Is it possible to loop through live paint objects and expand in Javascript?

Question

I have a lot of live paint objects in a document and would like to loop through and expand them, but there is no option for "Select > Object" in the menu. I looked through documentation and only found 2 mentions of livepaint, but neither for detection, and are only related to to Tracing Options. Anyone know if this is possible with scripting?

wckdtall · Accepted Answer

Looping has been problematic recently causing my scripts to run too long. I had one that was looping through 30,000+ page items that took over 15 minutes to check visibility, and delete invisible objects.

I found recently, that I don't even need to loop through, it's as simple as:

          app.executeMenuCommand ('selectall'); 
          app.executeMenuCommand('Expand Planet X');

I've been using select all with a bunch of other commands like outline stroke and text, and it saves a lot of time.

CarlosCanto · Answer

sure, Live paint objects are "pluginItems" also known as Planet x objects

var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var livepaintObject = idoc.pluginItems[0];
livepaintObject.selected = true;
app.executeMenuCommand('Expand Planet X');

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