Looking for any script writers

[myront]

I have a free script that I found and would like to modify the code. I messed around a bit but can't seem to get what I'm after. I'm more familiar with vbs.
Any "scripters" here.

 

[Adam Vreeke]

If it were me, I would go to https://stackoverflow.com/

 

[WildWestDesigns]

If it were me, I would go to https://stackoverflow.com/

I would either focus on vanilla JS or ECMA 3 (I think ExtendScript stops at JS ECMA 3 or is based off of that with their own twist (usually the .jsx (although the front end guys may think it's a React script) extension)

 

[netsol]

my unix (sco 5 & redhat 7 +8) programmer tried an experiment the other day and asked copilot to
write him a couple scripts. SURPRISINGLY, he found that he only had to "touch up" the finished
product a bit to make it usable

 

[WildWestDesigns]

my unix (sco 5 & redhat 7 +8) programmer tried an experiment the other day and asked copilot to
write him a couple scripts. SURPRISINGLY, he found that he only had to "touch up" the finished
product a bit to make it usable

That's because of MS and their being behind TS as well as Co-Pilot I would imagine. But that's me speculating.

 

[myront]

Ok, been working with Copilot for a few hours. Works great but cannot, for the life of me, get the height of my created rectangle to size height properly. Seems no matter what mod I or Copilot does to the calculation, either it ends with doing the opposite or stays the same.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Without seeing src it's hard to say one way or the other. Someone that uses scripting and the program may be able to help out at that point.

 

[Saturn]

What generally, or specifically, are you trying to do? Is this in Illustrator?

 

[myront]

What generally, or specifically, are you trying to do? Is this in Illustrator?

Yes, illustrator.
Think I got it worked out. Bounding box of text is different than if the text is outlined. So script to outline text first then do the rest.

WeedLines.jsx

// Check if there are any selected objects
if (app.selection.length > 0) {
// Group the selection first
app.executeMenuCommand("group");
app.executeMenuCommand("outline");

var selectedItems = app.selection;
var minX = Infinity, minY = Infinity, maxX = -Infinity, maxY = -Infinity;

// Calculate the combined bounding box of the grouped shapes as a whole
for (var i = 0; i < selectedItems.length; i++) {
var item = selectedItems;
var bounds = item.visibleBounds;
minX = Math.min(minX, bounds[0]);
minY = Math.min(minY, bounds[1]);
maxX = Math.max(maxX, bounds[2]);
maxY = Math.max(maxY, bounds[3]);
}

// Increase the bounding box width by 0.1 inch and height by 0.1 inch (converted to points, where 1 inch = 72 points)
var widthIncrement = 0.1 * 72;
var heightIncrement = .1 - 72 / 2; // Correct height increment

minX -= widthIncrement / 2;
maxX += widthIncrement / 2;
minY -= heightIncrement /2; // Decrease minY to extend downward
maxY += heightIncrement /2; // Increase maxY to extend upward

// Create a new layer for the rectangle and lines
var layer = app.activeDocument.layers.add();
layer.name = "Rectangle and Lines";

// Create the rectangle with increased dimensions
var rectangle = layer.pathItems.rectangle(maxY, minX, maxX - minX, maxY - minY);
rectangle.filled = false; // No fill
rectangle.stroked = true;
rectangle.strokeColor = app.activeDocument.swatches.getByName("Black").color;

// Create the vertical line segment
var verticalLine = layer.pathItems.add();
verticalLine.setEntirePath([[minX + (maxX - minX) / 2, maxY], [minX + (maxX - minX) / 2, minY]]);
verticalLine.stroked = true;
verticalLine.strokeColor = app.activeDocument.swatches.getByName("Black").color;

// Create the horizontal line segment
var horizontalLine = layer.pathItems.add();
horizontalLine.setEntirePath([[minX, minY + (maxY - minY) / 2], [maxX, minY + (maxY - minY) / 2]]);
horizontalLine.stroked = true;
horizontalLine.strokeColor = app.activeDocument.swatches.getByName("Black").color;

// Ungroup the selection at the end
app.executeMenuCommand("ungroup");

// Deselect everything
app.selection = null;

}