Title: Re: SCRIPTING INDESIGN: Question About
Labels
Thanks, Shane. Two queries inline below.
Rick
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On 10/16/06 at 8:25 PM +1000, Shane Stanley wrote in a message
entitled
"Re: SCRIPTING INDESIGN: Question About Labels":
On 16/10/06 7:54 PM, "Rick Gordon"
<email@hidden> wrote:
> 1) How do you delete keys and their associated values? There does
not appear
> to be a delete label key command.
Just set them to an empty
string.
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Ah, I see now that using extract label to a
non-existing key does not generate an error, it returns an empty
string.
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> 2) Why does this appear to be
completely separate from the label string
> (unkeyed) that is accessible through the Script Labels palette or
through the
> syntax...
>
> set label to <VALUE_AS_STRING>
>
> ...and...
>
> get label
Because it *is* completely separate from the label string. It's really
a way
of storing data associated with an element. By allowing you to set a
key,
you don't have to worry about other scripts accidentally deleting your
data.
>
> 3) Why do the keys not show up as a property value of the
object(s) to which
> they're associated with?
Because they're not properties, they're
objects.
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OK, this is clearer now. So, short of a
repeat loop running through each object, is there some way to seek out
every object that has a key with some specific name? As with plain
labels, you could do:
set itemList to
every
item
of all
page items whose label is "WHATEVER"
The best I can come up with with keyed labels would be something
like the following:
set itemList to {}
set itemCount to count items of all page items
set pageItems to all page items
repeat with i from 1 to itemCount
tell item i of pageItems
set extractedLabel to extract label key
"SOME_KEY"
try
if extractedLabel is not
"" then
set end of itemList to object reference of item i of pageItems
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