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Can't get visible bounds of selection

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
March 3, 2018
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I am having a frustrating time starting off with AppleScript in Illustrator. I have one rectangle selected on a page and I want to get the visible bounds. I run the following script:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set myselection to the selection
if myselection is {} then
display dialog "Choose something"
end if
set theBounds to visible bounds of myselection
end tell

When I try to run it, "bounds" is highlighted and I get error:

Expected end of line, etc. but found property.

What am I doing wrong?

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pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Hi kaveh1000,

sorry, I'm not familiar with AppleScript.

But here is the [JS] equivalent of your code

#target Illustrator
var mySelection = app.selection[0];
if (!mySelection) {
    alert ("Choose something");
    } else {
        alert(mySelection.visibleBounds)
        }

Have fun

OMOTI

Inspiring

Hi,

The class of selection is list.

Please try this script.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set myselection to the selection
set theBounds to {}
if myselection is {} then
display dialog "Choose something"
end if
log class of myselection (*list*)
repeat with i in myselection
copy visible bounds of i to the end of theBounds
end repeat
end tell

kaveh1000Author

Participant

Thank you OMOTI

1. copying your script verbatim and compiling, I get error: "Expected “into”, “to”, etc. but found property."

2. Why do I need to specify "class"? What is missing in my script that stops it working? I am trying to understand the logic. (Tried some 30 years with AppleScript but still finding it not as intuitive as it seems at first sight!!)

OMOTI

Inspiring

1.

Umm...I wonder why. My script works in my environment.

Have you selected objects that have "visible bounds" properties in advance?

2.

I added that myselection is "list" for explanation.

You don’t have to specify a class. Do not need this.

log class of myselection (*list*)

In your script, this access the property(visible bounds) of the list(myselection). So, not found.

set theBounds to visible bounds of myselection

In my script, this access the property(visible bounds) of the object(i) in the list(myselection).

copy visible bounds of i to the end of theBounds

or

visible bounds of item 1 of the selection

etc.

In short, "the selection" is "list of selected objects".

I'm sorry, my English is not good.

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