ScriptUI styles dropdown list : how to access to style groups?

[Nicolas_Balbo]

Hello,

I'm trying to build an UI to select Table, Cell and Paragraph styles for further table processing (see my script below)

So I used dropdown list menus for displaying styles. But I only got first level styles and not style groups and their contents.

My question is : is it possible and how to get dropdown sub-menus to acces to styles groups and their contents?

TIA

Nicolas

My javascript :

//UI to select Table, Cell and Paragraph styles for further tables processing in a document

myStyleChoices = myInput ();

myTableStyle = myStyleChoices[0] ;

myCellSTyle = myStyleChoices[1] ;

myParStyle = myStyleChoices[2] ;

function myInput ()

{

var myParStylesList = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.everyItem().name

var myCellStylesList = app.activeDocument.cellStyles.everyItem().name

var myTableStylesList = app.activeDocument.tableStyles.everyItem().name

var w = new Window ("dialog", "Apply to table :");

var myInputGroup3 = w.add ("group");

myInputGroup3.alignment = "left";

myInputGroup3.add ("statictext", undefined, "Table style :");

var myDropdown3 =myInputGroup3.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, myTableStylesList);

myDropdown3.selection = 1 ;

var myInputGroup2 = w.add ("group");

myInputGroup2.alignment = "left";

myInputGroup2.add ("statictext", undefined, "Cell style :");

var myDropdown2 =myInputGroup2.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, myCellStylesList);

myDropdown2.selection = 1 ;

var myInputGroup1 = w.add ("group");

myInputGroup1.add ("statictext", undefined, "Paragraph style :");

myInputGroup1.alignment = "left";

var myDropdown1 = myInputGroup1.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, myParStylesList);

myDropdown1.selection = 1 ;

var myButtonGroup = w.add ("group");

myButtonGroup.alignment = "right";

myButtonGroup.add ("button", undefined, "OK");

myButtonGroup.add ("button", undefined, "Cancel");

w.show ();

r = [myDropdown3.selection.text , myDropdown2.selection.text , myDropdown1.selection.text] ;

return r ;

}

[bgfrhlp]

Nicolas,

You have probably figures this out already, but since it is nice to find answers here.

doc = app.activeDocument;

// Access to individual style.

firstGroupFirstItem = doc.paragraphStyleGroups.item(0).paragraphStyles[0].name;

// Array of stylenames from the first group.

styleNameArr = doc.paragraphStyleGroups.item(0).paragraphStyles.everyItem().name;

Cheers!

O.

[Loic.Aigon]

Consider myDoc.allParagraphStyles, allCharacterStyles, allObjectStyles…

Loic

Ozalto | Productivity Oriented - Loïc Aigon

[bgfrhlp]

Yes, they are very convenient. How about presenting the groups in a ddl with allParagraphStyles?

[Ronald63]

Hi,

Like this ...

var _AllParaStyles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;
var myParStylesList = new Array()
for(var i=0;i<_AllParaStyles.length;i++){
    if (_AllParaStyles.parent instanceof ParagraphStyleGroup ){
        myParStylesList.push(_AllParaStyles.name.concat(' [',_AllParaStyles.parent.name),']')
    }else{
         myParStylesList.push(_AllParaStyles.name)
     }
}

[Loic.Aigon]

Another approach:

Array.prototype.getExtendedName = function() {
  var n = this.length, i = 0, parent;
  var newArray = [];
  while ( i<n ) {
  parent = ( this.parent instanceof Document )? "" : this.parent.name+"//";
  newArray[ newArray.length ] = parent+this.name;
  i++;
  }


  return newArray;
}


app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles.getExtendedName();

Loic

Ozalto | Productivity Oriented - Loïc Aigon

[Peter Kahrel]

http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/scriptui.html

See pp. 46-47.