[AS][CS2] Working with a number of specified frames

Question

b Hi all,
I'm using script labels to target specific text frames to work with (eg. Cap01, Cap03, Cap05).
I'd like to specify the set of text frames I want to work with in one line, like:
b set myCaps to text frame "Cap01" & text frame "Cap03" & text frame "Cap05"
But I can't work out the correct syntax.
So, I currently move each text frame to a new layer and then specify the set as every text frame of the new layer.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Answer 1

You can get all the odd/even ones with a loop like this, but it's certainly not as simple as you were hoping for. Either one of these could be turned into a function pretty easily though--the second one you could pass lists of names to and get back the list of all matching labeled items pretty easily. At least then you wouldn't have to be tinkering with the physical layer of the item. That seems like it might bite you eventually...
Matching only odd frames:
set myList to {}
repeat with i from 1 to 9
if i mod 2 = 1 then
  set myList to myList & (every text frame whose label = ("Cap0" & i) as string)
end if
end repeat
Alternatively, you could use selection lists:
set selectionList to {"Cap01", "Cap02", "Cap05"}
set myList to {}
repeat with i from 1 to 9
set thisString to "Cap0" & i
if selectionList contains thisString then
  set myList to myList & (every text frame whose label = thisString)
end if
end repeat