How read stroke type in dropdownlist?

[Johnwhite]

Hi experts,

my script like this:

function mDialog ()
{
    mMsg.funName = "mDialog";
 var 
        colorList = app.activeDocument.swatches.everyItem().name,
        strokeTypeList = app.activeDocument.strokeType.everyItem().name,
  curPartHistory = eval( app.extractLabel(mMsg.title) );
 if (!curPartHistory || false) 
  curPartHistory = {
   w: 0,
   c: 0
   };
     var
        w1 = new Window("dialog","", undefined, {closeButton: false}),   
            mPanel = w1.add("panel", undefined, "Add cell’s bottom edge"),
                mSpace = mPanel.add("group"),
                topLine = mPanel.add("group"),
                    mSt = topLine.add("statictext", undefined, "Line weight: "),
                    mEd = topLine.add("edittext", undefined, String(curPartHistory.w) ),
                    mSt1 = topLine.add("statictext", undefined, "pt"),
               botLine = mPanel.add("group"),
                    mSt2 = botLine.add("statictext", undefined, "Line color: "),
                    mDD = botLine.add("dropdownlist", undefined, colorList),
               botLine = mPanel.add("group"),
                    mSt3 = botLine.add("statictext", undefined, "Stroke type: "),
                    mLL = botLine.add("dropdownlist", undefined, strokeTypeList),
        mButtons = w1.add("group");
 mButtons.add ('button', undefined, "取り消す", {name: "Cancel"}); 
 mButtons.add ('button', undefined, "OK", {name: "OK"});
    mSt1.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont ("Verdana", "Italic", 10);
    mPanel.alignChildren= "left";
    mEd.characters = 3;
    mDD.selection = curPartHistory.c<colorList.length ? mDD.items[curPartHistory.c] : mDD.items[0];
    w1.location = [150,150];
    //|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DIALOG OUTPUT |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||   
 if (w1.show() ==1 ) {
  with (curPartHistory) {
   w = Number(mEd.text);
   c = mDD.selection.index;
   }
  app.insertLabel(mMsg.title, curPartHistory.toSource() );
  return curPartHistory;
  }
 else exit(); 
    }

if read my color swatches like this:

colorList = app.activeDocument.swatches.everyItem().name,

How can define the stroke, and read the stroke type in list:

strokeTypeList = app.activeDocument.strokeType.everyItem().name,

above like  seems not the correct syntax

could some one show me how, please.

thanks

regar

John

[Laubender]

Hi John,

strokeType is no property of document.

You could walk through the strokeStyles of a document.

For strokeStyle we have property strokeStyleType.

The value of  strokeStyleType for the build in strokeStyles is an empty string.

For the custom ones a user has added, the value is different. E.g. "Streifen" if it is added with a German InDesign.

Below an example from a document with my German InDesign where a user added a custom stroke style with strokeType striped ( "Streifen" 😞

var doc = app.documents[0] ;
var docStrokeStyles = doc.strokeStyles ;
var docStrokeStylesLength = docStrokeStyles.length;
var resultArray = [];
for( var n=0; n<docStrokeStylesLength ; n++ )
{
    resultArray =
        n +"\t"+
        docStrokeStyles.name +"\t" +
        app.findKeyStrings( docStrokeStyles.name ).join("\t") ; // Always returns an array
    if( docStrokeStyles.strokeStyleType == "" )
    {
        continue ;
    };
    resultArray = resultArray +"\t"+
    docStrokeStyles.strokeStyleType +"\t"+
    app.findKeyStrings( docStrokeStyles.strokeStyleType ).join("\t") ;
};
$.writeln( resultArray.join("\r") );
/*
Result from my German InDesign with a document where a user defined one custom stroke style.
It's strokeStyleType in my German InDesign is "Streifen". International string for this is "$ID/Stripe_DefaultInstName".
0    Dreifach    $ID/Triple_Stroke
1    Breit - Schmal - Breit    $ID/ThickThinThick
2    Schmal - Breit - Schmal    $ID/ThinThickThin
3    Breit - Breit    $ID/ThickThick
4    Breit - Schmal    $ID/ThickThin
5    Schmal - Breit    $ID/ThinThick
6    Schmal - Schmal    $ID/ThinThin
7    Japanische Punkte    $ID/Japanese Dots
8    Weiße Rauten    $ID/White Diamond
9    Schraffiert (nach links geneigt)    $ID/Left Slant Hash
10    Schraffiert (nach rechts geneigt)    $ID/Right Slant Hash
11    Schraffiert (gerade)    $ID/Straight Hash
12    Wellenlinie    $ID/Wavy    $ID/#ConditionTagOptions_WavyUnderline
13    Gepunktet    $ID/Canned Dotted    $ID/Dotted_DefaultInstName    $ID/Dotted_MetadataName
14    Gestrichelt (3 und 2)    $ID/Canned Dashed 3x2
15    Gestrichelt (4 und 4)    $ID/Canned Dashed 4x4
16    Gestrichelt    $ID/Dashed    $ID/#ConditionTagOptions_DashedUnderline
17    Durchgezogen    $ID/Solid    $ID/#ConditionTagOptions_SolidUnderline
18    CustomStrokeStyle-1        Streifen    $ID/Stripe_DefaultInstName    $ID/Stripe_MetadataName
*/

Regards,
Uwe

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Maybe the following will get you what you are finding

app.activeDocument.strokeStyles.everyItem().name

-Manan

[Johnwhite]

Hi Man,

thank you for your help.

but how to show the line type in the dropdownlist?

something like this:

thanks

regard

John