Delete Empty Text Blocks

[Zach Manring]

Ok I see what you mean, I could make it find it, then select it somehow and
at the end delete selection? Kinda like the clear pasteboard script. Alright
so how can I get the element info of the selected text flow that comes back
at 0. Using the text flow owner shape?


On 4/11/08 5:05 PM, "Steve Mills" <smills at multi-ad.com> wrote:

> On Apr 11, 2008, at 15:49:43, Zach Manring wrote:
> 
>> tell application "MultiAd Creator Pro"
>>    set textcount to number of text flow of document 1
>>    repeat with i from 1 to textcount
>>        select text flow i of document 1
>>        set ztextcount to count every character of text flow i of
>> document 1
>>        if ztextcount < 1 then
>>            select text flow i of document 1
>> 
>> -- after its selected then I don't how to select it as an element,
>> if I use
>> it as "I" then it deletes the wrong element.
>> 
>> delete
>>        end if
>>    end repeat
>> end tell
> 
> 
> A text flow is the object that holds and flows the text. Selecting a
> text flow simply selects its text. The text is flowed through text
> blocks (or text paths, both of which are subclasses of text
> container). Text blocks/paths are owned by shapes. If you know the
> flow only flows through 1 block/shape, then you can use text flow's
> owner shape property to easily get the shape. If not, then you'll have
> to walk the list of text containers and get each text container's
> owner shape.
> 
> You're going to run into  problem though when you delete objects that
> you're iterating through. If you delete object 2, then object 3
> becomes object 2, and object 4 becomes object 3, so in the next
> iteration, i is incremented from 2 to 3, you'll skip what was object 3
> and is now object 2. If objects will be deleted in a loop, you either
> need to loop backwards (which should prevent most indices from
> changing) or build a list of objects to delete, then delete them in a
> separate loop outside of the current loop.
> 
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