Get row and col nr of current cell

[K.Daube]

Dear all,

For absolute addressing a table cell out of the current cell I need to know where I am.

I have not found a proporty like CurrentRow or CellRowNum. CellRow is an object Row.

// CellNumbering.jsx
// have cursor in a table cell
#target framemaker
  oDoc  = app.ActiveDoc;
  oTbl  = oDoc.SelectedTbl;
  oPgf  = oDoc.TextSelection.beg.obj;  
  oCell = oPgf.InTextObj; 
  
//jRow  = oCell.???;              // ???
  jCol  = oCell.CellColNum;       // 0 ... n
$.writeln (oTbl.TblNumCols);      // 4
$.writeln (jCol);                 // 2

Is it necessary to loop through all rows and cells to find the currentselection => current location found?

[frameexpert · Accepted solution]

Hi Klaus,

Rows don't have a number property, so you would have to start at the top of the table and count down to the current row. You could use something like this:

#target framemaker
var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var tbl = doc.SelectedTbl;
var pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj;
var cell = pgf.InTextObj;
var row = cell.CellRow;
// Get the row number (first row is 0).
var rowNum = getRowNum (tbl, row);
alert (rowNum);
function getRowNum (tbl, currRow) {
    var row = tbl.FirstRowInTbl;
    var counter = 0;
    while (row.ObjectValid () === 1) {
        if (row.id === currRow.id) {
            return counter;
        }
        counter += 1;
        row = row.NextRowInTbl;
    }
}

[4everJang]

function getRowNum( currRow )
{
     var i = 0;
     while( currRow.PrevRowInTbl.ObjectValid( ) )
     {
          currRow = currRow.PrevRowInTbl;
          i++;
     }
     return i;
}

[K.Daube]

Many thanks both to Ric and Jang!

I could mark only 1 as Correct Answer

I will make a CurrentCellNum function to have the indexing the same for both row and column.

  jRow  = GetRowNum (oRow);               // 1 ... n
  jCol  = oCell.CellColNum;               // 0 ... m

This would be prone to erraneous use.

[4everJang]

Klaus, don't worry about only marking Rick's answer as correct. I am only in it for the money, not the points

[Arnis_Gubins]

Klaus,

FYI, you can also mark any other reply as "Helpful" if it contributes to solving your issue.