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Including javascript dependencies issues in EB2.1

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:28:19 GMT

Hi all,

I have an issue with an extension. I am calling a jsx file from an extension*. I do that for a long time ago woithout issues. I now tried to include "jsinc" files in my main jsx file. I set an include path related to a url of mine ( "/Users/… ). I thought EB would del with that and do its own cooking but fact is, it doesn't. When compiled, extension works fine at my place but doesn't in different computers than mine. I suspect the absolute url is the cause of my troubles. But using relative urls don't seem to work neither.

What is the proper way to achieve an inclusion of external js files ?

TIA,

Loic

PS:

Here is my pattern :

Using a class declaration :

[ Embed (source="Javascript/JSXAPI.jsx" , mimeType=  "application/octet-stream" )]

and then in my jsxfile :

#includepath '/Users/sunsikim/Documents/Scripting/Extensions/ExtensionV2/src/Javascript/'

#include 'DateUtilities.jsinc';

#include 'Utils.jsinc';

#include 'PrefsUtils.jsinc';

//my code…

*using : http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Communicating_between_JavaScript_and_the_Creative-17383.ht ml

Run applescripts from AIR

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:21:51 GMT

Hi all,

I am using NativeProcess to have some applescrit ran in the background. So far what I could achieved is to run applescript like this :

1) Set osascript as the nativeProcess executable

2) supply -e & "tell ..." as arguments

The applescript runs fine.

However, teh script I intend to run can be quite long. So I was more thinking about running osascript with a reference to the applescript file itself. So I put my applescript snippet ithin my src folder and try to pass it as the osascript command argument. It doesn't work not really surprisingly but fact is I don't see how to solve that.

Do I have to copy my embedded applescript file to the local system and then call this specific instance ? Or should I decompose my script as a big array of lines and feed them to the osascript arguments (-e, line 1, -e, line 2 ...?). Second solution seems exhausting.

So what is the way to call my applescript script ? I wish to keep a simple air app and not a bunch of separate files.

Thanks for your help !

Loic

[JS CS3/4] ScriptUI How to color a button ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:01:26 GMT

Is it a way to get a colored button in the ScriptUI DOM ?

I tried

dlg.button1.graphics.backgroundColor = dlg.button1.graphics.newBrush(dlg.button1.graphics.BrushType.SOLID_COLOR,[0.7,0.7,0.7],1);

But although the dialog is drawn, the button is not styled in best case, not visible in the worst case.

Is that possible to get a colored button ?

Hope so.

Do you have any tip ?

TIA

Loic

Call c++ with JSX

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:57:30 GMT

Hi all,

I was advised that I could call c++ libraries if I wanted to use some command that DOM didn't offer. I wanted to give it a try with the "select all" command but I never figured it out.

I found the .h file that seems to include the "select all" function but I have no clue on how to call it from JSX, does someone has an idea on how to do that ?

Thanks in advance for any help on that topic.

Loic

ScriptUI Layout issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:26:30 GMT

Hi all,

Our old friend ScriptUI is driving me nuts with its LayoutManager…Maybe you will have some thoughts about it.

Given a group which alignChildren property is set to "["fill","fill"]; This group is actually hosting several children including a button. As it, th childrn ar smoothly resizd to take all the space available :

However, the button is HUGE which is normal at this stage. Now I want to reduce it to a "normal" size. So I am setting the minimumSize and maximumSize property of the button to 45 pixels wide. I would expect that teh button is reduced and the other components expanded regardingly. But it's not what happens. Indeed, the button is well resized but the children no longer takes all space available.

I am a bit confused here. Anyone can see what's going on ? I am joining a sample script anyone can try : http://dl.free.fr/fJTkudDzk

Just un/comment this line to switch between those two states :

browseGlobalSrcBtn.maximumSize.width = browseGlobalSrcBtn.minimumSize.width = 45;

Thanks in advance for any hint,

Loic

Licence in France

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:56:34 GMT

Hi guys,

I used to play with Extension Builder 2.0 prerelease version (extbuilder-prerelease-2.0.0.201111081134) for a loooong time without problem. But since last Mac OS update, EB is claiming "Trial has expired". I was used to get that message when my internet connection was down. But now, it appears even with a live connection. I uninstalled and re installed FB/EB but without luck.

