Grouping boxes in Quark

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#1

Is there any way to set properties of a selection to “group”?

#2

This works for Quark 6 / OS X:

tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
	tell document 1 to set tool mode to drag mode
	select menu item 10 of menu "item"
end tell

kjeld

#3

If this is done, how do I address the group?

set GroupName to select menu item 10 of menu “item”

doesn’t seem to work

Takk

#4

I have a group of text boxes and picture boxes that are selected, how do I move these en masse to a new location? I can’t seem to get “set bounds of selection” to work.

#5

I hope this helps you further. I am too short of time too find out how to move the boxes, but this script gives you some more references.
Make a new quark document with a couple of boxes and select these boxes.

tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
	tell document 1 to set tool mode to drag mode
	set theSel to selection
	select menu item 10 of menu "item"
	set theBounds to bounds of theSel
end tell
{theSel, theBounds}

Turns back this as result:

{group box 1 of layout space "Opmaak 1" of project "Project1" of application "QuarkXPress Passport", {"13,758 mm", "26,458 mm", "147,814 mm", "158,397 mm"}}