move a selected object to center of viewport

Thank you both !

Indeed, Ctrl+x then Ctrl+v is what works best for me.

See you'

how about a straight cut and paste?

app.cut();

app.paste();

This appears to work. though it does zoom in quite a bit because it fits the window bounds to the selection.

You could include some "zoom outs" with the following command:

app.executeMenuCommand("zoomout");

You could also do some math in order to do something like "make the selection fill half of the window" or "1/4 of the window" etc. let me know if that sounds better.

function test()

{

    var docRef = app.activeDocument;

    var aB = docRef.artboards;

    var sel = docRef.selection;

    if(!sel.length)

    {

        alert("Make a selection.");

        return;

    }

    var tmpAb = aB.add(aB[0].artboardRect);

    app.executeMenuCommand("fitin");

    tmpAb.remove();

}

test();

hmmm. there may be a cleaner way to do this.. but since i believe we don't have access to the bounds of the viewport or anything like that, we'll have to workaround this. consider this pseudocode

if at least one item in selection

     create a new temporary artboard

     fit temp artboard to bounds of the selected artwork

     center temp artboard in window

     delete temp artboard

else

     alert and exit