Delete conditional text

blockstation said:

"I've got several documents open and I'd like to delete in all documents the applied condition, while the text of the condition is preserved."

Hi blockstation,

you want to do something entirely else than our OP here wanted. You want to remove conditions, he wanted to remove text where a specific condition was applied to.

So you need different code. It has nothing to do with a GREP Find/Replace action.

Conditions are properties of the document. And can be removed if you know the names.

Examples:

So you should be able to remove a condition named "foo" from the document like that:

app.documents[0].conditions.itemByName("foo").remove();

If you want to do that for all open documents:

app.documents.everyItem().conditions.itemByName("foo").remove();

If you want to remove all conditions from all open documents:

app.documents.everyItem().conditions.everyItem().remove();

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Or maybe just this:

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedConditions = ['red'];
app.selection[0].changeGrep();

Peter

Try this:

(function removeConditionalText(/*Text*/tx,/*UIColor*/uiColor,/*bool=false*/STRICT)
// -------------------------------------
// Remove any text within tx having a uiColor condition applied.
// (If STRICT is true, do not affect text undergoing multiple conditions.)
{
    var ranges = tx.textStyleRanges,
        a = ranges.everyItem().getElements(),
        conds = ranges.everyItem().appliedConditions,
        i = a.length,
        t, c;

    while( i-- )
        {
        t = conds;

        if( STRICT && t.length != 1 ) continue;
        while( (c=t.pop()) && !(c=c.indicatorColor==uiColor) );
        if( c ) a.remove();

        }
    
})(app.selection[0],UIColors.RED);

@+

Marc