Selecting Drawing Objects

[Jtoo]

I'm trying to write a script that will change the font of an already existing text box inside a group. My question is how do I assign a handle to an already existing object without actually clicking on it. I need the script to do this on its own.

[Ben624]

You could give the text box a name (it's the first field under the 'Data' tab in the object info palette) and then get the handle using tbH := getObject('name') where tbH is your handle and name is the name you have assigned.

[Pat Stanford]

First, every object has a handle. What you need to do if determine the correct handle, not assign a handle.

If the group the only thing selected on the drawing? If the text box the only one inside the group? If so, then you can get a handle to the group [FSActLayer], use that to get a handle to the first object inside the group [FinGroup] and then step through the objects in the group until you find the text.

Something like (untested)

H1:=FSActLayer;

H2:=FinGroup(H1);

While H2 <> Nil do

Begin

if GetType(H2)=TEXT then

Begin

{Edit your text here}

End;

H2:=NextObj(H2); {Point to the next object in the group}

end;

Pat