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I use "tell current box" for a lot of scripts where I want only to deal with that particular box. How would I target every text box within a text chain? for example I have boxes A, B, C and D linked together. Let's say I select box C. I want to target every box within that text box chain.

 tell current text box

tell story 1

*do stuff*

end tell

end tell

- that will target the entire text flow.

Hi Em, The trick is, I want to modify each of the boxes in the chain, as well as the text. for instance, I'd like to make the height of each box conform to the longest one in the chain. See this image below: I think maybe I need to do it through a loop, but not even sure...

 Hi witcher,

 If you look at the text box propeprties, you will see "Previous Text Box" and "Next Text box". If your text box are indeed linked, these properties will have a reference to another text box. You can use this to navigatethrough all the text boxes of a chain

 

Something like:

set TB to object reference of current box

repeat
        if previous text box of TB is not null then
            set TB to previous text box
        else
            exit repeat
       end if
end repeat

set aTextBox to TB
repeat while aTextBox is not null
    set aTextBox to my ProcessBox(aTextBox)
end repeat

on ProcessBox(ThisBox)
   tell ThisBox
        -- do stuff
        return next text box
   end tell
end ProcessBox

 Warning: This is untested code !!!

 

HTH

Hey! You're not supposed to be here!

 I am EVERYWHERE!!! ;-)

be right back... then again, maybe we should tell people to go to "the other place" for my results...

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