[AS CS3] Bug? All Page Items - grouped items w labels

Can anyone confirm this behaviour for me. I would classify it as a bug, but maybe the logic for it not being a bug escapes me.
The command "all page items" is supposed to return a (flat) list of every page object, right? I would suspect that I should be able to address any object in the list. But I can only seem to address an object when it's inside of a group.
I am trying to get the text of a text frame that has a label. It may or may not be inside a group. I can certainly do a try/error block to try a script statement for objects in a group or not in a group. But I think that "all page items" should be able to handle it directly.
Here's a test script: ------
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell document 1
get label of all page items
set myUngrouped to contents of text frame "some label" --only works when objects ungrouped, this is expected
set myText to (get contents of text frame "some label" of all page items)
--both statements work ONLY when objects grouped
set myText to (get contents of every page item of all page items whose label is "some label")
end tell
end tell
Steps:
Make a new document.
Draw a text frame. Type some text into it.
Label the frame "some label".
Draw another empty graphic or text frame.
Run script
-->result is, myText statements error out. Why is this?
Now group all items on page.
Run script.
-->result is, myUngrouped can't continue. This is expected.
Comment out myUngrouped statement
Run script.
-->result is, myText statements work OK.

On 19/8/08 1:14 AM, "SuperMacGuy" <[email protected]> wrote: > set myText to (get contents of every page item of all page items whose label > is "some label") The syntax is a bit tricky. The key is that all page items returns a list, so what you want is certain items -- not page items -- from that list. So: set myText to (every item of all page items whose label is "some label") -- Shane Stanley <[email protected]>

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