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ScriptUI for dummies

Community Expert ,
Oct 12, 2010 Oct 12, 2010

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I've been putting together a text on ScriptUI, to a large extent to clear up things for myself (hence the title!). It's an introduction to ScriptUI, much of it very basic, here and there going into some detail. It's not a finished product, and comments, suggestions, and corrections are welcome. If you're interested, you can find the PDF file here: http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/scriptui.html

Peter

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Engaged ,
Oct 12, 2010 Oct 12, 2010

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Great!!!

It's very helpful.

Peter, thanks alot for all of your hard work.

Shonky

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Community Expert ,
Oct 12, 2010 Oct 12, 2010

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excellent stuff. going through it now to see if i can convert an HTML-based calculator that i made so i can output the results straight into indesign.

have noticed one thing which i think might be a typo though. on page 6 (8 of the pdf) there is a heading "Two ways of addressing controls" and rather than paragraphs of type, just the letters "aa".

am i missing something here?

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

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Community Expert ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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> am i missing something here?

No, that's a "to do", but confusing. Forgot to take it out, actually. Now fixed.

Thanks,

Peter

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Engaged ,
Oct 12, 2010 Oct 12, 2010

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Peter,

On page 6 (Pdf Page 8) under "Formatting the window frame" myPanel not declare so its giving error.

I have declare myPanel and working fine.

myWindow = new Window ("dialog", "Example", undefined, {borderless: true}) var myPanel = myWindow.add("panel", undefined) myPanel.add ("statictext", undefined, "borderless: true"); myWindow.show ();

Shonky

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Community Expert ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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Thanks, Shonky, that's fixed now.

Peter

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Advisor ,
Oct 12, 2010 Oct 12, 2010

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WOW!

Peter, this is really great!

Great tool for beginners, but for pro's also!

PS.

thanks for listing my blog!

--

tomaxxi

http://indisnip.wordpress.com/

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New Here ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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Awesome!!!

It's really great & helpful.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."
Benjamin Disraeli
British politician (1804 - 1881)

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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Nice work, Peter! Something like that has been needed since CS2.

If you'd like some help on some of the more advanced topics (embedding a png in your script, validation), drop me a line.

Bob

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Community Expert ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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Thanks, Bob -- will certainly do (and need) that.

Peter

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LEGEND ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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Very, very nice.

I wish I had the time to read it through more thoroughly, but on a quick look through, it appears to be very well done (like usual)!

Harbs

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Guru ,
Oct 13, 2010 Oct 13, 2010

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Excellent book — short and sweet.

Kasyan

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Explorer ,
Oct 14, 2010 Oct 14, 2010

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thanks Kahrel, good stuff.

expecting more from you

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Community Expert ,
Oct 14, 2010 Oct 14, 2010

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".. Jongware's fabulous CS object browsers .." (cough)

Is there a way to create (or mimic) radio button selection groups?

Screen shot 2010-10-14 at 11.05.33 PM.png

In this script I'm working on (for Illustrator!), I'd like to have either a full choice of attributes in the panel, or simply "Match teeth size". I'd like something like a radiobutton at the top of the panel, as well as one instead of the checkbox -- if the panel radiobutton is selected, the attributes should be editable, but disabled when it's not.

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Oct 14, 2010 Oct 14, 2010

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What about this: if you check "Match teeth size" the panel with the three fields is disabled and the "Center Hole" prompt and field are enabled. Uncheck "Match teeth size" and the panel is enabled and "Center hole" disabled. That way you don't need any radio buttons.

Peter

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LEGEND ,
Oct 15, 2010 Oct 15, 2010

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Re. "Match Teeth Size":

I'd probably do it Peter's way as well, but IIRC you don't need to enable each one individually. You can just enable/disable the parent panel...

Harbs

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Community Expert ,
Oct 15, 2010 Oct 15, 2010

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Thanks, guys; I used both of your suggestions! (Ever needed to draw gears? There is an Illustrator script for it now -- I don't think it would be useful as an ID script)

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Engaged ,
Oct 15, 2010 Oct 15, 2010

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Thanks, Peter, for the PDF -- I'll get there eventually!

And thanks, Jongware, for the script. Beautiful, beautiful cogs! BTW, for maximum "joy of mesh" I find myself widening the "valleys" between the teeth to match the width of the "plateaux":

Screen shot 2010-10-15 at 10.31.00.png

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Community Expert ,
Oct 15, 2010 Oct 15, 2010

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(Veering Off-Topic -- sorry, Peter!)

Jeremy, can you put some numbers to that? Technical documentation on how to actually create gears is a bit hard to find, so I wrote the script to create "mirrored" hills and valleys with the exact same width. Theoretically, if you would draw them as straight lines, they'd match up perfectly. In practice, however, it seems to need a bit of 'pushing'. I don't think the script is accurate enough to design clockwork with -- but I'd sure like it to be!

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Community Expert ,
Oct 15, 2010 Oct 15, 2010

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(We might as well continue this discussion in the Illustrator forum: [CS4/JS] Gear up! A gear drawing script -- to keep it "On topic".)

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Engaged ,
Oct 16, 2010 Oct 16, 2010

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[Jongware] wrote:

Jeremy, can you put some numbers to that?

Alas no... not yet, but I'm thinking about it. I'm trying to write something for InDesign that (probably) follows an entirely different method from your script, and whose results will be much more modest (at first, I'm just going for a simplistic "fortification line"). I thought if I had something of my own that works in InDesign, I might be able to work my (beginner's) way into Illustrator's object model, something I am wholly unacquainted with so far. That's why I'm replying here rather than in the Illustrator Scripting forum.

Thanks again!

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Oct 14, 2010 Oct 14, 2010

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Awesome!

I have been struggling with the lack of informative examples on this subject!

Like your previous works, it is very simple to understand yet complex enough to assist the more accomplished scripters.

I did find a minor glich on page 22:

The hyperlink: "Gabe Harbs's script" points to this url: "http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/sidenotes.html"

I do not know if this is the intended target.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 14, 2010 Oct 14, 2010

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> I do not know if this is the intended target.

Certainly not! Thanks for pointing that out.

Peter

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Participant ,
Oct 19, 2010 Oct 19, 2010

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Hi,

i'm very new with scriptui, i tried the example in the PDF but end up having a blank dialog...

result:

blankdialog.jpg

code here

var myWindow = new Window("dialog");
var myMessage = myWindow.add("statictext");
myMessage = "Hello world";
myWindow.show();

pls advice..

Thank you so much...

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