Interactive Button Labels

Hi All,
Has anyone tried to Get / Set the Labels of Interative Buttons in InDesign CS4 through Plug-in.
I am able to acheive the same through JavaScript but would like to handle through Plugin, as from plugin I have to call the JavaScript.
If anyone knows how to do this please do let me know.
Thank you all in advance.
Regards
Farzana.

Farzana is probably talking about interactive/form button page items, aka kPushButtonItemBoss.
Script labels are retrieved via IScriptLabel (base class(!) of IScript).
For a setter util, search the forum (past december) for "SetScriptingTag".
There are also the "name" kFormNameAttrBoss and "description" kFormDescriptionAttrBoss attributes, e.g. reachable via IID_IGRAPHICSTYLE_DESCRIPTOR on the object, or IGraphicAttributeSuite.
Dirk

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