Hi! Can someone help me? I want to sort objects on airboard from bottom to top by rounded Y for simplify sorting process. Rounding will create virtual rows (different color on pic below) highest value goes first (Top object in the layer list). Then each row I want to sort by X, from right to the left (so high value goes first - revers order)
Here is example
Result of arranging objects in the layer should be (from top to down): 1,2,3,4,5,6 and etc
This is like sorting 2 dimensional array in revers order:
X,Y array
myobjlist= [[124,2],[23,2],[60,1],[150,1],[12,2],[20,0],[50,1],[40,0],[70,0]]
sorted(myobjlist)
will create next array
[[124,2] [23,2][12,2] [150,1] [60,1] [50,1] [70,0] [40,0] [20,0]]
Object with[124,2] coordinates will be first in layers list and [20,0] - last
Example script that doing this but with some mistakes
// JavaScript Document for Illustrator
var dec = 20;
if (app.documents.length > 0) { var docRef = app.activeDocument; var selectedItems = selection; var nbObjSelect = selectedItems.length; if (nbObjSelect) { var rep, iObj, newtop; var TabTop = []; rep = prompt("Tolérance ?", dec); dec= rep*1; for (var i = 0; i < nbObjSelect; i++) { iObj = selectedItems[i]; TabTop.push([iObj.top,i]) } TabTop.sort(); TabTop.reverse(); //alert(TabTop.join("\r")); newtop = TabTop[0][0]; docRef.layers.add(); nbLayers = docRef.layers.length; for(i = 0, k = nbLayers-1; i < nbObjSelect; i++) { if (newtop > TabTop[i][0]-dec && newtop < TabTop[i][0]+dec) { iObj = selectedItems[TabTop[i][1]]; iObj.move(docRef.layers[0],ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND); docRef.layers[0].name = "Rang "+k; } else { newtop = TabTop[i][0]; k++; i--; docRef.layers.add(); } } var layerAct, nbObjLayer, n, nObj, j, jObj; var TabLeft = []; for(i = 0; i < k; i++) { layerAct = docRef.layers[i]; nbObjLayer = layerAct.pageItems.length; for(n = 0; n < nbObjLayer; n++) { nObj = layerAct.pageItems[n]; TabLeft.push([nObj.left,nObj]); } TabLeft.sort(); //TabLeft.revers(); alert(TabLeft.join("\r")); for(j = 0; j < nbObjLayer; j++) { jObj = TabLeft[j][1]; jObj.zOrder(ZOrderMethod.SENDTOBACK); } TabLeft = []; } } else alert("Vous n'avez rien sélectionné !","De Elleere");
}
else alert("Pour l'exécution de ce sript un document doit être ouvert !","Script Alerte de Elleere !");Thanks to renél80416020
Tolerance value is fine. But there is some problems:
- It creates last layer (virtual row) in top of the list.
- Each object in the row should be sorted from right to left
- it creates layers with objects. In finale will be good if all sorted objects will be in one layer
see pic below
