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40. moluapple,

May 13, 2012 6:40 PM in reply to CarlosCanto

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Carlos,

I think I learned this from the Adobe Illustrator CS3 FlashPanel Sample, and I have using this method for quite a long time.

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41. CarlosCanto,

May 13, 2012 9:10 PM in reply to moluapple

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yeah, that's where I got it from...that's from ActionScript -> BridgeTalk to Illustrator, but it worked the same from Ai BridgeTalk to itself.

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42. Loic_aigon,

May 14, 2012 2:43 AM in reply to CarlosCanto

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Hi all,

That's interesting, the doc is using a bridgeTalk but you should be able to call the function directly. Or this is either related to Illustrator or CS3- versions. I did use a few ScriptUI/SWF projects with ExternalInterface but never needed to use a bridgeTalk. Anyway I am very fond of theses technologies

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Loic

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43. moluapple,

May 14, 2012 5:18 AM in reply to Loic_aigon

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Hi Loic,

With Indesign that's true, but sadly not Illustrator, even with CS6.

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44. Loic_aigon,

May 14, 2012 5:21 AM in reply to moluapple

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Hi Mark,

Ok I ignored it thx for the info !

Loic

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45. Mathias17,

May 15, 2012 8:05 AM in reply to moluapple

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Can I recommend a slight revision to this?

Enable Up and Down arrow keys when caret is in the Scale text field, which would increase or decrease the Scale value by 1. Also, Shift+Up and Shift+Down as well (which would bump the percent by 10% of course).

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46. emil emil,

May 15, 2012 9:15 AM in reply to Mathias17

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Yes, if its possible to implement Mathias suggestion, this will be great. Meanwhile the closest alternative is to press and hold with the mouse the left or right buttons of the scroll bar. However I noticed that doing so with the panel will change the value but not give a real time feedback of the change and will update the screen redraw after releasing the mouse while ith the original non-modal window it does update in real time feedback but it flickers.

Nevertheless, great job guys, you rock! I find this script as a better alternative to a assign a precise stroke weight even when using a single path. The predefined increments available in the Illustrator's Stroke panel are not very practical for me. I often need fine tuning of strokes in the range of 0.25 to 3 points and I end up spending a lot of time typing trial and error values in that range to get precisely the desired weight. Your script makes this much easier and interactively.

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47. CarlosCanto,

May 15, 2012 10:08 AM in reply to emil emil

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I hear you...I'll update the script as Mathias suggested, does that work for you too emil?

anything else while I'm at it?

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48. emil emil,

May 15, 2012 10:15 AM in reply to CarlosCanto

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That will be great Carlos, very much appreciated.

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