VBS CS5: compund paths unite

[Gospodnetic]

Hello,

I am having a problem. I want to draw several shapes and unite them as one shape through VBS, so there would be no borders inside them. The best thing I have manage to do is to ad paths via compoundPahtItems, but the problem is it only combine them together, it doesn't actually unite them.

could you help me out? and maybe post me a short example of such VBScript

thank you in advance!

[Larry G. Schneider]

You may have to use the doScript construct to run an Action that you have created to use the Pathfinder menu and Add to Shape. I'm on a Mac so don't have a lot of experience with VB scripts but I believe you can use the doScript to do what you want.

[CarlosCanto]

pathFinder commands are not available to scripting, as Larry said you have to record and action that unites your paths first, then call it from your vbs.

in this sample I named the action "pathFinderUnite", it is located in the "Set 2" actions folder. In your script, once you have selected all the paths you need to unite, call the action like this

iapp.DoScript "pathFinderUnite","Set 2" 

iapp is my Illustrator variable

[Gospodnetic]

I have managed to unite them as I wanted, thank you very much!

I have one more question - how do I reference that new shape?

[CarlosCanto]

after uniting the paths, the resulting path is still selected, so you could use

myNewUnitedPath = iapp.ActiveDocument.Selection(0)

edit:

200 post!!! hurray!!

[Gospodnetic]

Thank you both Larry and Carlos,

I shall try that and let you know how it worked for me!

[Gospodnetic]

I have managed to unite them as I wanted, thank you very much!

I have one more question - how do I reference that new shape?