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Hi,
as AS doesn't provide 'everyItem()' you've got to set the new object refrence.
A bit complicated 😉
In my case the class is rectangle, you've got to cycle thru classes to make a universal approach.
this works with a group of rectangles:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
tell active document
set myGroup to group 1
set myTest to item 1 of (all page items of myGroup)
set {myClass, myId} to {class, id} of object reference of myTest
ungroup myGroup
if myClass is rectangle then set myObjectRefernce to item 1 of (every rectangle whose id is myId)
end tell
end tell
Hope it'll be of some help 
Hans-Gerd Claßen
EDIT!!!
Guess it is easier as you can refer to 'page item', so just extract the id...
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
tell active document
set myGroup to group 1
set myTest to item 1 of (all page items of myGroup)
set myId to id of object reference of myTest
ungroup myGroup
set myObjectRefernce to item 1 of (every page item whose id is myId)
end tell
end tell
Good morning,
just the method:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
tell active document
set myGroup to group 1
set myGroupItems to (all page items of myGroup)
set counter to 0
repeat with i from 1 to count of myGroupItems
set counter to counter + 1
set theItem to item i of myGroupItems
set theLabel to "customLabel" & counter
theItem insert label key "theCustomLabel" value theLabel
end repeat
ungroup myGroup
repeat with j from 1 to count of page items
try
set myLabel to page item j extract label key "theCustomLabel"
select page item j
display dialog myLabel
end try
end repeat
end tell
end tell
Have a good day
P.S. to keep talking about id change to thisline :
| set theLabel to "" & id of theItem |
One more specific thing about what can happen if we do not look much into
WHEN, HOW and WHAT we ask by:
1. using the JavaScript Console of the ESTK or
2. using $.writeln() or alert():
Example from above:
Have one group of rectangles only.
every holds group.pageItems.everyItem()
We set a breakpoint to the code here:
myGroup.ungroup()
before app.select(every) in the next line can be executed.
Run 1 of script until breakpoint.
JavaScript Console input and returned values:
every
Result: [object PageItem]
every.isValid
Result: true
every
Result: [object PageItem]
Run 2 of script until breakpoint.
JavaScript Console input and returned values:
every
Result: [object PageItem]
every.constructor.name
Result: PageItem
every
Result: [object Rectangle]
In both cases every is resolved and the script will run without errors even if the explicit script code is not resolving every.
Running the script without any ado will result in an error.
Regards,
Uwe
// EDIT
In reply 13 I said:
Hm.
So if we want to know e.g. what every is we should consult the Data Browser of the ESTK and not ask the JavaScript Console or do a $.writeln() or an alert(). But maybe the Data Browser cannot tell all we want to know before resolving…
That's wrong.
Using the Data Browser of the ESTK and clicking one of the triangles to see what's in an object will also resolve the asked element.
In my case every. Not only that, it will act like every.constructor.name and if I ask every in the JavaScript Console [object Rectangle] instead of [object PageItem] will be shown:
Screen 1: Breakpoint is reached. DataBrowser is open. Variable every is still not inspected in the DataBrowser.
every in the JavaScript Console returns [object PageItem]
Screen 2: Variable every is opened in the Data Browser:
Screen 3: In this moment every is resolved. Because if I run this script to the end after opening every in the Data Browser, the script is running without error. Without inspecting the variable in the Data Browser the script will throw an error.
Back to the moment I opened the variable in the Data Browser:
If I ask every again in the JavaScript Console it is as if I asked every.constructor.name in the JavaScript Console.
Because every will return [object Rectangle] now for my group of rectangles. And the Data Browser is also showing this after asking:
Regards,
Uwe
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