[JS CS4] define a selection area

Question

Hi all,
I have to isolate repetitive areas in documents of hundreds of pages. My intention is to select the items located in this area.
I wrote a while ago a script to find an item at xy location but this time, x & y will always be different and I can't imagine trying to catch items randomly until the script finds something.
So I thought that maybe I could mimic the selection arrow and drag a selection area from x1y1 to x2y2 to select what's inside that field. My first guess is that js is not enough to do that so I guess it's more c++ related but I am not even sure.
Does someone have any clue on that ?
TIA
Loic

Answer 1

Piece of cake, Loic.
selectInRectangle (app.activeWindow.activePage, 5,10, 120,100);
// Maybe x,y,wide,high would work better?
function selectInRectangle (source, x1,y1, x2,y2)
     var it;
     app.select(null);
     for (it=0; it<source.pageItems.length; it++)
     //     Only select all inside:
          if (source.pageItems[it].geometricBounds[0] >= y1 &&
               source.pageItems[it].geometricBounds[1] >= x1 &&
               source.pageItems[it].geometricBounds[2] <= y2 &&
               source.pageItems[it].geometricBounds[3] <= x2)
               source.pageItems[it].select (SelectionOptions.ADD_TO);