Can't remove all Rectangles

[Guest]

Hi,

the code below should

1) open a INDD file

2) traverse all pages

3) grab all the rectangles from that page

4) and delete them.

things that work:

the script traverses trough all the pages (4 pages)

he finds all the rectangles on that page

but then:

when there are for example 5 items on that page, he shows me in that there are 5 items on that page, but when he goes in the second while loop, he only does it 3 times, when he actually should loop 5 times... that's so strange.

Result: a indd file with only a few rectangles removed, and some remain...

So, if someone could help me/show me, that would be awesome!

Thanks !

Tha code!

destination =  app.open(File("/Users/anders/Desktop/46a93e71-b6bc-477f-abfd-3221f527dc44/VerticalDMA5.indd"));

destination.documentPreferences.facingPages = false;

var pages = destination.pages;
var page;
var pageItems;
var v = 0;
var z = 0;

$.writeln ("pages = " + pages.length)
while(z < pages.length) {
    page = pages;
    pageItems = page.rectangles;
    $.writeln ("number of items on page = " + pageItems.count())
    while(v < pageItems.length) {
        pageItem = pageItems;
        $.writeln("PageItem: "+pageItem+" ID: "+pageItem.id);
        pageItem.remove();
        v = v + 1;
    }
    v = 0;
    z = z + 1;

}

[Peter Schuelke]

Hi,

I'm a C++ programmer not a scripter, but the bug is obvious:

Jou have a list/arry of page items and remove from first to last index incrementing with each iteration.

This will delete item[0] and increment to list/array index 1, holding the third page item, as you just deleted the first.

So do a while ( list.length ) delete item[0] or alike.

Best,

Peter Schülke

[Guest]

Ohh! off course! That's so obvious!

thanks a lot, that did the trick!

[Dirk Becker]

You may also want to simplify your code:

#target "InDesign"

app.activeDocument.rectangles.everyItem().remove();

Dirk