script for print (show) text of text frame on the alert

[shahriara7551080]

hi .

i want script for copy text of text frame  and print text frame in alert.

how select All characters in the text frame.

[vladan saveljic]

you should ask it here

InDesign Scripting

[Laubender]

Hi shahriara7551080 ,

how do you like to address your text frame in the document?

Do you like to select the text frame? Or do you know that there is only one text frame in the document? Or on a distinct page? Or does it have a special name or a label…?

Whatever you do to reach the text frame, assign it to a variable.

Let's pretend the variable name is simply textFrame, then you could alert the contents like that using ExtendScript (JavaScript):

// Let's pretend the text frame is selected by the user:
var textFrame = app.selection[0];
alert( textFrame.texts[0].contents );

You really should ask scripting questions here:

InDesign Scripting

Regards,
Uwe

[Ten A]

This thread moved from InDesign to InDesign Scripting.

Thank you for notify Laubender.

[shahriara7551080]

first:

i want copy contents text frame

then past to a variable.

second :

I want to put the content (text ) textframe in the textbox c#.

pleas help me.

[ashish25786013lca1]

@shahriara7551080 have you find any solution yet...?

[Laubender]

Hi @ashish25786013lca1 ,

did you try my suggestion from March 2018?

A variation on this:

// ExtendScript (JavaScript) code
// Let's pretend the text frame is selected by the user:

var textFrame = app.selection[0];
var textOfTextFrame = textFrame.texts[0];
// Select the text, not the text frame:
textOfTextFrame.select();
// Copy the selected text to the clipboard:
app.copy();
// Alert the contents of the text:
alert( textOfTextFrame.contents );

Did I miss something?

@shahriara7551080 wasn't very clear what the script should do.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )