HOW TO: set anchoredObjectSettings for .palce() object?

Question

Hi, I'm currently working on interesting script for GREP placing, and I'm wondering how I can set anchoredObjectSettings for .palce() object?
for(i=0; i < found.length; i++)
    foundElem = new File (myFolder + "/" + found[i].contents);
    found[i].place(foundElem); // Placing Ancored Object
    // HERE IS WHERE I NEED SOME HELP: how to set "anchoredObjectSettings" for just placed Ancored Object
    //anchoredObjectSettings.anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.ABOVE_LINE;
    //anchoredObjectSettings.horizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.TEXT_ALIGN;
Here you can download example files - script, InDesign file and images, that should be placed into InDesign file with script
Dropbox - GREP placing.zip
PS: I believe this script will be very useful, so if anybody have any ideas/suggestions, and want to help me with further development - this would be great!

Answer 1

Hi Kai, this script is still under development, here is updated version attached (now it can also place files/images by file name only, without extension):
#target indesign;
//#include  "! Basic functions.jsx"
    GREP place files.
    This script will ask to select source folder with files to place,
    and then, with dialog box (or prompt) [this is not implemented yet, so I use static GREP value while developing]
    will ask to type GREP find expresion to search for text placeholder, that need to be replaced with file from source folder we just selected.
    TODO: Check how it works with other than image formats
        Also, this might be usefull to make anchored frame with column widh, and fit image proportionally
scriptName = decodeURI(File(app.activeScript).name.slice(0, -4)); // detect name of current script without expression
function Alert(msg) // function for native-looking alerts
    w = new Window ("dialog", scriptName, undefined, {closeButton: true});
    w.preferredSize = [300,75]; // window width and height
    w.margins = 15; // window margins
    w.orientation = "column";
    w.alignChildren = ["left", "top"];
    w.add("statictext", undefined, msg);
    close = w.add ("button", [0,0,96,20], "OK", {name: "Ok"});
    close.alignment = ["right", "bottom"];
    close.onClick = function(){exit();}
    w.show();
main();
function main()
    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
    if(app.documents.length == 0)
        Alert("No documents are open. Please open a document and try again."); exit();
    else
        //> START OF doUndoWraper
        if (parseFloat(app.version) < 6) // "app.version < 6" if it's running under an earlier version than CS4, as earlier versions don't support "Undo" in scripts
            doUndoWrapper();
        else
            app.doScript(doUndoWrapper, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, scriptName);
        //< END OF doUnoWraper
function doUndoWrapper() // this is the wraper function UNDO everything script made  by single undo
{// START OF doUndoWrapper
defaultGREPexpression = "(?i)^[a-z0-9 _-]+\\.\\w{2,4}$"; // Paragraph that starts with upper or lower case latin character, digits, spaces, hyphen or underscore, and ends with .extension
var myFilteredFiles;
var myExtensions = []; // initialize array
myExtensions.push(".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".gif"); // raster images
myExtensions.push(".psd", ".tif", ".tiff", ".pdf"); // raster images (layered)
myExtensions.push(".ai", ".eps", ".svg", ".cdr"); // vector graphics
myExtensions.push(".mp3"); // audio files
myExtensions.push(".mp4"); // video files
myExtensions.push(".swf"); // flash files
myExtensions.push(".doc", ".docx", ".rtf", ".txt"); // text documents
myExtensions.push(".xls", ".xlsx"); // table documents 
//Display the folder browser.
if(app.activeDocument.saved) // our document was saved before - we suggest to start search for source folder from were InDesign file saved
    var myFolder =  Folder(app.activeDocument.filePath).selectDlg("Select the source folder with files for placing", "");
else // file was not saved before, so we don't know where to search > suggest to start from Desktop
    var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select the source folder with files for placing", "");
if(myFolder) // if folder was selected
    //Get the path to the folder containing the files you want to place.
    var files = new Object(); // This will assoc array with FILE_NAME => FILE_EXTENSION
    if(File.fs == "Macintosh")
        myFilteredFiles = myMacOSFileFilter(myFolder);
    else
        myFilteredFiles = myWinOSFileFilter(myFolder);
    if(myFilteredFiles.length != 0) // success: we have found supported files to place
        for(i = 0; i < myFilteredFiles.length; i++)
            var filename = myFilteredFiles[i].fsName.toString().replace(/^.*[\\\/]/, ""); // now we get only file names with extenstions
            var file = [];
            file = filename.split("."); // separate file name from file extension         
            files[file[0]] = file[1]; // write FILE_NAME => FILE_EXTENSION as assoc array
    else // error: There is no supported files for placing in specified folder
