Text variable to add swatch names to text box.

@Peter Kahrel said: "What does that number mean?"

Hi Peter,

after some tests with doc.findColor() it seems that the returned number is the number of found items.

Not very helpful. Initially I had hopes, that page items and texts were returned stored to an array. But I can already see in the DOM documentation, that only a number will be returned.

findColor() is very limited.

Only available with app and document.

Exactly like the GUI is showing this.

To collect the found items I tested a menuAction for "Find Next" with the internal name "$ID/Find Next" that returns two id numbers when done with app.menuActions.itemByName("$ID/Find Next").id : 18695 and 18706. Because Find/Change Colors was only introduced recently I tried the higher ID number when the Find/Change interface was showing a valid Find for a color.

/*
	menuAction with name "$ID/Find Next" below.
	Found two id numbers for this: 18695,18706
	The one with 18706 seems to be the one for Find/Change Color
*/

app.menuActions.itemByID(18706).invoke();

/*
	invoke()
	provoked a reaction in the GUI.
	Message: No item found.
*/

But it only provoked a message in the GUI that nothing could be found.

From my German InDesign 2022 on Windows 10:

Still, I'm looking for a way with menu actions to select a found item, so that I can collect the found items in an array…

The number of iterations to call for invoke() is clear. That's the number doc.findColor() or app.findColor() returns.

I have not much hope to be successful with this…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

Incidentally for scripters of the world, note that doc.findColor() returns a Number, not an array as with the other find operations. Today I learned. 

Hi @denisep726548 ,

why do you run that script from a Version 6.0 Scripts folder?

That would reset and restrict all scripting features to InDesign CS4 from about 14 years ago.

Do not do that with a recent version of InDesign and script code that is meant for that version.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

Can you describe a little more what you need. A list of all swatches in the doc?