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• • March 23, 2016 at 3:26 pm #83308
    Tamás Nagy

    Participant

    Hi guys,

    I’m brand new here, and maybe I’ll gain the “noob of the year” prize because of this post, but now I’ll try to upload a JavaScript code I made this afternoon :)

    This code is intended to solve a relatively common problem (at least for me): the numbers in a table column are supposed to be aligned to the right but alltogether they must leave equal free spaces on the left and right sides of the table column.

    This script decides which table cells are to be modified and calculates the neccessary right insets for all the selected table cells to create correct number alignments within the selection.

    The Javascript code is as follows:

    ———————————————————————————————–

    if (app.activeDocument.selection.length==0) exit();
    if (!app.activeDocument.selection[0].hasOwnProperty(“cells”)) exit();
    var myCtemp=app.activeDocument.selection[0].cells;
    if (myCtemp.length==0) exit();

    app.doScript(Igazit,ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,undefined,UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT,”Táblázat oszlop”);

    function Igazit(){
    var myWo=[], myWt=[], myCells=[], myOi, myTextw;
    for (var i=0; i<1000; i++) myWt[i]=0;

    for (var i=0; i<myCtemp.length; i++) {
    if (myCtemp[i].rowType!=RowTypes.BODY_ROW) continue;
    myCells.push(myCtemp[i]);
    myOi=myCtemp[i].parentColumn.index;
    myWo[myOi]=myCtemp[i].width;
    myTextw=myCtemp[i].texts[0];
    myTextw=myTextw.endHorizontalOffset-myTextw.horizontalOffset;
    myWt[myOi]=Math.max(myTextw,myWt[myOi]);
    };

    for (var i=0; i<myCells.length; i++){
    myOi=myCells[i].parentColumn.index;
    myTextw=(myWo[myOi]-myWt[myOi])/2;
    myCells[i].leftInset=0;
    myCells[i].texts[0].justification=Justification.RIGHT_ALIGN;
    myCells[i].rightInset=myTextw;
    };
    };

    ———————————————————————————————–

    Well, it’s my first, so please do not kill me for it :)

  • March 23, 2016 at 3:40 pm #83311
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    You may need to put your code inside pre or code tags here on the forum.

  • March 23, 2016 at 3:42 pm #83312
    Tamás Nagy

    Participant

    Sorry?

    I mean I see it’s mean but I don’t know how to be professional :)

  • March 23, 2016 at 4:02 pm #83316
    Tamás Nagy

    Participant

    Did you mean some HTML-like <mycode> </mycode> pairs? Pls show me an example :)

  • March 23, 2016 at 4:08 pm #83319
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I’m sorry, I was just trying to be helpful. Yes, I mean adding html tags.

    For example
         if you use the pre tags
         you can do indents and it comes out looking
    more like code. :-)
    

  • April 7, 2016 at 12:07 pm #83796
    Tamás Nagy

    Participant

    Ok, let’s try it again :)

    With the pre tag:

    if (app.activeDocument.selection.length==0) exit();
    if (!app.activeDocument.selection[0].hasOwnProperty("cells")) exit();
    var myCtemp=app.activeDocument.selection[0].cells;
    if (myCtemp.length==0) exit();
    
    app.doScript(AlignNums,ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,undefined,UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT,"Table Numbers");
    
    function AlignNums(){
    var myWo=[], myWt=[], myCells=[], myOi, myTextw;
    for (var i=0; i<1000; i++) myWt[i]=0;
    
    for (var i=0; i<myCtemp.length; i++) {
        if (myCtemp[i].rowType!=RowTypes.BODY_ROW) continue;
        myCells.push(myCtemp[i]);
        myOi=myCtemp[i].parentColumn.index;
        myWo[myOi]=myCtemp[i].width;
        myTextw=myCtemp[i].texts[0];
        myTextw=myTextw.endHorizontalOffset-myTextw.horizontalOffset;
        myWt[myOi]=Math.max(myTextw,myWt[myOi]);
        };
    
    for (var i=0; i<myCells.length; i++){
        myOi=myCells[i].parentColumn.index;
        myTextw=(myWo[myOi]-myWt[myOi])/2;
        myCells[i].leftInset=0;
        myCells[i].texts[0].justification=Justification.RIGHT_ALIGN;
        myCells[i].rightInset=myTextw;
        };
    };
    

    By the way: how could I delete/modify my earlier posts?

  • April 26, 2016 at 8:57 pm #84346
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Your code works just fine if one selects the column with numbers. I would expand the code so you only need to place cursor in the cell and it would treat this column as the one to work on. Better yet, if you continuously dealing with tables that have first column with numbers, you could modify script to automatically go to the first column every time. Do you need any help with your code?
    Michael

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