Re: QuarkXPress: finding anchored boxes
Re: QuarkXPress: finding anchored boxes
- Subject: Re: QuarkXPress: finding anchored boxes
- From: Michael Turner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:17:43 -0500
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From: Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: QuarkXPress: finding anchored boxes
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> (...) Is there a test for selections (in contents mode) to
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> "have" or "not have" anchored boxes?
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Every anchored box can be detected because of it's three invisible
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characters. The first one is always ASCII 4, the second one may be
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ASCII 0 or ASCII 1, the third can be every number from 1 to 255.
I didn't know that. Valuable info.
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The result should be something like: {115, 4, 0, 1, 109}
paragraph before & after:
{13, 4, 0, 2, 13}
another test: (letter "a"s)
{97, 4, 0, 3, 97}
test case, box is first item in textbox:
{4, 0, 2, 88}
This works great!
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Now, the idea is to count the occurrences of ASCII character 4 in the
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selection, using the text item delimiters:
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If the variable numBox is greater than 1 then we could use it in the
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dialog, BUT the number wouldn't be reliable: {4, 0, 4} is one box but
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would be counted as two boxes. The same applies if your selection contains
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only one box, and it's code is {4, 0, 4}.
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Regards,
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Hans
This works better! And a nice demo of TID, too. Can the TID be set to
multiple characters?
Thanks a bunch.
/Michael