I wanted to buy a licence to get fully functional EB 2.1 but it seems I can't order it from France. When I browse Adobe.fr to get EB2.1, I am sent to Adobe canadian website. And when I want to checkout, I get message from Adobe that my adobe account is set in another country and so the order cannot be proceeded.

So question is :

How can I order EB2.1 from france ?

Best,

Loic

Build a SWC with CS AS3 wrappers

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:18:00 GMT

Hi,

For most of my projects, I am using a link to some sources paths on my filesystem. I need now to share some extension sources, and I wish I could compile my classes to swc in order to avoid distributing all my libraries. However when I try to create generate a SWC file, I get an error mostly related to all my CS AS3 wrappers.

has anyone ever built a swc file from CS specific AS3 classes (I mean with references to CS objects, ex: doc:Document ) ? What is the correct approach ?

Thanks in advance,

Loic

Unable to install InDesign CS6 Extension : IDHost.InDesignPlugin:Resources could not be created…

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:26:06 GMT

Hi all,

I packaged an Extension thanks to Adobe Extension Builder 2.1. The extension targets InDesign CS5 to CC.

While trying to install the extension through ExtensionManager CS6, I get this alert and extension won't be installed

Basically meaning "IDHost.InDesignPlugin:Resources folder could not be created"

Any idea how to solve this issue ?

Thanks in advance,

Best,

Loic

Big performance issue while removing tabs by indents

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:08:43 GMT

Hi guys,

I am having an issue with an algorytm of mine. Although, it works as expected, it can takes up to 6 hours to execute on certain files.

Here is the thing. I need to defined areas where there are "dotted blanks"

Those dots can have myriad of constructions but it's not the debate here. But among all the possibilities one may be a succession of tabs like in the following snapshot. So some tabs may interest me, others don't. In order to ease my identification process, I wanted to remove useless tabs by indents and keep only useful ones. I call useless tabs the one that are not "dotted" and located either on the beginning of the sentence or in the end.

Exemple:

What I need to get

So in my case :

TAB TAB(dotted) TAB RETURN

The first tab and the last one are no interest to me, so I replace theme by indents :

INDENT TAB(dotted) INDENT RETURN

As I sad this process works as expected but it can take several hours to execute on certain files. So what I would like to know is :

Am I doings things wrong ( bad algorithm construction ) ?
Is this time uncompressible ?
Do you see another approach ?

Here is the problematic method :

replaceFirstAndEndTabByIndent:function(doc)
                    {

// IDUtils.findChangeGrep(doc,{findWhat:"^\\t+"} => return tabs;

                              var firstTabs = IDUtils.findChangeGrep(doc,{findWhat:"^\\t+"},undefined,false);
                              var tabs, tab, exit = false, leftShift = 0, rightShift = 0, p, ptf,
                              paras = [], tabsToRemove = [], rem, tss, ts, xMax;

                                    //looping through beginning tabs
                                    //if not dotted, increment indentation value then finally apply to paragraph
                              while ( tabs = firstTabs.pop() )
                              {
                                        leftShift = rightShift = 0;

                                        p = tabs.paragraphs[0];
                                       
                                                // if paragraph has bullet or may be looking so, we ignore it
                                        if ( AppLib.paragraphContainsBullet ( p ) ) continue;


                                        ptf = p.parentTextFrames[0];

                                        tabs = tabs.characters.everyItem().getElements();

                                        while ( tab = tabs.shift() )
                                        {
                                                  if ( !this.analyzeItem(tab) )
                                                  {
                                                            leftShift+=Math.abs( tab.endHorizontalOffset-tab.horizontalOffset);

                                                            tabsToRemove.push ( tab );

