Adobe Community: [JS][CS4] - populating a drop down with list of printers?

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1. Larry G. Schneider,

Mar 27, 2012 9:53 AM in reply to booyajamo

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When I run the script that you have in the box above I get

Is this not what you get? Try commenting out the first var setting the printerList and target illustrator like this

#target illustrator
 
//var printerList = app.printerList.Printer.name;
 
var w = new Window ("dialog");
w.orientation = 'row';
var dropDown = w.add("statictext", undefined, "Please select the printer");
var dropDown = w.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, printerList);
dropDown.selection = 0;
var buttonGroup = w.add ("group");
buttonGroup.add ("button", undefined, "OK");
w.center();
w.show();

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2. booyajamo,

Mar 27, 2012 3:20 PM in reply to Larry G. Schneider

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Hi Larry,

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I don't get the results you get. The screen shot below is what I get:

I copied the exact code you had. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Lindsay

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3. Larry G. Schneider,

Mar 27, 2012 5:25 PM in reply to booyajamo

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What OS? It appears a PC; I'm on a Mac. Maybe that's the difference.

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4. booyajamo,

Mar 27, 2012 7:07 PM in reply to Larry G. Schneider

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Naw, I'm on a Mac too.

OS X 10.7.3

hmmmm......

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5. booyajamo,

Mar 27, 2012 7:44 PM in reply to booyajamo

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I found this thread helpful

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/533408

In that example they are able to write the printers to a text frame (which does work on my machine). Any ideas as to how to write that list into an array I can populate a drop down with?

Thanks for all your help!

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6. CarlosCanto,

Mar 28, 2012 8:28 AM in reply to booyajamo

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in that thread example, I added this two lines to write the names to an array

var arrayPrinterNames = []; // added
for (var i = 0; i < iCount; ++i) {
          arrayPrinterNames.push(app.printerList[i].name); // added

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7. CarlosCanto,

Mar 29, 2012 12:13 AM in reply to CarlosCanto

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it also takes forever in my system, so I would add the following line

var pL = app.printerList;

and use pL to avoid multiple calls to the system. for example

var arrayPrinterNames = [];
for (var i = 0; i < iCount; ++i) {
          arrayPrinterNames.push(pL[i].name);

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8. booyajamo,

Mar 29, 2012 4:22 AM in reply to CarlosCanto

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Thanks Carlos!

I was finding that my system was taking forever to load the printer names as well and I thought maybe it was unique to my machine so thanks for mentioning yours was the same.

Thanks for your help!

Lindsay

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