setting hyphenateAcrossColumns to false for a textFrame

Thanks guys, you've helped me a lot. I appreciate the time you have taken to answer my questions.

Sorry if I have been frustrating because I'm so new to this!

Thanks again

It picks up the style from the insertion point, just as it does in the UI.

Dave

Ok. Does that mean that everytime any text is added or changed in the textFrame, I need to apply the style to the new text?

Umm, ok. When textFrames are created are theyby default in a story? or am I supposed to make one first?
Because this line of code didn't work:

myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.item(0).applyStyle(myParagraphStyle, true);

The error I get is: "myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.item().applyStyle is not a function"

You can't apply a paragraph style to a text frame, only to the text of the frame or the parent story of the frame or the last insertion point of the frame or the third word of the fourth paragraph of the frame.

appliedParagraphStyle is a text property so it can only be applied to text.

Don't be confused by UI shortcuts. The UI is (like) a huge script that does fancy stuff. You have to work with the basic functionality and make your own fancy stuff.

Dave

Thanks for helping me Dave.

I'm struggling with applying the paragraph style I have made to my textFrame. How can I do this? All I have on my document is the empty textFrame - It will be filled with an xml element futher down in the code.

Am I able to just apply the style to it? Or do I need to do something tricky?

Hi tdiscover,

I'm not sure which script it is, but I expect that the idea is to apply the style to the entire story, empty or not.

Thanks,

Ole

"in a state of being completely overset" - what does this mean?

Presumably because the text frame is empty and it is safer to apply the style to the parentStory just in case the text frame is in a state of being completely overset.

Dave

I'm going through the Scripting Guide section on applying styles and I am a little confused by this line of code:

myTextFrame.parentStory.texts.item(0).applyStyle(myParagraphStyle, true);

Why is it assigning the paragraph style to the parentStory?