Index of textFrame in Story

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6 total messages Started by Fred_Goldman Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:19

#1333

Author: Fred_Goldman
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:19

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Given myTF is a textFrame, how would I find out the index of that text frame relative to the parentStory?

Re: Index of textFrame in Story

#1336

Author: Dave_Saunders
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:56

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There's a property called, wait for it, wait for it ... textFrameIndex

Ta-da!

I went looking for it just the other day. I thought it would have been called storyOffset or something like that, but I was reduced to stepping down the list of textFrame properties until I found it.

Dave

Re: Index of textFrame in Story

#1337

Author: Fred_Goldman
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:03

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Perfect!

I never thought it would be that simple or I would've looked through the 
properties myself, thanks Dave!

c

#1343

Author: Harbs
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:34

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Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com wrote:
> There's a property called, wait for it, wait for it ... textFrameIndex
>   

Be very, very careful with that property! The textFrameIndex is counted 
by columns NOT text frames. If you have a two column frame, it 
increments the textFrameIndex by 2 and three; 3 etc.

So, if all your text frames are the same number of columns, you can work 
things out. If there's some single column frames and some multi-column 
frames, the textFrameIndex property is all but useless!

-- 
Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

c

#1453

Author: Fred_Goldman
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:57

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Very interesting, thank for the heads up!

Re: Index of textFrame in Story

#1454

Author: Dave_Saunders
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:32

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OH BOY!

Surely that's a bug!

I'm going to check with my sources.

Dave

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