Selected objects and markers?

Hello!
Not sure what just happened, but I suspect I may have hit a hotkey shortcut for hiding the visual aid for selected objects.
How do I change it back? I cannot see anymore which element (object, anchor, path, etc.) that I have selected on my artboard.
This has happened to me before and I cannot remember how I fixed it, although I know it's a simple fix.
Googling didn't help me, I'm afraid.

View >> Smart Guides (Enableel with checkmark)
Illustrator >> Preferences >> Smart Guides (Check more items to show more)
Adobe decided about a decade ago to change the keyboard shortcut of CMD U from Ungroup to smart guides, I still make this mistake occasionally.

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I have instantiated QueryClient object using the query manager. I have 5 dimension in my MOLAP cube where one of the dimension is TIME dimension. I create a selection object for each dimension and apply the selection array to the queryClient object. I create selection objects by using its constructor which takes dimension unique id as argument. I get OLAP Source not found error when I take this approach. When I do create a selection object by queryClient.createQueryAccess.getSelection("DimUniqID") for time dimension only, everything works fine and I see results. What is special about selections and time dimension ? Can anybody throw some light on this or there is some flaw in my understanding ?
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Did you review the topic "Defining a Query Programmatically" that is part of the BI Beans Help documentation. This has some good examples.
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Script to apply a random CMYK swatches from a group of swatches to selected objects.

I would like to write some scripts for randomising the allocation of swatches to adjacent object.
Example:
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AS
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activate
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I would like to write some scripts for randomising the allocation of swatches to adjacent object.
Example:
Imagine a map of Europe and all her nation states/territories. I have a User Defined Swatch Library. I can open the AI document it was made from as I understand from this thread that having the swatches as objects on the page makes them easier to be referenced in a script.
I want to iterate through the selected objects and randomly assign one of the colours in the swatch document as a fill to each object. It would be great if hidden swatches (they are all small rectangular 'colour chip' filled paths) on page were not included in the reference swatches randomly choosen from.
Iterating the selected objects I can do, but not sure what references I need to use to create an array of swatches to randomly choose from.
I see I can make an array of swatches using the general swatch group from Adobe's CreateSwatchGroup scripts:
JS
var docRef = app.documents.add(DocumentColorSpace.CMYK)
// Create a new SwatchGroup
var swatchGroup = docRef.swatchGroups.add();
swatchGroup.name = "CreateSwatchGroup";
// Get list of swatches in general swatch group
var genSwatchGroup = docRef.swatchGroups[0];
// Collect 5 random swatches from general swatch group and move to new group
var i = 0;
while (i < 5) {
          var swatches = genSwatchGroup.getAllSwatches();
          swatchCount = swatches.length;
          var swatchIndex = Math.round(Math.random() * (swatchCount - 1)); // 0-based index
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          if (swatches[swatchIndex].color.typename != "PatternColor" && swatches[swatchIndex].color.typename != "GradientColor") {
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swatches = swatchGroup.getAllSwatches();
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tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
activate
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-- Create a new SwatchGroup
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If someone can help me to create the Swatch Array object of swatches loaded from a seperate document (or unique layer) then I think I can work my way to changing the fill on the existing paths (the nations in my map of Europe example).
Would be very cool if I could detect neighbooring paths (nieghbooring nations in my map of Europe example) make sure the colour being assigned is not within a certain hue/CMYK range of the random colour and if it is rechoose random colour. I have no idea how to perform the logic of determining neighbooring paths in an Illustartor script. Anybody?!
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CS3: elements sorting of selection object

Hi people!
I think U know that in CS2 app.selection[0] always return LAST selected object
and app.selection[app.selection.length] return FIRST selected object
its logically good way.
but in CS3 Adobe changed this order. And now sorting of objects in this array depend not from selection order.
now question: how to determine the first and last selected object in CS3?
Му collection of cs2 scripts be based on this behoviour.
Did anybody know how to solve this problem. May be exist simple way via javascript? Or harder - via third party plugins...
Help please!

>now question: how to determine the first and last selected object in CS3?
Unfortunately, you can no longer do that in CS3. I don't know of any workarounds.
Peter

Ungroup selected items and delete them

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I have a code that removes the tags (if there are tags) from objects and then deletes them.
The problem is if tagged objects are grouped. Or even grouped objects in another group.
I need to ungroup the selected objects and then untagging and deleting them.
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I think we need an extra loop through all pageItems of the selection, checking the tag names.
You could assemble the length of the found objects tagged with "product". If the length is not 0, use a confirm dialog like that: "You are about to untag and delete [number] of objects tagged "product". Do you really want to do that?" [No] [Yes]. If [No] is clicked, the script will stop.
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Uwe
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Selecting objects in a layer to copy and paste into a new doc?

