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Anonymous
June 20, 2011
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How to select "next object below"?

  • June 20, 2011
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Hi all,

I have selected group objects then How to select "next object below" frames using javascript in indesign cs3?

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milligramme
milligramme
Inspiring
June 21, 2011

Hi

I interpreted you request as this figure below.

It works for me IDCS3 OSX 10.6.7

groupobject ( pageitem A-E)

  ├pageitem A

  ├pageitem B

  ├pageitem C

  ├pageitem D

  ├pageitem E

1. Current selection is B and run script.

2. C is selected

3. And then, current selection is E and run script.

4. A is selected

// select a pageitem in group object

if (app.selection.length === 0) {exit();};

if (app.selection[0].parent.constructor.name !== 'Group') {exit()};

var current_sel = app.selection[0];

var current_id = current_sel.id;

var parent_group = current_sel.parent;

for (var i=0, iL=parent_group.pageItems.length; i < iL ; i++) {

     if (parent_group.pageItems.id === current_id) {// current object

          // select next object

          if (i+1 < iL) {

               parent_group.pageItems[i+1].select();

          }

          else { // if selected last object, select first object

               parent_group.pageItems[0].select();

          }

     };

};

thank you
mg.

John Hawkinson
John Hawkinson
Inspiring
June 21, 2011
          // select next object
          if (i+1 < iL) {
             parent_group.pageItems[i+1].select();
          }
          else { // if selected last object, select first object
             parent_group.pageItems[0].select();
          }

Instead, just use the modulo (remainder) operator, % sign.:

parent_grouppageItems[(i+1)%iL].select()
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