Shape of textframe indesign

hi
i develop an indesign extension with CS extension builder 2 and flashbuilder 4.6.
how to retrieve the shape (rectangle, oval, polygon...) of a textframe, i don't find any properties in textframe class ?
thanks
Simon

You need to examine the path to figure out the shape.
You might be able to infer the shape by duplicating the text frame and changing the content type to unassigned and then checking the class name...

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If you want to get a collection of all tables which starts in a text frame you'd do something like this: myTextFrame.tables. However, this will not find tables continued from a previous text frame. For that you need to work backwards and infer it from the textframes the table occupies (assuming there is one).
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[Forum FAQ] How to find and replace text strings in the shapes in Excel using Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
is available for representing the entire Microsoft Excel application, we can invoke the relevant Properties and Methods to help us to
interact with Excel document.
The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
You can use the PowerShell script below to list the text in the shapes and replace the text string to “text”:
$text = “text1”,”text2”,”text3”,”text3”
$Excel
= New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $true
$Workbook
= $Excel.workbooks.open("d:\shape.xlsx")
#Open the excel file
$Worksheet
= $Workbook.Worksheets.Item("shapes")
#Open the worksheet named "shapes"
$shape = $Worksheet.Shapes
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$i=0
# This number is used to replace the text in sequence as the variable “$text”
Foreach ($sh in $shape){
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# Get the textbox in the shape
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text =
$text[$i++]
#Change the value of the textbox in the shape one by one
$WorkBook.Save()
#Save workbook in excel
$WorkBook.Close()
#Close workbook in excel
[void]$excel.quit()
#Quit Excel
Before invoking the methods and properties, we can use the cmdlet “Get-Member” to list the available methods.
Besides, we can also find the documents about these methods and properties in MSDN:
Workbook.Worksheets Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835542(v=office.15).aspx
Worksheet.Shapes Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff821817(v=office.15).aspx
Shape.TextFrame Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839162(v=office.15).aspx
TextFrame.Characters Method (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195027(v=office.15).aspx
Characters.Text Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838596(v=office.15).aspx
After running the script above, we can see the changes in the figure below:
Figure 2.
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Indesign crashes

Hello,
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Hi Govind,
There is no possibilities for crash. Post the js code... Let me look on it. Else, if happen, u restart the application. It'll work well...
Regards,
Vel.

How to knock out the shape of a placed object

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2. and 3. When Canvas and/or SVG techniques become wide-spread and well-implemented features in most browsers, software like Muse or Edge Animate might consider offering basic drawing tools for simple shapes. But that's not happening very soon, I'm afraid. And when it happens, users will immediately test and use it beyond its limitations, and start legitimately requesting for even more options (like your point 3). So: don't hold your breath for it...
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Cheers to Muse 2014.1 !

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