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August 26, 2011 22:53
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Importing a rich symbol
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function insertSymbol( | |
inSymbolName, | |
inPath) | |
{ | |
var dom = fw.getDocumentDOM(); | |
var middleX = Math.round(dom.width / 2); | |
var middleY = Math.round(dom.height / 2); | |
try { | |
// first assume the symbol is already in the library and try to | |
// insert an instance. there doesn't seem to be an API to list | |
// the symbols in the document, so we just have to try it. | |
dom.insertSymbolAt(inSymbolName, { | |
x: middleX, | |
y: middleY | |
}); | |
} catch (exception) { | |
// if we don't refresh the reference to the DOM, the call to | |
// importSymbol works, but it doesn't preserve the richness of | |
// the symbol for some reason. refreshing the dom var fixes | |
// that for most symbols, but some still don't work. | |
dom = fw.getDocumentDOM(); | |
dom.importSymbol(inPath, true, true); | |
} |
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