How to check current page type

[K.Daube]

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends" - I'm trying to handle variables and need to know whether the  current page is a master page or body page. As You know, on a master page more system variables are valid (Running H/F xx, Current Page #). So to set up a list of valid system vars I need to know where I am.

I read in the doc: PageObject is any Page object i.e., BodyPage, MasterPage, ReferencePage, HiddenPage.

Experiments show that I get answers with this short pgm - but what kind of pages are 'hidden' in the values 0...4, > 7 ?

Is this the correct way to test for the page type?

// CheckPageType.jsx
var   oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;
var   oPage = oDoc.CurrentPage;
var pageType = oPage.type;
$.writeln ("page = " + pageType);
/* type reported
   5   Constants.FO_BodyPage      
   6   Constants.FO_MasterPage
   7   Constants.FO_RefPage
*/

Ah well, "don't check for an error situation you don't know how to handle".

Klaus

[Ian Proudfoot]

Klaus,

I don't think that the oDoc.CurrentPage can ever be a HiddenPage because you can't interact with them directly.

When I work with the various page types I normally get the page's Object type using instanceof, it seems to be more reliable. I use it like this:

var   oDoc = app.ActiveDoc;  
var   oPage = oDoc.CurrentPage;  
var pageType = oPage.type;  
if (oPage instanceof BodyPage) {
    $.writeln ("This is a Body Page");
    }

I hope that helps?

Ian

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

Another way to check is like this:

#target framemaker
var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var page = doc.CurrentPage;
alert (page.constructor.name);

This will return one of these strings: BodyPage, MasterPage, RefPage