Number of actual state of multi-state objects

Question

Hello,
is it possible create automatic number of actual state and automatic total number of states in mulsti-state objects?
Thank you for your answer.
Martin

Answer 1

@Martin – the following script will show you an alert message of the active state of all first-level MSOs in the active document (it will not show nested MSOs like in groups, MSOs anchored to text frames, MSOs inside MSOs etc.pp.).
Screen shot of the result message, that can be selected and copied to the clipboard for further use:
Code is ExtendScript (JavaScript):
//ShowActiveStatesForAllFirstlevelMSOs_DOCUMENT.jsx
//Uwe Laubender
//See discussion at:
//http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1365865?tstart=0
* @@@BUILDINFO@@@ ShowActiveStatesForAllFirstlevelMSOs_DOCUMENT.jsx !Version! Sat Jan 04 2014 11:41:46 GMT+0100
if(app.documents.length === 0){alert("No document open. STOP.");exit()};
if(app.documents[0].multiStateObjects.length === 0){alert("No First Level MSOs found. STOP.");exit()};
var d=app.documents[0];
var allLevelOneMSOs = d.multiStateObjects;
var allLevelOneMSONames = d.multiStateObjects.everyItem().name;
var allActiveStates = d.multiStateObjects.everyItem().activeStateIndex;
var numberOfStates = new Array();
var nameOfActiveState = new Array();
for(var n=0;n<allLevelOneMSOs.length;n++){
    numberOfStates[n] = allLevelOneMSOs[n].states.length;
    nameOfActiveState[n] = allLevelOneMSOs[n].states[allLevelOneMSOs[n].activeStateIndex].name;
var resultArray = new Array();
for(var n=0;n<allLevelOneMSOs.length;n++){
    resultArray[n] = [
        "\""+allLevelOneMSONames[n]+"\""+
        "\t"+"\""+nameOfActiveState[n]+"\""+
        "\t"+"is active state: "+"\t"+(allActiveStates[n]+1)+" of "+numberOfStates[n]
resultArray;
scrollableAlert("Active states of all First Level MSOs in document",resultArray,false,"Cancel");
function scrollableAlert(titleString/*String*/,inputArray/*Array*/,listActive/*[true] || [false]*/,buttonText/*String*/){
    //Basic function by Peter Kahrel, enhanced by Marijan Tompa [Tomaxxi] at: http://tomaxxi.com/2010/07/scrollable-alert/
    //Further enhanced by Uwe Laubender with a additional argument: listActive, buttonText
    var inputArrayAsString, w, list
    if(inputArray instanceof Array){
       inputArrayAsString = inputArray.join ("\r")
    else{inputArrayAsString = inputArray};
    w = new Window("dialog", titleString);
    list = w.add("edittext", undefined, inputArrayAsString, {multiline: true, scrolling: true});
    list.maximumSize.height = w.maximumSize.height-100;
    list.minimumSize.width = 540;
    list.active = listActive;
    w.add("button", undefined, buttonText, {name: "ok"});
    w.show();
}; //END OF function scrollableAlert()
If you have questions about this script or want a script that is more functional, just send me a personal message (PM) via this forum.
Uwe