I have a variable number of objects in a page – for example 4
rectangles- and I need to know which one is the left-top most, (I’m
scripting InDesign CS2) so I get the geometric bounds of all this
objects and I get a list of lists
My typical list looks like {{5.0, 120.0, 40.0, 169.0}, {10.0, 10.0,
50.0, 59.0}, {70.0, 20.0, 110.0, 69.0}, {70.0, 80.0, 110.0, 128.0}}
So basically I need to compare the first 2 items (y, x) of every
list in that main list, in this example the order (Left/Right,
clock wise) is
1.- second list, 2.- first list, 3.- third list, 4.- fourth list
I think, at the first moment that it’s pretty simple, but for my
disgrace I found that after many hours of try to write an algorithm
to to this, I have nothing, :-((
Anyone have something in this way or can someone point me in the
right direction?
Your help will be appreciated.
Not clear from your description what results you want, but if what
you want is a measure of which window is
closest to (0,0), then what you want is to order them by the sum of
the squares of the first two numbers,
which in this case would give you:
