table draw!

[sandu_aurel]

Hello,

How can I draw a table using scripts?

Note that my table may have spanned rows and/or columns!

Many thanks,

Aurel

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

@Aurel:
JavaScript: basically by adding a table object to an insertionPoint of a text frame or a story.

If you have selected an empty text frame:

var myTable = app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].tables.add();

Then add columns (4) and rows (10) to the table:

myTable.columnCount = 4; //Limit: 200
myTable.bodyRowCount = 10 //Limit: 10.000 ???

This table will span the whole text frame, all four columns evenly devided.

For more properties and methods for text frames, insertionPoints, tables, columns, rows and cells see Jongware's excellent documentation of the DOM:

http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html

Uwe

[sandu_aurel]

Many thanks!