Is this possible?
Using Illustrator CS:
I want to try and ungroup an active selection. But sometimes an active selection can contain many groups of groups of groups, etc.
So I wanted the script to trace the amount and way it “ungroups” until it can’t do this any more.
Once all objects are ungrouped I could insert a much larger script.
But here is even a harder part. How can the objects be regrouped in reverse manner as how they were ungrouped?
I don’t mind if this can’t be done. I just wanted to ask just in case.
The system events for group is:
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "g" using command down
end tell
And the system events for ungroup is:
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "g" using command down & shift down
end tell
Even if I can only regroup once at the end of the script, it would still be helpful.
I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but try this.
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
set thisDoc to current document
tell thisDoc
if class of selection is group item then
set layName to name of layer of selection
move every path item of selection to beginning of layer layName
-- do other actions
get properties of selection
set thePaths to selection
set groupRef to make new group item at end of layer layName
move thePaths to end of groupRef
end if
end tell
end tell
I did not look closely enough to what you were doing. Here is another script. See if this works for you.
set groupList to {}
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
set thisDoc to current document
set n to 1
tell thisDoc
set theItems to selection
repeat with x in theItems
if class of x is group item then
set properties of x to {name:"group" & n}
set groupList's end to name of x
end if
end repeat
repeat with i from 1 to (count groupList)
set selection to group item (item i of groupList)
set anItem to selection
try
set thePaths to every path item of anItem
set theTexts to every text frame of anItem
set allItems to thePaths & theTexts
end try
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "g" using command down & shift down
display dialog "items ungrouped" -- do what you want here. If you make another selection here then you will have to select all items in the original group for the next line to work. This assumes that the selection is still the same.
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "g" using command down
end repeat
end tell
end tell
