Gradient Feather Settings CS3 JS

Question

Hello:
Hi -- Odd thing with the following snippet:
for (var i = (app.activeDocument.rectangles.length - 1); i >= 0; i--) {
var myrec = app.activeDocument.rectangles[i];
          if (myrec.label == "mygraphic") {
myrec.transparencySettings.gradientFeatherSettings.angle = -90;
The object appears to lose all gradients. However when I check the settings in InDesign, the change to -90 degrees has happened and all the other gradient settings have been preserved. But I have to redo the settings for the change to actually happen on the page.
If i run this with an angle of 45, it works fine.
Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
Is this a problem with negative numbers? If so, Is there any workarounds?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance

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