Finding a paragraph via its format tag

[4everJang]

Hello all,

I have read and tried the Find/Replace script that was posted by Russ / Ian last year, and made some modifications to get the result that I need: finding any paragraph that has a particular paragraph format tag. It does not work and I fail to see why.

Entering the "WritersNoteText" paragraph tag in the Find function gives me plenty of hits. But using ExtendScript there is nothing, just an error code -2. Using PrintErrno translates this error code into FE_Success.

var doc = app.ActiveDoc;

var findParams = new PropVals();

var trange = new TextRange();

flow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;

frame = flow.FirstTextFrameInFlow;

trange.beg.obj = trange.end.obj = frame.FirstPgf;

trange.beg.offset = trange.end.offset = 0;

findParams = AllocatePropVals (1);

findParams[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindPgfTag;

findParams[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FT_String;

findParams[0].propVal.sval = "WritersNoteText";

FA_errno = Constants.FE_Success;

trange = doc.Find (trange.beg, findParams);

if ( FA_errno == Constants.FE_Success ) {

          doc.DeleteText( trange );

} else {

          PrintErrno ();

}

Where's the error in my code or in my thinking ?

Jang

[4everJang · Accepted solution]

Strange things happening here. I restarted Windows and FM10 and the same script works... In Debra Herman's blog I found a reference to an include file for the FDK that lists at least some of the error codes - that showed that the -2 was an invalid book or document. There must have been some bad communication going on between the ESTK and FM10 when I was testing my script.

Anyway, on to the next pitfall...

Ciao

Jang