Is that a CS5 bug (app.findObjectPreferences.fillColor)

Hi Dave,

Are you sure that using NothingEnum.nothing actually works? I think your code will purely unset the fillColor property, so the findObject() method will probably disregard fillColor and return any object whatever its color... But Loic's script needs to match [None] only.

@+

Marc

I don't know about workarounds, but at least I've called this to the attention of some folks at Adobe...

Probably the best you're going to be able to do will be using a loop to examine the fillColor yourself. I don't recall ever scripting find/change of objects (using findObject() or changeObject() ). I've never felt the need to. Looping through all the objects in a document and examining them yourself is generally pretty quick.

Harbs

@Harbs:

I ran the following test to get a list of the default colors and their names.

for(n=0;n<app.colors.length;n++){
    $.writeln("IndexNumber: "+n+"       color.name: "+app.colors.name);
    };

Result:

IndexNumber: 0       color.name: Black
IndexNumber: 1       color.name: C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0
IndexNumber: 2       color.name: C=0 M=100 Y=0 K=0
IndexNumber: 3       color.name: C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0
IndexNumber: 4       color.name: C=100 M=90 Y=10 K=0
IndexNumber: 5       color.name: C=15 M=100 Y=100 K=0
IndexNumber: 6       color.name: C=75 M=5 Y=100 K=0
IndexNumber: 7       color.name: Cyan
IndexNumber: 8       color.name: Magenta
IndexNumber: 9       color.name: Paper
IndexNumber: 10       color.name: Registration
IndexNumber: 11       color.name: Yellow
IndexNumber: 12       color.name: 
IndexNumber: 13       color.name: 

So doc.colors.item(0) should get "Black", but the script threw an error. I tried doc.color.item(0).name and that gave me fill color "Unknown color".
Next I tested the following line:

app.findObjectPreferences.fillColor = app.activeDocument.colors[1].name;

That finally gave me the desired fill color "None".
Very strange to get a read out of C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0 when asking for colors[1].name.
I tested other index values. One should asume that setting fillColor to colors[9].name would yield a fill color [Paper]. But not so. I got "Unknown color". Instead colors[5].name did the trick.

If we take a closer look at the list above colors[12] and [13]  seem to have a empty name like that: ""

"Reasonable" index numbers to use were:
[1] => fillColor [None]
[5] => fillColor [Paper]
[6] => fillColor [Registration]
[11] => fillColor [Black]

What's going on here?

Tested with InDesign CS5 German version 7.0.1.

Tried the same with InDesign CS4 6.0.5 but got only one "hit" at all. Got "Unknown color" also on index 1,5,6. With index 11 I was successful to get fillColor [Black].

Uwe