How to remember the position of a TextLoc at the end of a paragraph

[Winfried Reng]

Hi,

I have a TextLoc problem. Sorry, when this is to basic for some of you.

I have a paragraph with text.

My script does this:

1 Applies a condition to this text.

2 Adds new text after this text.

3 Then applies another condition to the new text.

I do not know, how I can remember the offset of the TextLoc at the end of the text after step 1.

I use Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET-1 for this TextLoc.

However, when I add the text, the offset is still at the end of the paragraph and not at the end of the first text.

When I store the offset in another variable, it's always at the end of this paragraph.

Is there another way to to count the offset?

Or do I have to use TextItems with GetText and somehow calculate the single text items?

This snippet illustrates what I mean. "789" should be inserted after "123". However, it is added at the end of the paragraph.

#target framemaker
"use strict";
#strict on

var loDoc, loPgf, loTLoc, loTLocStartOffset;

loDoc = app.ActiveDoc;
if (!loDoc.ObjectValid ()) {
    Alert ("Document required ", Constants.FF_ALERT_CONTINUE_NOTE);
}
loFlow = loDoc.MainFlowInDoc;
loPgf = loFlow.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;
loTLoc = new TextLoc ();
loTLoc.obj = loPgf;
loTLoc.offset = 0;
loDoc.AddText (loTLoc, "123");
loTLoc.offset = Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET-1;
loTLocStartOffset = loTLoc.offset;
$.writeln ("loTLocStart.offset: " + loTLocStart.offset);
loDoc.AddText (loTLoc, "456");
loTLoc.offset = loTLocStartOffset;
loDoc.AddText (loTLocStart, "789");

Thank you very much for your help!

Best regards, Winfried

[Klaus Göbel · Accepted solution]

Hi Winfried,

try this:

loFlow = loDoc.MainFlowInDoc;

loPgf = loFlow.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;

loTLoc = new TextLoc ();

loTLoc.obj = loPgf;

loTLoc.offset = 0;

loDoc.AddText (loTLoc, "123");

loTLoc.offset = loTLoc.offset + "123".length

loTLocStartOffset = loTLoc.offset;

loDoc.AddText (loTLoc, "456");

loTLoc.offset += "456".length;

loDoc.AddText (loTLoc, "789");

You don't have to look for EndOfOffset

Just "count"

[Winfried Reng]

Thank you very much!

This will work, as I will not have any character formats applied in the text or any other non-string text item.

However, is there also a general solution, when something like this would be in there? Would I have to count all text items and add the number of characters in all strings?

[Winfried Reng]

Something so that ExtendScript automatically shows the number of text items (characters and all other text changes) from the beginning to this TextLoc?