[CS3 JS] Exchange Character Style Problem!

[_Lee_Fielding_]

Hello experienced JS people,
The situation is as follows -
I have a document that MAY have the Character Style 'A'.
If this were to be true - then I'd like to exchange it for Character Style 'B'.
Sounds simple doesn't it.... It's KILLING ME!

This must be possible? The problem is - I don't know how!

My scripting lookes like this so far:
> app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "File name";
app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "Document No";
oneDoc.changeText();

Help would be greatly welcomed....
Thanks in advance,
Lee

[Loic.Aigon]

Have a try with :
var styletofind = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item("File name");
var styletochange = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item("Document No");
app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = styletofind; app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = styletochange;
oneDoc.changeText();

[_Dave_Saunders_]

I think the problem is in the word "MAY".

You need to have a test for existence:

var styletofind = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item("File name");

if (styletofind != null) {

  var styletochange = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item("Document No");

  app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = styletofind;

  app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = styletochange;

  oneDoc.changeText();

}

But even this might not be enough if the character styles in question are in groups.

Dave

[_Lee_Fielding_]

Thank you both for your inputs.

I have tried them both, and the results are:
- Text with '[None]' character style are changed to 'Document No' character style.
and
- Text with 'File Name' character style are not changed!

What can it be?

[_Lee_Fielding_]

Forget what I just wrote...

You can obviously see that I am a newbee at all this coding!
The problem was 'File name' is not in the document.
Where as 'File Name' is.
Case sensertive!

This is what happens when you have looked at the script for many days....!

So it's working now - Thank you both, very much!
Regards,
Lee