Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Unlinking Text Frames; Removing a Frame from a Story

CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Working with Text Frames 87
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);
var myTextFrameA = myPage.textFrames.item(1);
var myTextFrameB = myPage.textFrames.item(0);
//Add a page.
var myNewPage = myDocument.pages.add();
//Create another text frame on the new page.
var myTextFrameC = myNewPage.textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[72, 72, 144, 144]})
//Link TextFrameA to TextFrameB using the nextTextFrame property.
myTextFrameA.nextTextFrame = myTextFrameB;
//Link TextFrameC to TextFrameB using the previousTextFrame property.
myTextFrameC.previousTextFrame = myTextFrameB;
//Fill the text frames with placeholder text.
myTextFrameA.contents = TextFrameContents.placeholderText;
Unlinking text frames
The following example script shows how to unlink text frames (for the complete script, see
UnlinkTextFrames):
//Unlink the two text frames.
myTextFrameA.nextTextFrame = NothingEnum.nothing;
Removing a frame from a story
In InDesign, deleting a frame from a story does not delete the text in the frame, unless the frame is the only
frame in the story. The following script fragment shows how to delete a frame and the text it contains from
a story without disturbing the other frames in the story (for the complete script, see BreakFrame):
var myObjectList = new Array;
//Script does nothing if no documents are open or if no objects are selected.
if(app.documents.length != 0){
if(app.selection.length != 0){
//Process the objects in the selection to create a list of
//qualifying objects (text frames).
for(myCounter = 0; myCounter < app.selection.length; myCounter ++){
switch(app.selection[myCounter].constructor.name){
case "TextFrame":
myObjectList.push(app.selection[myCounter]);
break;
default:
if(app.selection.length == 1){
//If text is selected, then get the parent text frame.
switch(app.selection[myCounter].constructor.name){
case "Text":
case "InsertionPoint":
case "Character":
case "Word":
case "Line":
case "TextStyleRange":
case "Paragraph":
case "TextColumn":