New Area Text

[Djos]

Hello everyone, on this occasion I have a scrit, It can create a new text area, that is selected, ready for editing.

like this

This script:

var myPathItem1 = myDoc.pathItems.rectangle(200,75,500,300);

var myTextFrame1 = myDoc.textFrames.areaText(myPathItem1);

creates the area text but not selected for editing.

Any suggestions?

Thanks...

[Silly-V]

Wow, I tried to mess with it- and couldn't find a solution at this time. It looks like the only way to get your cursor is to explicitly have the type tool active and clicking on the text box.

[Disposition_Dev]

i found the same result, silly.

I suppose one solution would be to set a variable to the result of a prompt or some other type of user input and then just set the contents of the area text frame to the variable.

var myPathItem1 = myDoc.pathItems.rectangle(200,75,500,300);

var myTextFrame1 = myDoc.textFrames.areaText(myPathItem1);

myTextFrame1.contents = prompt("Enter the text for myTextFrame1","");

[Djos]

okay. I try to do is something like "JoinTextFrames", but this time I have a group with texts, when I copy and paste the group in a area text.

the texts come together.

and I have many groups of text, I thought about creating a script to join texts

For the moment this is my script..

//////////////////////////////////////////////

copy();

var myDoc =  app.activeDocument;

var width=app.activeDocument.selection[0].width;

var height=app.activeDocument.selection[0].height;

var xy=app.activeDocument.selection[0].position;

xy=xy.toString();

var re = /(.*\d+\.*\d*),(.*\d+\.*\d*)/;

var str = xy;

var newstrY = str.replace(re, "$2");

var newstrX = str.replace(re, "$1");

alert(newstrY+newstrX+width+height)

var myPathItem1 = myDoc.pathItems.rectangle(newstrY,newstrX,width,height);

var myTextFrame1 = myDoc.textFrames.areaText(myPathItem1);

//////////////////////////////////////

what it does is copy the text group, and as is selected, acquires its property (x, y, w, h) and uses them to create an area text, but I can not paste the text in the new area text.

then would have to find a way to select text groups, one at a time and insert them into the new area texts, that script have created.

Thanks...

[o-marat]

It`s quite another question for the new topic.

[pixxxelschubser]

Hmmh?

I think this based on the same question.

Djos, you can do something like this

var myDoc =  app.activeDocument;
if (myDoc.selection.length > 0) {
    var aSel = myDoc.selection[0];
    var wdt = aSel.width;
    var hgt = aSel.height;
    var xy = aSel.position;
    if (aSel.typename == "TextFrame") {
        var aCon = aSel.contents;
        var newX = xy[0];
        var newY = xy[1];
        //alert(newY+newX+ wdt+ hgt);
        var myPathItem1 = myDoc.pathItems.rectangle(newY, newX, wdt, hgt);
        var myTextFrame1 = myDoc.textFrames.areaText(myPathItem1);
        myTextFrame1.contents = aCon+ "  [[copied text frame]]";
        //aSel.remove();
        }
    }

Have fun

[Djos]

thanks for the help, for the moment, I thought of another solution, but need to add a selection more:

The following script creates a new text area with dimensions of a group of selected text, at the end, the group still is selected text but the new area text is not selected,

/////

var myDoc =  app.activeDocument;

var width=myDoc.selection[0].width;

var height=myDoc.selection[0].height;

var xy=myDoc.selection[0].position;

var newX = xy[0];

var newY = xy[1];

var myPathItem1 = myDoc.pathItems.rectangle(newY,newX,width,height);

var myTextFrame1 = myDoc.textFrames.areaText(myPathItem1);

////

Is it possible also select the new area text?

thus would have the group and the area text selected.

PD: I tryed to select by layer name, but I presents the error:

No such element

https://forums.adobe.com/message/8095749#8095749

var myLayer = layers["Target Layer"];

[Disposition_Dev]

You never declared the variable "layers". On it's own, 'layers' isn't an element. It's a property of the document object. try this:

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

var layers = docRef.layers;

var myLayer = layers["Target Layer"];

I don't know whether that will fix your selection issue, but that's likely why you got the "No Such Element" error.