select document -1

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November 13, 2020
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I have several opened documents, manually selected is the last one

How I can select the previous opened document with script?

(I want to loop all)

How I can get the selected document index?

Scripting

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Correct answer pixxxelschubser

I don't know what exactly you want.

But give this snippet a try:

(Requirement: Three or more documents are already open in Illustrator)

var docs = app.documents;
alert(docs[0].name + " is active");
// way no.1
app.activeDocument = docs[1]; // was previous active - is active now
$.sleep (1000);
// way no.2
app.documents[2].activate(); // was second last active document - is active now

femkeblanco

Legend

The index of documents[i] is the reverse order in which the document was active. I.e. 0 is active, 1 was active before 0, 2 was active before 1, etc.

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

document indexing is dynamic. The first element in the collection is always the currently open document. If you open or activate another document, that would become the first document. The second document will be the document that was active prior to activating the current one.

pixxxelschubser

Correct answer

Community Expert

I don't know what exactly you want.

But give this snippet a try:

(Requirement: Three or more documents are already open in Illustrator)

var docs = app.documents;
alert(docs[0].name + " is active");
// way no.1
app.activeDocument = docs[1]; // was previous active - is active now
$.sleep (1000);
// way no.2
app.documents[2].activate(); // was second last active document - is active now

S

siomospAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you for your code, I will try it and post back

Panagiotis

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