Now I see that the results and potential functionality of the two approaches are different:
Assuming my intent was to isolate objects containing non-empty keys for a specific keyname, the non-looped alternative here does not seem to suffice, since I end up with a list of keys, not a list of objects containing those keys.
But it seems to work if I create a second list of all page items and did the following (eliminating tries and validity checks):
set allPageItems to all page items
set keyRefs to {}
tell all page items
set keyList to extract label key "SOME_KEY"
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to (count items of keyList)
if item i of keyList is not "" then
copy item i of allPageItems to end of keyRefs
end if
end repeat
return keyRefs
But is this significantly more efficient for a lengthy document than my original repeat loop (blow)?
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
end if
end try
end tell
end repeat
return itemList
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On 10/16/06 at 11:10 AM -0700, Rick Gordon wrote in a message entitled
"Re: SCRIPTING INDESIGN: Question About Labels":
>Much better! Thanks again.
>
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>
>On 10/16/06 at 9:29 PM +1000, Shane Stanley wrote in a message entitled
>"Re: SCRIPTING INDESIGN: Question About Labels":
>
>>On 16/10/06 9:15 PM, "Rick Gordon" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>No, but you can get all items' labels with one event:
>>
>>tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
> > tell all page items of document 1
> > extract label key "Whatever"
>> end tell
> >end tell
>>
>>Then you could loop through the result.
>>
>>--
> >Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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