executemenucommand selectall doesn't select text

[Bernie5CFE]

I have a document with several artboards in it and I want to select all so I run this:

app.executeMenuCommand("selectall");

Unfortunately, this seems to only select the artwork items and not the text.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a better way to select everything?

Thanks

[Bernie5CFE]

Actually it is selecting some of the text just not everything - see the attached screen grab

[innovative_adventurer5D56]

go to layers, select the circle on the right, click to target everything including artboard.

[rcraighead]

It looks like the text has been outlined. Is that correct?

Can you please expand "Layer 1" so content can be viewed?

@innovative_adventurer5D56, That's a good way to manually select. I think @Bernie5CFE is wanting to do it in a script.

You can also try:

app.activeDocument.layers[0].hasSelectedArtwork = true;

This will select all on the specified layer ('0' being the index of the top layer).

[Charu Rajput · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bernie5CFE 

app.executeMenuCommand("selectall");

The above command is used to select the artwork, if you want to select the text inside the textframe, you need to select() method on textRange as below

var _textFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames[0];
_textFrame.textRanges[0].select();

The above code will select first charcter of the first textframe of the document.

[Bernie5CFE · Accepted solution]

Thanks @Charu Rajput, you sent me in the right direction. 

In the end I ended up doing this:

this.selectAll();

for ( var i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.textFrames.length; i++ ) {
  app.activeDocument.textFrames[i].textRange.select(true)
}