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Re: referencing color problem (AS)

#18882
From: Chris Baier
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:03
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I find this method a little too wordy.

This works:

set fill color of text frame 1 to color id 18 of document 1

but these don't:

			set fill color of text frame 1 to color "Black" of document 1
			set fill color of text frame 1 to swatch "Black" of document 1

this works:

tell document 1
     		set myColor to swatch "Black" of document 1

	 	tell spread 1
	 		set fill color of text frame 1 to myColor

end tell
     end tell

and this works:

	tell document 1
		 set myColor to swatch "Black" of document 1
		 set fill color of text frame 1 of spread 1 to swatch "Black"
   end tell

and this does:

tell spread 1
         set newFrame to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{"0p0", "0p0", "18p0", "18p0"}, contents:"The End", name:"TitleBox", fill color:color id 18 of document 1}
     end tell

but this doesn't:

			 set newFrame to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{"0p0", "0p0", "18p0", "18p0"}, contents:"The End", name:"TitleBox", fill color:swatch "Black" of document 1}

It seems odd that I can refer to a color by it's ID # in the "spread" context but not by name in the same context.
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