)) { 
        col2 = col.NextColorInDoc;
        col.Delete();
        col = col2;
    }
    else {
        col = col.NextColorInDoc;
    }
}

Chintu_123 · Answer

I am posting a small snippet which demonstrates how to traverse the color object in doc and delete it. The following sample iterates over all the color present in the doc until it finds a color named “testcolor” and then deletes it. It works on the active document.

doc = app.ActiveDoc //getting the active doc

col = doc.FirstColorInDoc //getting the first color in doc

while (col.ObjectValid() ) //checking if the color object is valid

{

if (col.Name == "testcolor" ) // matching for testcolor

{

col.Delete() //deleting the color

break

}

else {

col = col.NextColorInDoc

}

Regards,

Vikash

FrameMaker Engineering team

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