Selecting Text

Once you understand text ranges, selecting text is easy. The following script selects the first paragraph in the active document.

Setting an insertion point is also easy; just make the beginning and ending text locations the same. (In other words, an insertion point is a text range and not a text location.)

Note the use of the constant FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET to determine the end of the paragraph. It includes all contents and the end of paragraph marker.

//get the first paragraph in the active document
var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var mainflow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;
var tframe = mainflow.FirstTextFrameInFlow;
var pgf = tframe.FirstPgf;

var tRange= new TextRange(); //create a text range
//set the range to be the first paragraph
tRange.beg.obj = pgf;
tRange.beg.offset = 0;
tRange.end.obj = pgf;
tRange.end.offset = Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET;
//make the selection
doc.TextSelection = tRange;

Here is a paragraph (with a quote from Lewis Carroll), selected using the script.