Yeah, but there doesn't seem to be a title property to check..

With layers you can see a layer by talking to activeDocument.layers["layername"], doesn't work with documents though..

I tried documents["documentname"], but it returns undefined..

This doesn't work at the moment. I'll look into it to see how easy it would be to implement. Until then, you might use a local lookup table:

var docs = {};
docs[doc.file.name] = doc;
...

I haven't tried the above code, but it might work ;)

Just what I was looking for! Thanks Juerg

I wrote a bit of code to check through the documents and find one that matches the right file name.

When I have the document I'm checking for as the active document, it prints out the correct layers.length.

When I have another document as the active document, it returns the layers.length of that document and not the one I checked for. But it does print out the correct file.name! How weird is that??

Some sample code, change the file.name to something else to try it out.

for(i=0; i<documents.length; i++){
	if(documents[i].file.name=="tile_palette.ai"){
		var pdoc=documents[i];
	}
}

print(pdoc.layers.length)
print(pdoc.file.name)

Welcome to Adobe's SDK weirdness, that I try to hide behind a friendly object oriented layer as good as I can.

I'll fix it and upload a new version soon.

Thanks for reporting it.

Thanks!

I'm just wondering if it would be possible after it's fixed to clone an object and then append to a different document.. Wait and see I guess

It's fixed now in CVS. New beta packages will follow soon.

thanks very much!

The scriptographer update works, but what I wanted to use it for doesn't:

Appending between documents doesn't seem to work..

for(i=0; i<documents.length; i++){ 
   if(documents[i].file.name=="tile_palette.ai"){ 
      var pdoc=documents[i]; 
   } 
} 
placeholder=pdoc.layers.getLayer("str").children[0].clone();

print(activeDocument.activeLayer.append(placeholder))

The print returns false when I'm in a document other then tile_palette.ai, but it returns true (i.e. it works) when I'm in the tile_palette.ai document.

Anyone have an idea how to accomplish this in another way?

I think Illustartor's internal command does not support multiple documents for this. I will handle the case where the two art objects do not share the document seperately.

It's good to know about this, because this is exactly the kind of weirdness present in Adobe's SDK that I want to iron out in my plugin.