How to start new frame in relation to the position of last frame

[ashishktrig]

Hi All,

I want to start all of my new frames in relation to the postion of the last frame I have added in the document. I want all my frames to be start with with adding two co-ordinaties for y1 and y2 position of the previous frame so how to handle that. for ex. in below example my first frame is started from postion ['3p0', '3p0', '3p0', '3p0'] and I want that my next frame should start by adding y1 and y2 co-odinates by 2 which means for frame2 geometribound position should be ['5p0', '3p0', '5p0', '3p0']  so kindly suggest how can I achieve it.

var document = app.documents.add();
var documentPage = document.pages.add();
var alltextFrames= documentPage.textFrames;
var frame1= alltextFrames.add();
frame1.geometricBounds = ['3p0', '3p0', '3p0', '3p0'];
frame1.contents='frame1';

var frame2= alltextFrames.add();
//frame2.geometricBounds = alltextFrames.lastItem().geometricBounds + ['2p0', '0p0', '2p0', '0p0'];
frame2.contents='frame2';

Regards,

[ashishktrig]

I think I can do it with the help of following code but if anyone have any other good way to handle it then please update

var document = app.documents.add();
var documentPage = document.pages.add();
var alltextFrames= documentPage.textFrames;
var frame1= alltextFrames.add();
frame1.contents='frame1';
frame1.geometricBounds = ['1p0', '2p0', '4p0', '12p0'];
var frame2=addNewFrame(frame1.geometricBounds);
frame2.contents='frame2';

function addNewFrame(geometricArray)
{
var y1,x1,y2,x2;
y1=geometricArray[0]+2;
x1=geometricArray[1];
y2=geometricArray[2]+2;
x2 = geometricArray[3];

var tempFrame=alltextFrames.add();
tempFrame.geometricBounds=[y1,x1,y2,x2]
return tempFrame;
//~ alert(geometricArray);
//~ alert(tempFrame.geometricBounds);
}

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

You could use the duplicate and move method, duplicate will create a new copy of the frame and using move you can move it by a certain amount in some direction relatively. See the following code for reference

var document = app.documents.add();
var documentPage = document.pages.add();
var alltextFrames= documentPage.textFrames;
var frame1= alltextFrames.add();
var orig = app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit 
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.PICAS
frame1.geometricBounds = [0, 0, 3, 3];
frame1.contents='frame1';

var nf = frame1.duplicate()
nf.move(null,[0,2])
nf.contents='frame2';
app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = orig 

-Manan

[ashishktrig]

Thanks Manan,

Your solutions are alway valueable to me.

Thanks & Regards,

Ashish