Can't get visible bounds of selection

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March 3, 2018
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I am having a frustrating time starting off with AppleScript in Illustrator. I have one rectangle selected on a page and I want to get the visible bounds. I run the following script:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set myselection to the selection
if myselection is {} then
display dialog "Choose something"
end if
set theBounds to visible bounds of myselection
end tell

When I try to run it, "bounds" is highlighted and I get error:

Expected end of line, etc. but found property.

What am I doing wrong?

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pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Hi kaveh1000,

sorry, I'm not familiar with AppleScript.

But here is the [JS] equivalent of your code

#target Illustrator
var mySelection = app.selection[0];
if (!mySelection) {
    alert ("Choose something");
    } else {
        alert(mySelection.visibleBounds)
        }

Have fun

OMOTI

Inspiring

Hi,

The class of selection is list.

Please try this script.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set myselection to the selection
set theBounds to {}
if myselection is {} then
display dialog "Choose something"
end if
log class of myselection (*list*)
repeat with i in myselection
copy visible bounds of i to the end of theBounds
end repeat
end tell

kaveh1000作成者

Participant

Thank you OMOTI

1. copying your script verbatim and compiling, I get error: "Expected “into”, “to”, etc. but found property."

2. Why do I need to specify "class"? What is missing in my script that stops it working? I am trying to understand the logic. (Tried some 30 years with AppleScript but still finding it not as intuitive as it seems at first sight!!)

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Did you tried my Javascript snippet?

Are you able to translate to AppleScript?

(Furthermore you also can work with app.doScript - implementing JS in AS)

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