                                                            if ( tabs.length ==0 ) paras.push ( {p:p, leftIndent:leftShift, ptf:ptf} );
                                                  }
                                                  else
                                                  {
                                                            tabs.unshift ( tab );
                                                            paras.push ( {p:p, leftIndent:leftShift, ptf:ptf} );
                                                            break;
                                                  }
                                        }

                                                 //replace all final non dotted tabs by a matching indentation
                                        while ( tab = tabs.pop() )
                                        {
                                                  if ( !this.analyzeItem(tab) )
                                                  {
                                                            rightShift+=Math.abs( tab.endHorizontalOffset-tab.horizontalOffset);

                                                            tabsToRemove.push ( tab );

                                                            if ( tabs.length ==0 ) paras.push ( {p:p, rightIndent:rightShift, ptf:ptf} );
                                                  }
                                                  else
                                                  {
                                                            var maxSpace = Math.abs ( p.parentTextFrames[0].visibleBounds[3]-tab.endHorizontalOffset );
                                                            rightShift = rightShift > maxSpace ? maxSpace : rightShift;
                                                            paras.push ( {p:p, rightIndent:rightShift, ptf:ptf} );
                                                            break;
                                                  }
                                        }
                              }

                              tabsToRemove  = tabsToRemove.reverse();

                                //we now apply indentations as computed
                              while ( p =  paras.pop() )
                              {
                                        try
                                        {
                                                  if ( !p.p.isValid ) continue;
                                                  if ( p.leftIndent ) p.p.leftIndent += p.leftIndent;

                                                  if ( p.rightIndent )
                                                  {
                                                            p.p.rightIndent += p.rightIndent;

                                                  }
                                                  //*
                                                  tss = p.p.tabStops.everyItem().getElements();
                                                  if ( p.p.parent instanceof Cell )
                                                  {

                                                  }
                                                  else
                                                  {
                                                            xMax = Math.abs ( p.ptf.visibleBounds[3] - p.ptf.visibleBounds[1] ) -p.p.rightIndent;

                                                            while ( ts = tss.pop() )
                                                            {
                                                                      if ( ts.position > xMax )
                                                                      {
                                                                                ts.position = xMax;
                                                                      }
                                                                      else
                                                                      {
                                                                                break;
                                                                      }
                                                            }
                                                  }
                                                  //*/
                                        }
                                        catch(e)
                                        {
                                        }
                              }
                                //Now removing undesired tabs
                              while ( rem = tabsToRemove.pop() )
                              {
                                        rem.remove();
                              }
                    },

It does work with reasonable times with certain files (10/15secs at max) but for certains I recorded times and it took almost 6 hours :\

Any ideas will be become

TIA

Best,

Loic

ScriptUI Custom Events

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:01:11 GMT

Hi all,

Is there any chance I can propagate custom events in ScriptUI ? I tried this sample in ESTK and it works fine. However I tried to run it in several CS apps and all my attempts raised errors. My intenttion is to create custom components that would throw events listened by the parent window. Am I asking too much ?

function test()
{

          var w = new Window('dialog');
          var btn = w.add('button');

          w.addEventListener ('custom', tata);

          btn.onClick = function()
          {
                    w.close()
                    var e = new UIEvent('custom', true, true, w, null);
                    e.data= {test:"hello"};
                    w.dispatchEvent(e)
          }


          function tata(e)
          {
                    alert(e.data.test);
          }
          w.show();
}


test();

Thanks for any hint/advice,

Loic

Alert & long alertLabel Issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:01:10 GMT

Hi,

I can't get to correctly display a text within an Alert component. I tried the TitleWindow component too but it still doesn't solve my issue. If my alert string is long, the fitting isn't ok.

In this example, I set a static big height and it's "ok".

But if I let the component to draw itself, this is what I get :

I tried to override measure and updateDisplayList based on text dimensions but without luck.

Any advice ?

TIA.

Loic

Extension update issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:52:17 GMT

Hi all,

I am working on some extension project. The client coudl install and use multiple former versions without issues. But the last update produces a big issue. While the swf seems to be loaded, the main view isn't displayed.

