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CHAPTER 6: Scripting with VBScript Working with enumeration values 61

Creating a polygon

Consider the following sample:

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

Set frontDocument = appRef.ActiveDocument

' Create a new polygon with

' top = 144, left side = 288, width = 72, height = 144

Set newPolygon = frontDocument.PathItems.Polygon(144,288,72,7)

The sample creates a polygon with these properties:

X The center point of the object is inset 2 inches (144 points) on the horizontal axis and 4 inches

(288 points) on the vertical axis.

X The length of the radius from the center point to each corner is 1 inch (72 points).

X The polygon has 7 sides.

Working with enumeration values

Properties that use enumeration values in VBScript use a numeral rather than a text value. For example,

the

Orientation property of the TextFrame object specifies whether text content in the text frame is

horizontal or vertical. The property uses the

aiTextOrientation enumeration, which has two possible

values,

aiHorizontal and aiVertical.

To find the numeral values of enumerations, use either of the following:

X The object browser in your scripting editor environment. See “Viewing the VBScript object model” on

page 10.

X The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Scripting Reference: VBScript, which lists the numeral values directly after the

constant value in the “Enumerations” chapter at the end of the book. The following example is from

that table:

The following sample specifies vertical text orientation:

Set appRef = CreateObject ("Illustrator.Application")

Set docRef = appRef.Documents.Add

Set textRef = docRef.TextFrames.Add

textRef.Contents = "This is some text content."

textRef.Left = 50

textRef.Top = 700

textRef.Orientation = 1

Generally, it is considered good scripting practice to place the text value in a comment following the

numeral value, as in the following sample statement:

textRef.Orientation = 1 ' aiVertical

Enumeration type Values What it means

AiTextOrientation aiHorizontal = 0

aiVertical = 1

The orientation of text in a text frame

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