Placing FXG images and working with symbols

Question

Has anyone been able to place fxg images in illustrator using applescript or actionscript? We spent a ton of time trying to troubleshoot it today and counldnt figure out why, but we couldnt seem to place them on a page. That and symbol scripting has been pretty tough to find any reference or examples of scripts. Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for the direction but that didnt seem to solve the problem for me.Whenever I make a FSG it has a sidecar image folder becuase we use a lot of rasters with our art. Mostly tiffs. Whenever we place it using your code or applescript, we get an error:  It give a couple errors in a ropw: one in the AI app saying error saying it cannot find a missing link and on in the javascript or applescript saying:
Adobe Illustrator got an error: JavaScript execution error. Error 9080: Unable to set placed item's file, is the file path provided valid? Or try to use the raster item instead.
Line: 7
->  iplaced.file = fileRef; // add actual image/**/
Seems like a bug. I thought about trying to figure out how to either drag and drop a whole ton of them from bridge then they may be able to be assigned as symbol items but Im not sure how I could import all as individual symbols with filenames for names or even better how I can resolve this issue. Its a apin dealing with EPS files and this FXG format really seems to do everything we want.
Any ideas/help would be appreciated.