How to: Text Thread

[eboda_snaf]

Hi,

How to write Javascript

1. to Change the Text Thread color?

2. to Show the text thread?

Thanks a million!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

How to write Javascript

1. to Change the Text Thread color?

what do you mean - color of Text, color of background of TextFrames, color of TextFrames edges, etc. ?

2. to Show the text thread?

and again - show what ? lines between TextFrames showing TextFrames links ? or something else ?

robin

www.adobescripts.co.uk

[eboda_snaf]

to change the thread color, mine text thread is light gray in color.

Can change this color using JS?

Thanks alot.

[eboda_snaf]

and also using JS to Show the text thread..

[Dave_Saunders]

A text thread doesn't have a color, per se. It inherits the color from the UI color of the layer holding the text frames. Specifically, the thread connector is shown using the color of the "before" text frame.

So, to change the color, you can either change the UI color of the layer holding the text frames or change the itemLayer of the frames.

As to your second question, I don't think the show text threads option is exposed to scripting.

Dave

[Jongware]

I don't think the show text threads option is exposed to scripting.

I searched in vain for text threads, first in ViewPreferences (the logical place), then with an exhaustive search all through the help. It's not there.

A strange omission, although not one that has been reported AWOL straightaway, so perhaps it's not that crucial to anyone else. Perhaps Ole knows why, if there is reason.

[eboda_snaf]

pardon me.. who's Ole?

Is he/she from Adobe?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

hi

Ole is "he" and is from Adobe

you can find him somewhere here on forum

robin

www.adobescripts.co.uk

[Harbs.]

To further enlighten you: Ole's full name is Olav Martin Kvern. He's the one who started this (scripting) forum and he "wrote the book" on InDesign and scripting (many of them...)

Harbs

[eboda_snaf]

Oh.. so I know another Indesign expert here in this forum.

anyway..

I would like to thank you people who have offered help and advice to an Indesign novice like me.

Many Thanks to You!!

[WölfNorgren · Accepted solution]

you can use:

app.menuActions.item("$ID/Show Text Threads").invoke();

to show the linkages between text boxes (it is the same as selecting the menu 'View:Show Text Threads")

app.menuActions.item("$ID/Hide Text Threads").invoke();

will hide them.

I did a quick test, and there's something funky going on behind the scenes if you manually turn threads on and off through the menus, but this code seems to be reliable regardless of initial setting.

var showThreads = app.menuActions.item("$ID/Show Text Threads");

try {showThreads.invoke()} catch (givenError){};

var hideThreads = app.menuActions.item("$ID/Hide Text Threads");

try {hideThreads.invoke()} catch (givenError){};

Note that this actually leaves threads "ON", but that's why it's 'funky'. (Or I'm just not getting what's actually going on...)

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Wölf

[eboda_snaf]

ya.. it works somehow. I also don't really understand

Thanks alot!