FrameMaker - ExtendScript Writing text to console

[roym76266846]

Hello 

I am trying to create an ExtendScript that takes contents from a FrameMaker document and write it to the Console in the first instance:

This is my attempt:

var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var firstPgf = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;floop(firstPgf);

function floop(Pgf){
while(Pgf){
var pgfText = Pgf.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);
Pgf=doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.NextPgf;
for(var i=0; i<pgfText.length;i++){
$.writeln(pgfText[i]);
}
$.writeln(pgfText);
}
}

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The output I get is:

[object TextItem]
Result: undefined
[object TextItem]
[object TextItem]
[object TextItem]
[object TextItem]
[object TextItem]
[object TextItem],[object TextItem],[object TextItem],[object TextItem],[object TextItem]
Result: undefined

The object instances returned seem to be empty or not read at all.

Can you advise?

Thanks

[frameexpert]

TextItems can be a little complicated to figure out because you have to know what properties to extract. Here is a function that you call for each paragraph that will give you the paragraph's text:

function getText (textObj, doc) {
    
    // Gets the text from the text object or text range.

    var textItems, text, i;
    
    // Get a list of the strings in the text object or text range.
    if (textObj.constructor.name !== "TextRange") {
        textItems = textObj.GetText (Constants.FTI_String);
    } 
    else {
        textItems = doc.GetTextForRange (textObj, Constants.FTI_String);
    }
    
    // Concatenate the strings.
    text = "";
    for (i = 0; i < textItems.len; i += 1) {
        text += (textItems[i].sdata);
    }
    
    return text; // Return the text
}

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

There are some other problems with your code. Here is what you can use for a shell; add the getText function to the bottom of this script:

#target framemaker

main ();

function main () {
    
    var doc;
    
    doc = app.ActiveDoc;
    if (doc.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        processDoc (doc);
    }
}

function processDoc (doc) {
    
    var pgf;
    
    pgf = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;
    while (pgf.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        Console (getText (pgf, doc));
        pgf = pgf.NextPgfInFlow;
    }
}

[roym76266846]

Thanks very much. It works.