Another VB Script to PowerBasic Problem

[Robert Wallace]

I have spent over a week trying to solve two lines of code!

VBScript snippet:

Set myFoundItems = myInDesign.Documents.Item(1).FindText
MsgBox ("Found " & CStr(myFoundItems.Count) & " instances of the search string.")

COM Browser:

MEMBER CALL FindText <1181639764> (OPTIONAL IN prm_ReverseOrder AS VARIANT<0>) AS InDesignObjects ' <dispinterface>

My Code - I have tried two ways:

LOCAL list AS VARIANT
DIM listarray(1 TO 100) AS VARIANT
.....
....
OBJECT CALL myDocument.FindText TO list

or

OBJECT CALL myDocument.FindText TO listarray()

How do i define "myFoundItems" so that I can get "myFoundItems.Count" in PowerBasic?

(One definition on the Net (not Adobe) says that "FindText" returns an "Array of Text")

[Stuart McLachlan]

Use a PowerArray object ? COPYFROMVARIANT ?

[Robert Wallace]

Using VARIANTVT function I found out that "list" contained IDispatch (9).

I re-wrote the code as follows:

LOCAL vtemp AS VARIANT
LOCAL mytexts AS DISPATCH
LOCAL mytext AS DISPATCH
.....
.....
OBJECT CALL myDocument.FindText TO mytexts
OBJECT GET mytexts.count TO vtemp
j = VARIANT#(vtemp)
FOR k = 1 TO j
   OBJECT GET mytexts.item(k) TO mytext
   OBJECT GET mytext.contents TO vtemp
   MSGBOX "Found word" & STR$(k) & ": " & VARIANT$(vtemp)
NEXT k

I now have to try and find which page each word is on!!

[Michael Mattias]

Just in general..

Don't always assume the best way to get the job done is to mindlessly port the VB script to PB. Maybe there is a better way to accomplish .. um, whatever it is this code is trying to accomplish.

MCM

[Michael Mattias]

E.G.

MsgBox ("Found " & CStr(myFoundItems.Count) & " instances of the search string.")

PB's 'TALLY' function will give you that.

[Stuart McLachlan]

E.G.

PB's 'TALLY' function will give you that.

In an Adobe InDesign DTP document? I doubt that.

[Stuart McLachlan]

(One definition on the Net (not Adobe) says that "FindText" returns an "Array of Text")

Note that in InDesign , "Text" is not a string of characters, It's a complex object with a coupe of hundred properties, some of which are themselves arrays of other objects.

http://jongware.mit.edu/idcs6js/pc_Text.html

[Michael Mattias]

Note that in InDesign......

Doesn't change the admonition... sometimes the best way to "port" code to another language or operating system is to look at the problem and solve it in the new environment.