Say for example, to set the dash to be 10mm and the gap to be 10mm as one property of the line, and make that red, and then simultaneously set another property of the same line to start this time with a 10mm gap, then a 10mm dash, and set that to be yellow.... making the line have alternating dashed line colors?
Hi Maple,
I am not sure of the direct way to do this in Javascript. But here is the sample code, that will create, two lines exact at same position, one line will have one solid stroke color and another line will dashed stroked color. And after that both lines are grouped together. Here is the snippet
#target illustrator
function createLine() {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var line = doc.pathItems.add();
line.stroked = true;
line.width = 4;
line.setEntirePath(Array(Array(100, 100), Array(375, 100)));
return line;
}
function main() {
var firstLine = createLine();
var color = new CMYKColor();
color.cyan = 85;
color.magenta = 10
color.yellow = 100;
color.black = 10;
firstLine.strokeColor = color;
firstLine.strokeDashes = [];
var secondLine = createLine();
var color = new CMYKColor();
color.cyan = 0;
color.magenta = 95;
color.yellow = 20;
color.black = 0;
secondLine.strokeColor = color;
secondLine.strokeDashes = new Array(12, 12);
firstLine.selected = true;
secondLine.selected = true;
app.executeMenuCommand('group');
}
main();
Ofcourse, there is no gap right now in the lines. and the lines will look line as in screenshot.
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