Get text selection and properties

Question

Hi All,
I need to get the text selection in my active document so that I can access the properties of selected text like paragraphs, font styles, colors etc.
I wrote the following script to get text selection,
var objDoc = app.activeDocument;
var objText = app.selection[0];
This gives me objText as a Text object. When I try to access paragraphs in this text, I get the full contents of the para, not just the ones in the selection. I do not want this. I want to access properties in just the text selection.
How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Just to illustrate my last point:
Here an example with a paragraph formatted with only one GREP Style, letter "b" should change color to Cyan. If you select letter b only, the textStyleRange includes letter "b" (no surprise here) but also all the characters to the end!
Code:
var mySelection = app.selection[0];
var myTextStyleRanges = mySelection.texts[0].textStyleRanges.everyItem().getElements();
for(var n=0;n<myTextStyleRanges.length;n++){
    $.writeln(myTextStyleRanges[n].texts[0].contents);
    $.writeln(myTextStyleRanges[n].texts[0].fillColor.name);
Result in the console:
bcccddddd
C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0
Which is misleading…
Further we could try to get the fill Color for all characters of the textStyleRange and ask them about their fillColor.name:
var mySelection = app.selection[0];
var myTextStyleRanges = mySelection.texts[0].textStyleRanges.everyItem().getElements();
for(var n=0;n<myTextStyleRanges.length;n++){
    $.writeln("Contents of Range:"+"\r"+myTextStyleRanges[n].texts[0].contents);
    $.writeln("fillColor.name of Range:"+"\r"+myTextStyleRanges[n].texts[0].fillColor.name);
    var allCharsInRange = myTextStyleRanges[n].texts[0].characters.everyItem().getElements();
    for(var c=0;c<allCharsInRange.length;c++){
        $.writeln("Index number of loop: "+c+"\t"+allCharsInRange[c].contents+"\t"+allCharsInRange[c].fillColor.name);
The result for my example would be:
First column of result: index number of for loop (0-8), there are 9 characters in the one and only range
Second column: contents of the single character
Third column: fillColor.name of the character
Contents of Range:
bcccddddd
fillColor.name of Range:
C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0
Index number of loop: 0    b    C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0
Index number of loop: 1    c    Black
Index number of loop: 2    c    Black
Index number of loop: 3    c    Black
Index number of loop: 4    d    Black
Index number of loop: 5    d    Black
Index number of loop: 6    d    Black
Index number of loop: 7    d    Black
Index number of loop: 8    d    Black
Uwe