How to convert textframe to button

Question

How to convert textframe to button?

Marc Autret · Accepted Answer

I didn't find a 'clean' way to do this through the DOM. As a workaround you can emulate a "Convert to button" action, provided your script is allowed to select the textframe target:

// convertToButton for ID CS4

function convertToButton(/*PageItem*/obj, /*str*/bName, /*str*/bDesc)
{
     app.selection = [obj];
     var maCreateButton = app.menuActions.item('$ID/$$$/Dialog/CmdName/CreateButton'),
          ret;
     if( !maCreateButton.isValid ) return false;
     maCreateButton.invoke();
     ret = app.selection[0];
          
     ret.name = bName||ret.name;
     ret.description = bDesc||ret.description;
          
     return ret;
};
// sample code
var myTextFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames[0];
var myButton = convertToButton(myTextFrame);

Note: this approach is used in FlyingButtons:

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/03/flyingbuttons-a-script-to-automate-pdf-portfolios

@+

Marc

Laubender · Answer

Hi mrinmoy1984 ,you can do the following without using a menu action:1. Add a button to the document using buttons.add()2. Access the first state of the button and use method addItemsToState()The only argument of that method is an array that contains the item or the items you like to convert to a button.3. Get rid of a rectangle that was automatically added to the first state when doing buttons.add().With one element on spread one of a document, the text frame you want to convert to a button, run this script snippet:var doc = app.documents[0];var itemYouLikeToConvert = doc.spreads[0].textFrames[0];var myButton = doc.spreads[0].buttons.add();var tempRect = myButton.states[0].groups[0].rectangles[0];myButton.states[0].addItemsToState([itemYouLikeToConvert]);tempRect.remove();Regards,Uwe

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