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Re: CS3 Javascript - finding the paragraph which contain the index page reference

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From: Peter Kahrel
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:57

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      myPara1Place = myPara1.parent.texts.itemByRange(0, myPara1.index)




myPara1.index returns the index of the first insertion point of the current paragraph within the story (myPara1.parent is a story), which could be in the thousands. But you're addressing probably just one text. It's as if you're asking for twenty lollies when there's just one in the jar.

When you use someobject.itemByRange (start, stop), "stop" must be smaller than (or equal to) the length of "someobject". Since there are (probably) as many characters in a story as there are indexes, in this case that's what you use for itemByRange's scope.

Peter

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