[CS3] [JS] error "everyItem() is not a function"

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April 30, 2009
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I am trying to adapt Dave Saunder's ChangeCaseOfSelectedParaStyle to work with CS3 an CS4 natively without versioning. See code extract below:

myDoc = app.activeDocument;

myStyles = myDoc.allParagraphStyles;

myStringList = myStyles.everyItem().name;

However this throws the following error: myStyles.everyItem is not a function

Any ideas? (or Dave, if you see this have you already have an adapted version).

Nye

Scripting

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Correct answer Peter Kahrel

JavaScript is case-sensitive: use myDoc.paragraphStyles, not myDoc.ParagraphStyles

Peter

Harbs.

Legend

Of course this will not work if there are style groups.

If there are style groups you need allParagraphStyles and to get their

names you'll need to loop through the array.

myStringList = [];

for(idx=0;idx<myStyles.length;idx++){

myStringList.push(myStyles[idx].name);

}

Harbs

http://www.in-tools.com

EDIT: I responded en route by email. I just noticed Dave's earlier response now...

Message was edited by: Harbs.

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Dave_Saunders

Inspiring

The original script was written for the long-ago world where all paragraph styles were directly accessible from the Document object. Starting with CS3, this is no longer the case. These days, to get the names of all paragraph styles you need something like this:

var myDoc = app.documents[0];

var myStyles = myDoc.allParagraphStyles;

var stringList = new Array();

for (var j = myStyles.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {

stringList.push(myStyles.name);

}

stringList.sort();

Dave

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Nye HughesAuthor

Participating Frequently

@ Dave

Thanks for your help, but after correcting the captialisation to document.paragraphStyles that Peter pointed out, and some updates to the Find/Change lines to bring it up to date, the script appears to work correctly in CS3 and CS4. The code you suggest does not seem to be necessary at this time.

By-the-way, many thanks for this great script, along with 'ProtectLocalFormating', we use it all the time in our design studio. I have also made a version of it to work with character styes, and along with grep, they make a powerful combination....

Nye