I was running the attached script on a roughly 200-file book, which contains about 2500 pages. The book files were all open when I ran the script. I started...
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edunn@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:34 pm
You seem to be forgetting to set the bookcomponent to the next file in the book. Also, if the component is not already open nothing would be done to it. The...
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edunn@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:36 pm
Maybe I should have kept quiet. I'm not sure my response is anywhere near target (Indeed I think I just jumped up and stuck my foot in my mouth). Eric L. Dunn...
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Simon Bate
sbate@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:55 pm
I might be missing something, but I don't seem to see a close statement in your code. Unless you're achieving it through a side effect, you probably should...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:36 pm
Hi Anita, Did the script ever finish, or did you cancel it? You can cancel a running script by pressing the Escape key. This would give you a chance to look at...
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hedley_finger@...
Dec 4, 2000 1:38 am
Fellow keyboard tappers: I just downloaded the FDK 5.5.6. That's one hell of a large Programmer's Reference -- 960 pages. Not being a C programmer, I would...
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Rick Quatro
frameexpert@...
Dec 4, 2000 2:29 am
Hedley, Forget about the FDK Programmer's Reference; FrameScript already has a Scriptwriter's Reference. Download and print some of the FDK Programmer's Guide...
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adam.newton@...
Dec 4, 2000 8:35 pm
Rick, Potentially dumb question, but is the FDK Programmer's Guide you mention part of the FDK download from Adobe, or is it available elsewhere. I didn't get...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 4, 2000 9:46 pm
Adam, Yes, the documentation is part of the FDK download. They used to have the docs as a separate download, but not with the lastest FDK. Rick Quatro Carmen...
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adam.newton@...
Dec 5, 2000 2:13 pm
Thanks for the confirmation, Rick. Will download and have a look. ... have the ... the ... how ... FDK ... like ... the ... applications ... other ... syntax...
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hedley_finger@...
Dec 5, 2000 9:28 pm
I have fooled around with various programming languages over the years as a hobbyist: BASIC, Pascal, Java, MSDOS shell, Korn shell, Bourne shell, C shell, ML,...
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Simon Bate
sbate@...
Dec 5, 2000 10:34 pm
Hedley, Like you, I've scripted in just about everything that is scriptable (plus a bunch of other compiled languages). FrameScript truly is "original" in...
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jknowles@...
Dec 6, 2000 4:23 pm
I have put together a brief script to move a table column to the first column of the table. The following version almost works, but is pretty crude, since it...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 7, 2000 3:03 pm
Hi John, I don't normally recommend Fcodes in scripts because they require an active document, but this is a case where they are very useful. Here is a revised...
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ian.saunders@...
Dec 7, 2000 3:57 pm
Hi, Is there available such a thing as a list of properties and commands that have changed from FrameScript v1.27 to v2.0? I've noticed that many of the book...
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ian.saunders@...
Dec 7, 2000 4:01 pm
Apologies for the misleading (read "blindly copied") subject of my last mailing... Hi, Is there available such a thing as a list of properties and commands...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 7, 2000 4:30 pm
Ian, Most of the property changes have to do with changes in FrameMaker 6 from FrameMaker 5.5.6. FrameScript 2 should still allow you to access the 5.5.6 ...
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Ryan Gibson
ryan@...
Dec 9, 2000 1:56 am
Rick / All: I'm still an FS newbie, but am trying to write what I thought would be two similar and relatively easy scripts, but they don't work. I think I am ...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 9, 2000 2:44 am
Hi Ryan, Here's an answer to the first question. Simply change this line Set vCurrentXref.XRefFmt.Name = vNewXRefFmt.Name to Set vCurrentXref.XRefFmt =...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 9, 2000 3:09 am
Hi Ryan, I did not try to modify your script; it was easier to write it from scratch. This will work on the active document. You'll have to modify it to work...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 9, 2000 3:29 am
Here is a follow up to my last post regarding Subject: [framescript-users] changing xreffmts and marker text FrameScript 2 has several new parameters in the...
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ryan@...
Dec 11, 2000 8:22 pm
Thanks, Rick! The scripts work great, and you've also shown me some new tricks (hopefully I'll be able to use them myself to write more scripts in the...
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jlance@...
Dec 13, 2000 11:57 pm
Hello, Anyone else run into this - it appears that the "Edit" and "Checkbox" elements are tied to one another. So, if you delete the "Edit1" componet it wipes...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 14, 2000 3:35 am
Hi John, This problem is known by Frank Elmore, the project leader for FrameScript. He tells me that there should be an update on Finite Matters' web site in a...
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nancy@...
Dec 19, 2000 11:10 pm
I can't get the title of any scrollbox-type dialogboxes to show up in the box. The titles show up fine in other types of dialogboxes (string, MEDit), just not...
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Rick Quatro
rquatro@...
Dec 20, 2000 12:07 am
Hi Nancy, This is actually caused by a bug in the FrameMaker 5.5.6 FDK scrollbox dialog, which FrameScript 1.x uses. This is fixed in FrameScript 2 because it...
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Nancy Urban
nancy@...
Dec 20, 2000 9:32 pm
Rick- Thanks for your help. I've now upgraded to FrameScript 2. Nancy Urban...
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Brenda Barkey
bbarkey@...
Dec 21, 2000 12:24 am
Hi FrameScript users -- I need to create a script that will open all mif files in a directory and save them back as frame files. I started out with a script ...
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michael.bell@...
Dec 21, 2000 6:02 am
I will be out of the office from 12/18/2000 until 01/02/2001. I will be on vacation and not checking my e-mail or v-mail. Deputies for Phoenix are: US: Susan...
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Michael Mueller-Hille...
info@...
Dec 21, 2000 9:22 am
Brenda, what version of FrameScript are you using. I tried the original and it worked and I can see no problem with your modifications. If you are using...
