[JS] Move a Guide that has a ScriptLabel

Question

I am trying move a specific guide. The guide is on the master page and is named myGuide
Here is what I currently trying, but it doesn't work.
app.activeDocument.guides.item("myGuide").location = 2
Thanks in advanced for any help.
Dan
P.S. I will this to work in CS2 and CS3.

Answer 1

FYI - beating my own drum here, but I think this might be helpful: by installing our free 'APID ToolAssistant' (formerly Active Page Items Runtime) plug-in, you gain some additional script functionality in CS/CS2/CS3.
Amongst a host of other functionality, it's also a bit of a grab-bag of functionality we needed to get in ExtendScript for our own use - each time we needed a new feature, we just plunked it into the plug-in and made it accessible via the ExtendScript DOM.
One of the things is that it adds an event called 'labeledPageItems' to the Document object, which returns an array (not a collection) of all matching items. For example, if I have a document that contains a frame, and two guides that all have the label 'test' assigned, the following script returns an array that contains all of them:
var theDoc = app.activeDocument;
var theItems = theDoc.labeledPageItems("test");
alert(theItems);
labeledPageItems accepts wildcard expressions (not grep - just simple wildcards; "*" = zero or more chars, "?" = exactly one char) - so you can do things like:
var theDoc = app.activeDocument;
var theItems = theDoc.labeledPageItems("t*");
alert(theItems);
to grab all page items whose label starts with 't'.
There are some more options (e.g also select by layer or spread).
If you install the plug-in you can inspect some short docs via the ExtendScript Object Model viewer.
Other interesting freely available features are:
- a progress bar window with optional Cancel button for use with long-running scripts in InDesign CS/CS2 (which became obsolete, but is still functional in CS3),
- clearing the InDesign undo stack during long running scripts,
- temporarily locking InDesign into a fake 'modal mode' (so the user cannot interfere with it while you're juggling things with scripts and external programs - I use it to make fake 'modal dialogs' that seem to originate from InDesign, but are really created from a REALbasic app),
- etc...
The latest APID ToolAssistant 1.0.45 adds a new event Document.multiPropertyAssign, which allows you to assign a whole collection of objects and attributes new values in one event call - which represents a single undo, and seems to speed up some scripts (the jury is still out - in some situations, there is marked improvement, in other situations it's actually slower). Docs can be seen via the ExtendScript toolkit.
What's available in ExtendScript is a bit of a hodgepodge as it is mostly driven by our own needs rather than by design.
This part of the functionality of the plug-in is all free (as in 'at no cost') - APID ToolAssistant has two modes (licensed and unlicensed), and you can use this stuff with an unlicensed version installed; check the docs for more info.
http://www.rorohiko.com/apidtoolassistant.html
http://www.rorohiko.com/activepageitemsdeveloper.html
(the downloadable demo of APID contains PDF documentation that is relevant to the free APID ToolAssistant)
Hope it's useful!
Cheers,
Kris