How to group one or more textFrames

Forum|Forum|17 years ago
July 11, 2008
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Hi All:
There are two textFrames(textFrame1,textFrame2) in my page,I want to
group the two textFrames.The code is like this (vb.net):

Dim Ary(1)
Ary.SetValue(textFrame1,0)
Ary.SetValue(textFrame2,1)
Dim myGroup As InDesignServer.Group = oDocument.Groups.Add(Ary)

The error is: Invalid Paramer.

Any suggestion? Thanks

Scripting

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_frekfeng_Author

Known Participant

Resolved it.

A

Anonymous

Would you please share how you resolved this problem? Been pulling my hair out for a couple of hours on this one. All the samples I find out there are either for old VBScript or older VB.Net that still liked using arrays.

I had to convert lots of code to the new methodology when CS3 came out, but until now all my usage involed only arrays of integers or doubles, not arrays of Indesign objects.

MANY thanks if you can help.

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_frekfeng_Author

Known Participant

oh,yes,I forgot to add the textFrames to the array.
But how can I do this in VB.net?My code is like this:
Dim myDocument As InDesignServer.Document = oApp.Open("c:/test.indd")
Dim page1 As InDesignServer.Page = myDocument.Pages.Item(1)
Dim textFrame1 As InDesignServer.TextFrame = page1.TextFrames.Item(1)
Dim textFrame2 As InDesignServer.TextFrame = page1.TextFrames.Item(2)
Dim myObjectList(1)
myObjectList.SetValue(textFrame1, 0)
myObjectList.SetValue(textFrame2, 1)
Dim myGroup = myDocument.Groups.Add(myObjectList)//here, it said Unable to cast object of type 'System.Object[]' to type 'InDesignServer.Objects'

What should I define myObjectList?

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_Dave_Saunders_

Inspiring

Your array is empty. Try:

var myObjectList = new Array(textFrame1, textFrame2);

Dave

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_frekfeng_Author

Known Participant

Hi:
my javascript code is like this
var myDocument = app.open("c:/test.indd")
var page1 = myDocument.pages.item(0)
var textFrame1 = page1.textFrames.item(0)
var textFrame2 = page1.textFrames.item(1)
var myObjectList = new Array

var myGroup = myDocument.groups.add(myObjectList) //here, it said invalid paramer.
How can I do with this?
Thanks

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_frekfeng_Author

Known Participant

Yes, I can group the textFrames in js, but I tried that in VB, the above error appeared. Any help?Thanks