Adobe Community: Getting Absolute Position of a Floating/Dockable Palette

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1. Dan Ebberts,

Nov 2, 2011 3:11 PM in reply to Christian Lett

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This gives me the upper left corner of my floating dialog:

alert(uiPal.frameBounds.left + ", " + uiPal.frameBounds.top);

Dan

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2. Christian Lett,

Nov 3, 2011 6:52 AM in reply to Dan Ebberts

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Thanks Dan, but I can't get it to work. Here's my code:

{

     // Object UI Constructor
     function UI() {
          this.myUI = null;
     }

     UI.prototype.buildUI = function(thisObj) {
          var me = thisObj; // Because in onButtonClick(), "this" isn't this "this", so make "me" this "this"!

          function addButton(container, buttonBounds, txt, id) {
               var btn = container.add("button", buttonBounds, txt);
               btn.id= id;
               btn.onClick = onButtonClick;

               return btn;
          }

          function onButtonClick() {

alert(me.frameBounds.left + ", " + me.frameBounds.top); // It's here where it fails - obviously I'm accessing the wrong thing, so how do I get the frameBounds of the palette from within here?

// Create the dialog, which I want underneath the button just clicked

         this.myUI.grp = this.myUI.add("group", [0,0,200,30]);
         this.myUI.grp.spacing = 0;
         this.myUI.grp.alignChildren = "[right, top]";

         // Add a couple of buttons
         addButton(this.myUI.grp, [0, 0, 50, 25], "Foo", 0);
         addButton(this.myUI.grp, [0, 0, 50, 25], "Bar", 1);

// Show the palette
this.myUI.layout.layout(true);

// Resize code
this.myUI.grp.minimumSize = this.myUI.grp.size;

         this.myUI.layout.resize();
         this.myUI.onResizing = this.myUI.onResize = function () {this.layout.resize(); }
     }

          // Main
     var ui = new UI();
     ui.buildUI(this);

}

I'm probably doing something stupid, so any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Christian

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3. Alan_AEDScripts,

May 29, 2012 12:00 PM in reply to Christian Lett

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Not sure but 2 things to throw into the mix....

Accessing something relatively... thisButton.parent.parent.parent.bounds

Also in the object model I noticed there is

Button.bounds as well as Button.windowBounds

might be of some help.

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4. David Torno,

Jun 1, 2012 3:35 PM in reply to Christian Lett

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Using $.screens will give you the monitor screen size and maybe help in pin pointing your window location.

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5. Alan_AEDScripts,

Jul 7, 2012 4:56 AM in reply to David Torno

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Actually I'm trying to work this out at the moment, trying to find the position of a docked panel.

//=======================================================

var w = Window.find("","TheWindowName");

alert(w.frameBounds.left + ", " + w.frameBounds.top);

//=======================================================

I think it's excluded from the Script UI (window, palette, dialog). Alternatively the Scripting guide(UI) says you can put in a

resourceName which I presume is a variable?

Any pointers appreciated...?

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6. Alan_AEDScripts,

Jul 7, 2012 8:28 AM in reply to Alan_AEDScripts

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So here I am using a global to reference a docked panel...

//=======================================================

var pnl = (thisObj instanceof Panel) ? thisObj : new Window("palette", "", [200, 200, 1265,242]);

gReference = pnl;

//So from another script...

//instead of :

var w = Window.find("","TheWindowName");

//using this

var w = Window.find(gReference);

alert(gReference.windowBounds); // incorrect because it's a panel not a window.

alert(gReference.location); // [0,0] relative.

//finds the docked panel... all good but the frameBounds/windowBounds property doesn't exist for "Panel".

//so I can't find the screen position of an element only it's relative position in the panel.

//dead end?

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7. Klustre.,

Oct 28, 2012 2:54 PM in reply to Alan_AEDScripts

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Just found out that it's possible to retrieve the cursor's absolute location using an eventlistener. From the ScriptUI for Dummies guide by Peter Kahrel:

var w = new Window ("dialog");
var b = w.add ("button", undefined, "Qwerty");
b.addEventListener ("click", function (k) {whatsup (k)});
function whatsup (p)
{
if (p.button == 2) {$.writeln ("Right-button clicked.")}
if (p.altKey) {$.writeln ("Alt key pressed.")}
$.writeln ("X: " + p.clientX);
$.writeln ("Y: " + p.clientY);
}
w.show ();

But this still gives a relative value. The CS6 Tools Guide (p.153) says you can also use screenX and screenY. So slightly modified:

var w = new Window ("dialog");
var b = w.add ("button", undefined, "Qwerty");
w.addEventListener ("click", function (k) {whatsup (k)});
function whatsup (p)
{
$.writeln ("X: " + p.screenX);
$.writeln ("Y: " + p.screenY);
w.close();
}
w.show ();

This returns the absolute location when the button is clicked. Which in turn, you can pass to the bounds of the new window.

Alternatively you might be able to show() a group or UI element when the button is clicked.

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