Object style script

[Channers]

Hello! Does anyone know how to change the code below from "Object Style 1" to the currently selected object style that's selected? So that I don't need to input the style name, but click on the object and it'll find the other objects that have the same object style applied.

var combineMe = new Array;

app.findObjectPreferences = null;

app.findObjectPreferences.appliedObjectStyles = "Object Style 1"

found_list = app.activeDocument.findObject();

for (a=0; a<found_list.length; a++) {

if (found_list[a] instanceof TextFrame) {

combineMe.push(found_list[a]);

}

}

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

[brianp311 · Accepted solution]

See below. 

app.findObjectPreferences.appliedObjectStyles = app.selection[0].appliedObjectStyle.name;

[Channers]

Thank you a ton!!

[M.Hasanin]

Hi,

this trick not work for Object Style inside Group? I tried to modfiy it and make some reseach but no success, something like that came to my imagination (not work) :

var myOSGStyle = app.selection[0].parent.constructor.name == "ObjectStyleGroup"
app.findObjectPreferences.appliedObjectStyles = myOSGStyle.appliedObjectStyle.name;

 So this is not work, but maybe you have another experince with this problem, and thanks in advance

[Manan Joshi]

Try the following

app.findObjectPreferences.appliedObjectStyles = app.selection[0].appliedObjectStyle

-Manan 

[M.Hasanin]

Thanks a lot @Manan Joshi , that was pretty easy!, javascript some times is so strange!

[Manan Joshi]

Hi @M.Hasanin,

It's not strange, you need to be a bit more thoughtful while reading the API definition. appliedObjecStyle can take argument in the form of a string or object I suppose. So if the name is giving you pains which makes sense due to it being inside a group then you can use the style object and that should work, if you have a valid object it does not matter where it resides in the panel. Just a bit of informed guess I would say.

-Manan

[M.Hasanin]

Thanks @Manan Joshi  for the clarifications, I learned new skills today