What is displayed at client's office

What I have and what should be :

I tried to uninstall and do deep cleanup ( CSxServiceManager/Extensions ) but yet still no luck.

Is there any config file I need also to remove/edit ?

FWIW, I think my trouble comes from teh fact I had a trust certificate that was not renewed. And now I use a non trust certificate and maybe something mess things up in the update process ?

TIA,

Loic

ScriptUI : edittext live modifications problem

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:27 GMT

Hi,

I set a scriptUI interface.

I have two buttons :

- one has to add a carriage return on the edittext field

- one has to add tab.

I am using textselection property of the edittext object.

On Mac it works very fine.

On Windows, it just go crazy. Sometimes, it just ignores the click, other times, it adds the element unexpectingly.

ie tab or carriage return are placed everywhere but where I want it.

What do I do wrong ?

TIA Loic

currentStateInfo.isVisible always return false !?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:24:35 GMT

Hi all,

It seems that this property is always set to false whatever the extension is visible or not. Do I misuse it ?

SInterface.getInstance().currentStateInfo.isVisible //remains false

Best to all

Loic

Question about Setting hybrid extension addons

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:14:26 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to load a joboptions for a project. I tried to use the Hybrid extension panel and more specifically the "system" shortcuts. I used $userdatafolder which I tried to complete with "/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/". However I couldn't get it to work. I found another way but I remain curious if this kind of cooking is possible ?

Any experience someone ?

Best,

Loic

Attach as not working anymore…

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:37:07 GMT

Hi guys,

I am not sure what I dit specific but I cannot use "Attach as" anymore. EB compiles until I get "Cannot connect to Flash Player debugguer".

I have hot projects and I hope I can fix that as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Loic

InDesign update vs Maximum Version issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:02:59 GMT

Hi all,

Just to share my recent experience. I have built an extension setting InDesign CS6 as maximum version. Then Manifest is set to allow extensions for range [ 7.0 , 8.0 ]

Problem is a recent update went beyond this scope and my extension wasn't loaded within InDesign any longer. I tried not to set a maximum version but then the manifest sepecifies this range [ 7.0, -1 ] which leads to uninstallable extension.

Finally, the only way to get it working was to manually trick the manifest range with [ 7.0, 9.0 ] and run the ucf.jar utility to package the file.

Shouldn't min/max version be set with integers only ?

Best,

Loic

InDesign Extensions menu doesn't show up after inDesign update

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:08:53 GMT

Hi all,

First of all, not sure to reach the perfect spot here but have no clue on a better place, so feel free to point me towards the good forum if needed.

I have made a InDesign CS6 Extension which worked fined at some client's place. They updated InDesign and since then the extension menu no longer appears within InDesign. The menu itself is not hidden in the menus preferences and yet it's not here.

Does anyone have ever experienced this ? Any workaround ?

Thanks in advance for any hint,

Loic

Cursor issue, bug ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:15:44 GMT

Hi guys,

I tried to mimick a handle button similar to the one you can find in the pages palette within InDesign. I was almost ok when I noticed a weird issue.

When I call setCursor on mouseOver, the cursor is well replaced by my own image. BUT it only remains for a second or so a,d then the native cursor ( black arrow ) comes back and we have two cursors displayed. On a standalone AIR app, the cursor behaves just fine. But in CS apps, it looks like either the app or the OS overrides the cursor at some time.

Any idea ?

TIA

Loic

CSV & Encoding issues

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:43:28 GMT

Hi Guys,

I am in trouble dealing with two CSV files. The first one will let me play with it as soon as I don't specify any encoding but the second one can't be read without UTF-8 specified.

On the other hand, if I specify UTF-8, then the first file displays weird characters. I guess it's related to the sotware that generated the CSV ( Excel vs open office ? ). Anyway I don' t have hand on exports.

I tried to figure out how to get the default encoding of the file but it doesn't seem possible.

Any hint ?

