OK, rather than try and map the new styles to the old ones automatically (how would ID know which ones to use?), I'm playing with the idea of creating a dialog box for each paragraph style in the document in turn, so I can type in the new name. (Yes, I know I've probably already taken more time than it would take to click on each style manually, but I've never written a script with a dialog in it before so I thought I'd take the opportunity to learn.)
I've adapted one of the examples in the Applescript tutorial. So far I have:
tell application “Adobe InDesign CS5”
tell active document
set allParaStyles to every paragraph style
repeat with i from 1 to count of allParaStyles
set myParaStyle to item i of allParaStyles
set myOldStyleName to name of myParaStyle
set myDialog to make dialog
tell myDialog
set name to “Rename paragraph style”
set myDialogColumn to make dialog column
tell myDialogColumn
–Create a text entry field.
set myNewStyleName to make text editbox with properties {edit contents:”myOldStyleName”, min width:180}
end tell
end tell
set myResult to show myDialog
if myResult is true then
–Get the settings from the dialog box.
set name of myParaStyle to edit value of myNewStyleName
–Remove the dialog box from memory.
destroy myDialog
else
destroy myDialog
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
But this gives me an error:
error “Adobe InDesign CS5 got an error: Can’t make class dialog.” number -2710 from dialog to class
What am I missing?
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