how to select textframe(any object) by its ID?

[_Dmitry1776_]

very short question.
this doesn't work:
myIndi.Select myPage.PageItemID(1321)

what is right synthaxis?

thanks.

[_Robert_Tkaczyk_]

myDoc.AllPageItems.ItemByID(1321)

or

myDoc.PageItems.ItemByID(1321)

robin

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[Harbs.]

Robert Tkaczyk wrote:
> myDoc.AllPageItems.ItemByID(1321)
>

Robin,
Are you saying allPageItems is a collection in VB?

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[_Robert_Tkaczyk_]

yes

Property AllPageItems As Objects
read-only
Member of InDesign.Document
Lists all page items contained by the Document.

Property PageItems As PageItems
read-only
Member of InDesign.Document
The page items collection, which can be used to process all page items in a container (such as a document, page, or group), regardless of type.

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[Harbs.]

Robert Tkaczyk wrote:
> yes
>

??? I read that as: allPageItems is returned as an array (as it is in
JS). You can't use itemByID on an array. pageItems is a collection.

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[_Robert_Tkaczyk_]

in VB, when I run this code (after initialising connection to InDesign and to Document, etc.):

Private Sub Command3_Click()
MsgBox (TypeName(myDoc.AllPageItems.Item(1)))
MsgBox (TypeName(myDoc.PageItems.Item(1)))
End Sub


I'll have the same result twice, for example "TextFrame" if in my document first item is TextFrame

robin

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[Harbs.]

Hmm.

Sounds like you're right in VB.

In JS though, this throws an error on the first line, but alerts the
object on the second:

try{alert(app.documents[0].allPageItems.item(1))}catch(e){alert(e)}
try{alert(app.documents[0].pageItems.item(1))}catch(e){alert(e)}

Interesting...

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[_Dmitry1776_]

more correct (as i found):
myPage.PageItems.ItemByID(1321)

many thanks, Robert

[_Robert_Tkaczyk_]

right 😉 you work on Page ;)

robin

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[Econometric]

Robert, I was hoping you could help me.  In your code: myPage.PageItems.ItemByID(1321), how do you obtain the ID#, in your case 1321?  Do you get it from the InDesign document?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Mike

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Econometric wrote:

Robert, I was hoping you could help me.  In your code: myPage.PageItems.ItemByID(1321), how do you obtain the ID#, in your case 1321?  Do you get it from the InDesign document?

Every object - except text (Text, Paragraph, Character, TextColumn, etc.) - have unique ID, so in ID CS3/4:

myTF_ID = myDoc.Stories.Item(1).TextContainers.Item(1).ID

Set myTF = myDoc.TextFrames.ItemById(myTF_ID)

This ID shouldn't change between save->close->open document, but you can't rely on it.

If you need to find particular object - you should use .Label property - but you need to be sure, that user won't change it. You can use .InsertLabel(myLabel, value) method - but then you can't use label assigned this way in .Item(myLabel) to retrieve this object.

robin

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