Multiple textFrames with same name, always select only the last one.

Question

Hello!    In my files, sometimes i have multiple textFrames with the same layer name("Layername").  Is it possible for a  script to always select only the last one( in the array of "Layernames")  in the document?  I put together something, but the following script selects all of the textFrames with the same name.  I think i have to add another loop, which adds .length -1 to get only the last "Layername" object from the array of "Layernames" but i am not sure where should i put it. all my attempts have resulted in null.var doc = app.activeDocument;

doc.selection = null; //ensure there is nothing in the document selected already. this way you only get the selection you want.  
for(var a=0;a<doc.textFrames.length;a++){

if (doc.textFrames[a].name == "Layername"){
        doc.textFrames[a].selected = true;  
     
    }
}just for reference, incase i am getting the index of layers wrong. I always want to change only the last one, marked in blue on the picture.

Mrprintalot · Accepted Answer

I have edited the code snippet i gave, give it a try again. It had some issues as the outer loop was starting with the wrong index, and also using activeDocument while saving was wrong.

-Manan

Loop worked, but only on the last file. BUT i got it to work by changing documents[i] to documents[0]. I dont know why this works, but I think this way the script always takes the first document from the array and makes changes to it and when the document is closed, the next open document will become [0] ? The correct code ( that works for me) is:

for (var i = documents.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    

   var doc = documents[0] // changed this to [0], previously was [i]
   
for(var a= doc.textFrames.length - 1;a >= 0;a--){ 

     if (doc.textFrames[a].name == "LayerName1" ){
         doc.textFrames[a].contents = "NewLayerName1" ;     
      doc.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES) ;
         break;
         
    }  
    
}

}

It seems impossible, but could this loop be run without closing or saving the files ?

Manan Joshi · Answer

Try the following var doc = app.activeDocument;  doc.selection = null; //ensure there is nothing in the document selected already. this way you only get the selection you want. for(var a= doc.textFrames.length - 1;a >= 0;a--){     if (doc.textFrames[a].name == "Layername"){        doc.textFrames[a].selected = true;  break;    }}  -Manan

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