Read color values for swatches in InDesign CS5, js

Hi,
I need to read color values for swatches. I got this in OMV and was hoping it would give me an array of the color values for all existing swatches, but I am only getting "Object color":
mySwatches = myDoc.swatches[1].getElements();
alert (mySwatches)
Thank you for your help.
Yulia

Hi Yulia,
Try this:
var
    mD = app.activeDocument, // document
    mS = mD.swatches, // document swatches
    gS = 4, // swatch index
    mC = [mS[gS].name, mS[gS].colorValue, mS[gS].space]; // swatch properties
alert(mC.join("\r"));
Hope that helps.
Marijan (tomaxxi)
http://tomaxxi.com

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