[CS3 JS] Question about collecting overridden style settings

Question

Hi!
I can use the styleOverridden to check every item in a textStyleRange for overrides. But is there a smart way to collect the attributes actually overridden? (The attributes showing up neatly in the tooltip when you hold the mouse cursor over an overridden style name.)
My script needs to add a clean character style for every overridden style, recreating the behaviour of the add new character style dialogue, creating the new style based on the overrides.
Kind regards,
Andreas

Answer 1

Ah, it looks like it's beginning to work now :-)
I thought I had tried some of these things before, but obviously not. Thanks Peter, for your assistance. Now even assigning the whole properties collection of the TextStyleRange objects to the new character style object works! There's a lot of properties created, which I'd really would have preferred not to show up (in the summary of the character style dialogue box), since they are (as far as I can see) the default values, but I like the easy code this approach results in:
var selText = app.selection;
var srs = selText[0].textStyleRanges;
for (var iTSR=srs.length-1; iTSR>=0; iTSR--){
]if (srs[iTSR].styleOverridden){
]]// This is an overridden style we need to create a style for
]]var ch = srs[iTSR];
]]newStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.add(ch.properties);
]]if (app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item('newstyle'+iTSR.toString())!=null) app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item('newstyle'+iTSR.toString()).remove();
]]newStyle.name = 'newstyle'+iTSR.toString();
I'm not yet quite clear on how to treat overridden paragraph styles. Perhaps I need to check whether the properties of the new character style are already the same as the ones of an possibly applied paragraph style, and if so, not assign (or remove) that property from the new character style.
Also... possible need to name all uniquley auto-generated styles and find a way to apply the same style again (not to risk creating a large number of character styles just setting "bold").
Andreas