How can I select all objects in a layer and copy and paste the objects into a new document? We are having issues with the copy and paste method. Is this because it uses the operating systems clipboard?

the sample I mentioned describes how to duplicate all selected objects in a document, using
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now if you only want to copy items in a layer you can use either the index number (for instance, top layer index = 0) or the name of the layer (for instance "Layer1"), use this, you don't have to select them
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I am so frustrated. I put ab object and/or a text box on a page and then cannot select it - the Text cursor (not pointer) is put on the object or text box and nothing happens. It is so frustrating! I then open up Everweb and the same thing,

I put an object and/or a text box on a page and then cannot select it - the Text cursor (not pointer, just the text cursor shows) is put on the object or text box and nothing happens. It is so frustrating! I then open up Everweb and the same thing, I create an object and then try and elect it to make it bigger etc and cannot. I know it must be something system wide as it happens in apps other than Pages.

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Moving selected objects up and down with keyboard is automaticly applying a colour fill.

Hi,
My InDesign is strangely applying a colour fill when i move an objects up or down using the directional arrow in my keyboard. If the colour pallet is open. Nudging an object up makes the pallet disappear on the first press. It then reappears on the second press while filling the object (text frame) with black. This is instensly frustrating. How can I stop this? Suggestions would be very appreciated.
I have already reset the preferences.
Cheers,

Thanks for your reply.
I fixed the problem by replacing the keyboard!
Cheers,
Nick Meadows
0421 976 704
www.nickmeadows.com
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:01:22 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Moving selected objects up and down with keyboard is automaticly applying a colour fill.
    Re: Moving selected objects up and down with keyboard is automaticly applying a colour fill.
    created by Peter Spier in InDesign - View the full discussion
I have to ask if you reset the prefs uing one of the methods in this thread: Replace Your Preferences If not, there's a good chance you left out one of the files, so please try again using one of the listed methods. And please tell us the OS and your version of ID, including the patch level. Obviously this is not normal behavior. It sounds as if the Swatches panel has focus when you are pressing the arrow keys.
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Zoom-in tool and selected objects

Hi there,
I am wondering about the possibility of making the zoom-in tool directs to the selected Object or Layer, and how that increase the accessibility with the shortcuts like CTRL+(+).
Regards,

Hi,
you should make "selection objects" which represent your rect.s.
they could have a drawMe(Rectangle source, Rectangle dest) method which would be called in the rendering loop. While source represents the selected area of the orignal image and dest the destination aera which drawMe would actually draw the image into.
Source would get set on mouse up after dragging, dest would be set after the click equal to your drawing area.
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Hi,
Why such a standard and important functionality like selecting objects or areas of the screen, then copy and paste them are missing in the product?
A

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I have just registered so I could reply to this thread.
The registration process was very ... aehm ... frustrating, I was only able to fill in the correct Captcha after about 10 ties. But ... this is not unexpected, when working with a Microsfoft product. How am I supposed to know whether that bloody captcha
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The work needed to make the object selection work as it did in Word 2007 was out of scope for this release. It's not as
simple as using the same feature that existed in the last version since we upgrading our graphics/art features; the way the shapes/objects need to be selected is different than how "old" graphics/art is selectable in Word 2007.
That said, the "select object" tool that exists in Word 2010 should allow you to select individual shapes. You can select
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You are bunch of incompetent amateurs.
If I used such lame excuse for missing important functionality at work, I would be very soon replaced by a more competent programmer.
This time I am not a programmer, I am AN USER. And, as an user I do not care if your internal data structure for new objects doesn't let you do something easily. Find a way to implement that feature or change the data structure. Period.

I would like cut out an object using the quick select tool and drop the object into another picture. Can anyone help

I am using background pictures and want to cut out objects from other jpegs using the quick select tool and drop them into the background picture. So if i have a banana and select the object i need to copy the banana into the other background.
Hope this makes sense.
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Select banana. Right click>layer via copy. Move tool. Click and drag to other file. Drop on image.
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hope can get the advice.
thanks
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Hi
Now try this:
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PARAMETERS: P_CAR   TYPE I,
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*       CLASS vehicle DEFINITION
CLASS VEHICLE DEFINITION.
PUBLIC SECTION.
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By only one function group how can u read the data of a certain vehicle?
Yes you can create in the function group an internal table where u store the data of every car: in this way u use the internal table like it was an instance, but you should consider here the example is very simple. Here we have only the speed as characteristic, but really we can have many complex characteristics.
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