User Guide

Working with selected objects 93
Working with selected objects
When an object is selected, either programmatically (for example, using the
dom.selectAll() function) or by a user, you can return (get) or set the value of that object’s
properties using common notation that will work on various objects. In other words, you can
write a command that will get or set the value of an object’s properties whether the user selects
a Text object, or an Image object, or any other recognized object. In Fireworks, a recognizable
object is classified as one of the following element types:
■ Hotspot
■ SliceHotspot (basically, a slice)
■ Path
■ Group
■ Instance
■ Text
■ RectanglePrimitive
■ PathAttrs
■ Image
To test whether a text block is selected, type the following code:
firstSelection = fw.selection[0];
if (firstSelection == "[object Text]"){
alert("I am a text block");
}
doSkipUndefined
Boolean Set to true if Export Undefined Slices is not
selected in Document Properties.
imagesDirPath
string Relative URL to the images folder. For
example
, "images/", or "../site_images",
or
"" (an empty string) if the images and the
HTML are in the same directory.
numColumns
integer Number of columns in the HTML table.
Does not include shim column.
numRows
integer Number of rows in the HTML table. Does
not include shim row.
shimPath
string Relative URL to the shim GIF file; for
example,
"images/shim.gif".
Property (read-only) Data type Notes