        Alert("ERROR: There is no supported files for placing in specified folder.");
        exit();
else // ERROR: we have not choose source folder
    Alert("Folder with source files was not specified"); exit();
//Windows version of the file filter.
function myWinOSFileFilter(myFolder)
  var myFiles = new Array;
  var myFilteredFiles = new Array;
  for(myExtensionCounter = 0; myExtensionCounter < myExtensions.length; myExtensionCounter++)
        myExtension = myExtensions[myExtensionCounter];
        myFiles = myFolder.getFiles("*"+ myExtension);
  if(myFiles.length != 0)
            for(var myFileCounter = 0; myFileCounter < myFiles.length; myFileCounter++)
  myFilteredFiles.push(myFiles[myFileCounter]);
  return myFilteredFiles;
function myMacOSFileFilter(myFolder)
  var myFilteredFiles = myFolder.getFiles(myFileFilter);
  return myFilteredFiles;
//Mac OS version of file filter
//Have to provide a separate version because not all Mac OS users use file extensions and/or file extensions are sometimes hidden by the Finder.
function myFileFilter(myFile)
    var myFileType = myFile.type;
    switch (myFileType)
        case "JPEG":
        case "EPSF":
        case "PICT":
        case "TIFF":
        case "8BPS":
        case "GIFf":
        case "PDF ":
            return true;
            break;
        default:
        for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter<myExtensions.length; myCounter++)
            var myExtension = myExtensions[myCounter];
            if(myFile.name.indexOf(myExtension)>-1)
                return true;
                break;
  return false;
//> START OF GREP expression dialog
w = new Window ("dialog", scriptName+": specify expression", undefined, {closeButton: true});
w.preferredSize = [300,75]; // window width and height
w.margins = 15; // window margins
w.orientation = "column";
w.alignChildren = ["left", "top"];
panel = w.add("panel", undefined, "Find what: (GREP expression)");
if(app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat != "")
    grepExpression = app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat;
    clearFindWhat = false;
else
    grepExpression = defaultGREPexpression; // use default GREP expression
    //fgrepExpression = "\\[.+\\]"; // \\< means "begining of the world", and \\> means end of the world;
    clearFindWhat = true;
var grepExpression = panel.add ("edittext", [0,0,270,20], grepExpression);
grepExpression.active = true;
panel.add("statictext", undefined, "GREP expression no need for for double \\\\ escaping");
ok = w.add ("button", [0,0,96,20], "Continue", {name: "Ok"});
ok.alignment = ["right", "bottom"];
ok.onClick = function()
    findWhat = grepExpression.text; 
    w.hide();
w.show();
//< END OF GREP expression dialog
if(typeof findWhat !== "undefined") // check we have not left GREP expression field empy
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = findWhat; // our GREP that search for image placeholder text;
    found = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
    for(i=0; i < found.length; i++)
        if(found[i].contents.indexOf(".") > -1) // we wroking with file name with extension
            foundElem = new File (myFolder + "/" + found[i].contents);
        else // we work with file name only, so we need to add file extension manually
            found[i].contents = found[i].contents.replace(/[^a-z0-9 _-]/gi, ""); // remove all unwanted characters from file name: only letters, numbers, spcaces, minus and underscores allowed     
            foundElem = new File (myFolder + "/" + found[i].contents + "." +  files[found[i].contents]);     
      try
            placedObj = found[i].place(foundElem)[0].parent; // THANKS TO: Jump_Over for help @ https://forums.adobe.com/message/6912489#6912489
            placedObj.anchoredObjectSettings.anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.ABOVE_LINE;
            placedObj.anchoredObjectSettings.horizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.TEXT_ALIGN;
            placedObj.frameFittingOptions.autoFit = true;
            placedObj.frameFittingOptions.fittingOnEmptyFrame = EmptyFrameFittingOptions.FILL_PROPORTIONALLY;
            placedObj.frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment = AnchorPoint.CENTER_ANCHOR;         
        catch(e)
            Alert(e);         
    app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "";
    app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
    if(clearFindWhat) // clearing only if typed GREP expression manually
        app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; // clear Find/Change preferences once we finished
else
    Alert("Find what GREP expression was not specified"); exit();
}// END OF doUndoWrapper
Top part with Windows/Mac filtering was copy-pasted from default InDeign script "ImageCatalog.jsx" as example and modified - I'm not sure if all this stuff is needed, I haven't test if it works the same without those filtering on both OS - if that's not needed - then thanks for tip!
PS: in your findWhat \l{3,4} will not catch .ai files
and what means .source at the end? is that doing necessary escaping, so with it it's posible to write \l instead of \\l