Here's some sample code:

// the character style that we're going
// to apply to the text
var textStyle = new CharacterStyle();
textStyle.font = fonts["Times"]["Bold"];
textStyle.fontSize = 9;

// the point where we're placing the text
var textPos = new Point(20,30);

// create the PointText item
var text = new PointText(textPos);

// put some content in the text item
text.content = "Hi mom!";

//apply the characterstyle
text.characterStyle = textStyle;

is it possible to assign a color to the generated text independently on which color is currently used in the color picker?

Yes it is, but the characterStyle is crashing Illustrator when I apply it to a text item.. I've submitted a bug report..

var textStyle = new CharacterStyle();

//set the fill color of the characterStyle
textStyle.fill.color=CMYKColor(0,1,1,0);

//we don't want a stroke on our text
textStyle.stroke.color=Color.NONE;

Hi Jonathon --

Thanks for this. It's very similar to what I had written, but using setContent instead, and simply supplying x and y without creating a point var. I used older versions of scriptographer quite heavily, but have yet to get up to speed with the latest incarnation.

Excellent work by the way :) It's nice to see someone else with a typographical sensitivity and a programmers heart.

It shouldn't make a difference if you use setContent(...) or content = ...
Also, you don't need to create the point var. You can also diretly create the text object like this:

var text = new PointText(new Point(x, y));

I see. I had written PointText(x,y);

ta

Yes, the old SG was not as picky about the format of parameters as the new one. E.g. wherever a point was expected, one could also just pass two values, or an array containing two values, etc. While this was nice in some parts, it increased confusion in others. Therefore I decided to get rid of it in the favour of a more strict API. I hope you wont miss that freedom...

I just fixed the bug reported by Jonathan. This will be in 2.0.023, to be released this week.

Thanks Juerg!

May be I have the same problem ?
(http://www.scriptographer.com/Forum/Help/color-and-text/ ?)
MypointText.style.fill.color works but I can see the result ? I see color on stroke but not on fill...

var sel = activeDocument.getSelectedItems();
var colorz = new Array();
var count = -1;
colorz[0]=new RGBColor(0.5,0,1);
colorz[1]=new RGBColor(1,0,0);
for (var i = 0; i (colorz.length-1)){
var count = 0;
}
txt = sel[i];
print(txt);
if (txt instanceof PointText) {
var color = colorz[count];
if (txt.style.stroke.color != null) txt.style.stroke.color = color;
if (txt.style.fill.color != null) txt.style.fill.color = color;
}
}