Re: What use is an object's ID?

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From: Shane Stanley
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:29

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It turns out that in the one place I could have sworn I needed to use them
instead of object references, I don't have to at all -- object references
are even more robust than I thought. For example, if I run:

t ell application "InDesign 2.0.1"
 make document
 set x to make rectangle at document 1
 tell x
  set content type to text type
  set properties of parent story to {contents:"Some text"}
  class
 end tell
end tell

and I look at the log, I see:

    get class of rectangle id 127 of page id 119 of spread id 114 of
document "Untitled-1"
    -->    text frame

Clearly, the fact that the class of the item has changed from rectangle to
text frame does not matter; all that matters is that the ID matches.

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au

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