Hi
I’m learning to script and i write this script (I know, it’s a “nonsense” script).
The script tries to mirror all the words in a document, for example: nonsense > esnesnon.
//SCRIPT//
var g ={};
g.doc = app.activeDocument;
elementosDocumento();
function elementosDocumento() {
for(var i = 0; i < g.doc.pages.length; i ++){ // First loop through the pages of the document
var page = g.doc.pages.item(i); // variable que acumula la página
var pageItems = page.allPageItems; // variable que acumula todos los elementos de la página
for (var j = 0; j < pageItems.length; j ++){ // Second loop, through the items of the current page
var currentItem = pageItems[j]; // variable que acumula el elemento actual
/* Incluir código para actuar con el elemento*/
var currentItemClass = currentItem.constructor.name;
if (currentItemClass == "TextFrame") {
var textBox = currentItem.parentStory;
var textBoxParagraphs = textBox.paragraphs;
var selectedWord_Arr = new Array ();
var mirrorWord = "";
for (var i = 0 ; i < textBoxParagraphs.length ; i++) {
var wordsCount = textBoxParagraphs[i].words;
for (var s = 0; s < wordsCount.length ; s++) {
var myWord = wordsCount[s].characters;
for (var x = 0; x < myWord.length; x++) {
selectedWord_Arr[x] = myWord[x];
}
selectedWord_Arr.reverse();
for (var y = 0; y < selectedWord_Arr.length; y++) {
mirrorWord = mirrorWord + selectedWord_Arr[y].contents;
}
wordsCount[s].contents = mirrorWord;
selectedWord_Arr = [];
mirrorWord = "";
}
}
}
/*FIn incluir código actuar con el elemento*/
}
}
}
I have problems with the characters that are not letters or numbers. When it’s not a number or letter the script adds a number (see the captions) and the character ¿why?
Thanks in advance
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Replies
Maybe try something like this:
var s = app.activeDocument.stories;
var w;
for (var i = 0 ; i < s.length ; i++) {
w = s[i].words;
//a reverse loop that works from the end to the beginning of each story
for (var j = w.length-1; j > -1; j--){
//get the insertion point at the end of each word and set its contents to the reversed string
w[j].insertionPoints[w[j].length].contents = reverseChar(w[j])
};
}
//reverses the content of the provided word
function reverseChar(w){
var rs="";
var c = w.characters;
for (var i = 0 ; i < c.length ; i++) {
rs += c[c.length-(i+1)].contents
}
rs = " " + rs
return rs
}
Ok I see the problem when I use a special character that isn’t white space like a quote— my script will do this:
Changing
rs += c[c.length-(i+1)].contents
to
rs += c[c.length-(i+1)].texts[0].contents
fixes the problem—the quotes get reversed with the text
Thanks!
Hi Rob,
I thought about something like the below code where I do not use texts[0].words[n].contents, but move every single character. Depending on what should be considered a word separator one could get different results. In my screenshot below I am using two different word separators. A simple blank and a regular expression ( that could be refined 😞
Below the code that is working on a selected text frame or selected text with the scope on the story and every character in it:
var textFrame = app.selection[0];
var story = textFrame.parentStory;
/*
let's define a word separator.
This is a really simple one:
*/
var wordSeparator = " ";
var wordSeparator = /[ .!?,“”-]/;
var index = 0;
// Create a new text frame that can be thrown away later:
var tempFrame = app.documents[0].textFrames.add();
/*
Always move the first character of the story.
Change the insertion point of the target after a word separator character was moved.
Do that until all characters are moved.
*/
while( story.characters.length != 0 )
{
// Word separator detected
// With a more ambitious word separator we could use a regular expression at this point
// E.g. opening and closing quotes or any punctuation.
if( story.characters[0].texts[0].contents.match( wordSeparator ) )
{
story.characters[0].move
(
LocationOptions.AFTER ,
tempFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints[-1]
);
index = tempFrame.parentStory.characters.length ;
continue
};
story.characters[0].move
(
LocationOptions.BEFORE ,
tempFrame.parentStory.insertionPoints[ index ]
);
};
/*
Then move the whole new story back to its old text frame:
*/
tempFrame.parentStory.move
(
LocationOptions.BEFORE ,
story.insertionPoints[0]
);
/*
Finally remove the temp text frame:
*/
tempFrame.remove();
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )
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