Is there a way to edit the text in a symbol instance without breaking the link to the symbol?
a really simplen example would be several instances of the same button graphic but with different labels.
I know these things are possible in Fireworks, but couldn't find a way to make it happen in Illustrator.
I'd like to fill a shape with instances of a symbol. The sybmols should vary in size but never touch each other or the outer edges of my shape. Is there a script that can do this?
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If I right click on a symbol instance, I get a menu item, "Break link to symbol." How can I do that same thing in Javascript?
1) That is, how do I use Javascript to break the link between a SymbolItem and the Symbol it represents? (i.e. without deleting the Symbol?)
2) Once the link is broken, how do I locate the Layer that was created when the link was broken? That is, once the link is broken, it is no longer a SymbolItem; it becomes a Layer instead. How do I locate that Layer?
3) How do I convert the Layer to a GroupItem?
How to do it ?
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here's the bit of code which is supposed to set the text, image and link for a symbol used multiple times on the Stage.
var names = ["melz", "brom", "calm", "micj", "mick", "brir", "mato", "brym", "azin", "hugh", "nicl", "bonr", "lisa"];
var name = null;
for(var x = 0; x < names.length; x++){
name = names[x];
var initials = (name[0]+""+name[3]).toUpperCase();
var cursymbol = sym.getSymbol(name);
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The text and image code work, however my problem is with setting the link. It always sets all the symbols to the last name in the names[] array. What I want it to do is to set the link to the personalised name in the array. So the HH button will link to hugh.html and the BM button will link to brym.html etc.
For now I'm going to play around a bit and see what happens.
How to create two instances of the same symbol and change the texts and images inside the instances to have different texts (so I mean different from the other instance)?
Somehow, instead of using dynamic creation by using code, I can't manage this. Everytime I change a text inside A (instance of symbol1), the text of B (instance of the same symbol1) is also changed. The same with images. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I can't imagine symbols are always reference types, 'cause what's the meaning of having symbols then?
I'll start off by saying that my knowledge of webcode is not the best, but I am learning as I go.
I am working on a project that uses "if then" statments. For example
sym.setVariable("test","0");
if (test = 0) {// Code }
else { / /Other code }
Now the "if then" statment works fine however my problem is the code that I am able to put into one of the two options seems limited. I'm not sure if I have it set up wrong or what, but I need to be able to delete and create instances of symbols/elements depending on the variable "test".
So for example if "test" equals 0 I want to delete symbol "update" so my code is...
sym.setVariable("test","0");
if (test = 0) {sym.getSymbol("update").deleteSymbol();}
else {}
However this code doesn't work??? If I just use
sym.getSymbol("update").deleteSymbol();
then the code works fine. But when I put it in the if than statment it fails to excute? I can put other code in the if than statment, such as alert(test); and I get the proper alerts ect.... So I don't believe it is the statment itself. But I could be wrong.
I'd like to delete all symbol instances on a click event, the
sym.getSymbol("SymbolDefinitionName").deleteSymbol();
only works on one symbol, and I've tried combining it with both
sym.getComposition().getSymbols("SymbolDefinitionName");
and
sym.getSymbolElement().children();
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