Hello to everyone!
I'm trying to find a way to get a reference to a page that is selected in Pages panel but not necessary is active one.
If I understand this correctly in the below example pages 2-3 are active even though page 4 is selected.
app.activeWindow.activePage - command will give reference to page number 2.
But what with page number 4? I can't find any method.
Thanks in advance,
jf
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Hi together,
below some code that is looking for active pages in the Pages panel where the property pageColor is exploited.
Since pageColor cannot be applied individuallly on pages on a given masterSpread—all pages on a master spread are colored the same, if you apply pageColor to a single page, one cannot detect if a single page on a master is selected in the Pages panel.
However, for selected document pages the function is working as it should.
Notes and some important issues:
1. The cod
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Here some code for InDesign CS6 only where I exploit property optionalPage of the Page object:
// CODE EDITED BECAUSE MOVING THIS THREAD TO THE NEW FORUM CHANGED THE CODE:
/**
* @@@BUILDINFO@@@ GetPages-SELECTED-IN-PAGES-PANEL-v1.0.jsx !Version! Fri Jan 13 2017 11:41:41 GMT+0100
*/
/*
Script published at Adobe InDesign Scripting forum:
active page vs selected page
Jarek Foltman Jan 10, 2017
https://forums.adobe.com/message/9251733#9251733
*/
// CS6 ONLY !!
// Example usage:
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;
app.doScript
(
addTextFrameToSelectedPagesInThePagesPanel,
ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,
[],
UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT,
"Add text frame to the selected pages in the Pages panel | SCRIPT"
);
// USE CASE EXAMPLE:
function addTextFrameToSelectedPagesInThePagesPanel()
{
if(parseInt(app.version) != 8 )
{
alert
(
"SORRY:"+"\r"+
"This is script can ONLY work with InDesign CS6."
);
return
}
var doc = app.documents[0];
var selectedPagesArray = getSelectedPagesInPagesPanel();
for(var n=0;n<selectedPagesArray.length;n++)
{
var textFrame = selectedPagesArray[n].textFrames.add
(
{
geometricBounds : selectedPagesArray[n].bounds ,
fillColor : doc.colors.itemByName("Yellow") ,
strokeColor : "None" ,
contents : "Selected in Pages panel."
}
)
textFrame.texts[0].pointSize = 80;
textFrame.texts[0].justification = Justification.CENTER_ALIGN;
textFrame.textFramePreferences.verticalJustification = VerticalJustification.CENTER_ALIGN;
}
};
// Will return empty array or array with pages
// Could be pages of master spreads or document pages
function getSelectedPagesInPagesPanel()
{
var resultArray = [];
if(app.documents.length == 0){return resultArray };
// What happens, if the Pages panel is closed?
// Is the selection of pages still valid?
// RESULT AFTER TESTING:
// If the Pages panel is closed, after opening it again, the first page of the document is always selected.
// So it's best I think to do nothing if the Pages panel is closed.
// Return empty array:
if(!app.panels.itemByName("$ID/Pages").visible){return resultArray };
var doc = app.documents[0];
var oldOptionalPages = app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().optionalPage;
var oldOptionalMasterPages = app.documents[0].masterSpreads.everyItem().pages.everyItem().optionalPage;
var docPages = doc.pages.everyItem().getElements();
var masterPages = doc.masterSpreads.everyItem().pages.everyItem().getElements();
doc.pages.everyItem().optionalPage = false;
doc.masterSpreads.everyItem().pages.everyItem().optionalPage = false;
try
{
app.menus.item("$ID/PagesPanelPopup").
submenus.itemByName("$ID/PageAttributesSubMenu").
menuItems.itemByName("$ID/kOptionalPageMenuItem").
associatedMenuAction.invoke();
}catch(e)
{
// Master "None" selected in the Pages Panel
return resultArray;
}
var optionalPages = app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().optionalPage;
var optionalPagesLength = optionalPages.length;
var optionalMasterPages = app.documents[0].masterSpreads.everyItem().pages.everyItem().optionalPage;
var optionalMasterPagesLength = optionalMasterPages.length;
for(var n=0;n<optionalPagesLength;n++)
{
if(optionalPages[n] == true)
{
resultArray[resultArray.length++] = docPages[n];
};
// Reset the old value:
docPages[n].optionalPage = oldOptionalPages[n];
};
for(var n=0;n<optionalMasterPagesLength;n++)
{
if(optionalMasterPages[n] == true)
{
resultArray[resultArray.length++] = masterPages[n];
};
// Reset the old value:
masterPages[n].optionalPage = oldOptionalMasterPages[n];
};
return resultArray;
};
Some screenshots:
Case A, document pages selected in the Pages panel.
Before running the script:
After running the script:
Case B, master pages selected in the Pages panel.
Before running the script:
After running the script:
Regards,
Uwe
Thank you, Uwe, for this clever workaround! It's sad that Adobe has no recommended way to determine selected pages.
It seems all your [n] loop parameters are missing in the script example. Perhaps they were destroyed in the forum update some months ago? Here are the changes I made to test your example, and then it ran perfectly. Tested in CC2018 and CC2019 as well.
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