app.select with group problem

Hi Akiva,

your variable myGroup is a simple Array object where two pageItems seem to be stored.

If you do app.select(myGroup) you infact do:

app.select([pageItem,pageItem]);

and that will select the listed items, not the group you are building out of them.

Just change the names of the variables to see this more clearly:

var myArrayOfPageItems = [];
myArrayOfPageItems.push(obj1);
myArrayOfPageItems.push(obj2);

// the method add() of object Group returns a Group object:
var myGroup = currentPage.groups.add(myArrayOfPageItems);

app.select(myGroup);

And if you want to anchor the group, you could use the anchoredObjectSettings of the group like that:

// Tested with values in millimeters

var doc = app.documents.add();
var pageItemOne = doc.rectangles.add({geometricBounds : [0,0,20,20]});
var pageItemTwo = doc.rectangles.add({geometricBounds : [20,20,40,40]});
var group = doc.pages[0].groups.add( [ pageItemOne , pageItemTwo ] );
var textFrame = doc.textFrames.add({geometricBounds : [ 50,50,100,100 ] });
var insertionPoint = textFrame.insertionPoints[0];

// InDesign CS5.5 and above:
group.anchoredObjectSettings.insertAnchoredObject(insertionPoint , AnchorPosition.ANCHORED);

Hope that helps,

Uwe