Loic

PS: Happy New Year 2013 to everybody.

app.selection throws error in doScript context

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:30:52 GMT

Hi guys,

I have a script working fine in straight mode. Once I put it in a doScript, it executes well once and then throws an error ( I also undo script in the meanwhile to start over). The issue seems to deal with a reference error ( object not valid ) while I try to reach the app.selection object.

Has anypne experienced such issues ?

TIA for any hints,

Best,

Loic

Is that a CS5 bug (app.findObjectPreferences.fillColor)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:43:19 GMT

Hi,

I wanted to go and make a findObject request through scripting. My intention is to find objects with "None" fill color.

So I wrote :

with(app.findObjectPreferences){

fillColor="None";

}

app.findObject() and that returns 0 occurences.

As I have "None" filled objects, I didn't understand why Indesign didn't find them and looked into the find object dialog box to see what is going on.

It appears that the specified color is not None but non specific color.

So I picked "None" in the UI and just request the name of that color via scripting

alert(app.findObjectPreferences.fillColor.name);

Obviously, it should return me "None" but it gave me "C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0"...

And indeed if I give :

with(app.findObjectPreferences){

fillColor="C=0 M=0 Y=100 K=0";

}

The UI dialog displays "None".

Why Pure Yellow is None ?

Loic

Remove Extra Space into internal buttons of ToggleButtonBar ( mx )

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:18:25 GMT

Hi all,

I am stuck with some spacing issue. I use a toggle button bar and need buttons to be as tight as possible while displaying label without breaking it.

Eventually, the toggleButtonBar must appear as :

en fr de

Spacing between labels is quite what I expect to be in the final app. BUT if I dramaticcaly reduce button size, the label is cropped because buttons keep extra spacing around label. How can I reduce this space to 0 per say ?

I can't see any way to do it.

TIA

Loic

Xpath issue with operators ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:52:20 GMT

Hello,

I am facing an issue while trying to use operators in a ExtendScript Xpath Call.

var xml = <root>
<tag>
<time>05:55</time>
</tag>
</root>;

xml.xpath ( "//*[number(substring-before(time,':'))<6]" ); //OK

//Now let's try to use the * operator

xml.xpath ( "//*[number(substring-before(time,':'))*2<12]" );  //SYNTAX ERROR claiming a missing right paren.

If I test this expression with Oxygen & XPath 1.0, everything is fine. Are the use of operators a know issue ?

Do I miss something ?

TIA Loic

Issue to convert a jsx Array to a AS3 Array

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:47:18 GMT

Hi all,

I am calling a jsx code from within my extension to take advantage of the available xpath method in ExtendScript. I can then generate an array from the xpath result and send it back to the extension.

function jsXpath ( xmlString , xpathExpression )
{
          var res = XML ( xmlString ).xpath ( xpathExpression ), i = 0, n = res.length(), arr = [];
  
          for ( i = 0 ; i < n ; i++ )
          {
                    arr[ arr.length ]  = res[i];
          }
  
          return arr; 
}

My issue comes when I try to turn this jsx array into an AS3 array. EB then throws an error :

var arr:Array  = jsxInterface.jsXpath ( model.programmes.toXMLString() , xPathExpression ) //as Array;

Error #1034: Echec de la contrainte de type : conversion de flash.external::HostObject@2bfffe51 en Array impossible.

if I trace the result without coercion, I can see the expected result. I just can't turn it into a regular AS3 array

Any ideas ?

TIA Loic

Getting PieSeries RenderDirection to work in a Flex 3.6 project

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:50:10 GMT

Hi all,

I noticed Flex 4 enhanced mx.pieSeries to have a renderDirection style. I was wondering if I could re introduced this Flex4 mx component into my my 3.6 sdk in order to take advantage of the property ?

I loaded the library and saw the property accessible but compilation throws errors. Is it possible ? How ?

Best,

Loic

InDesign Server CS4 issue with baseline alignment

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:35:43 GMT

Hi all,

I need to turn baseline alignment off for every text frame. I used alignToBaseline = false until I learnt that this property isn't available in teh IDS CS4 DOM. I was adviced to use gridAlignment instead but it's CS5+ only.

So my question is how do we set baseline alignment off for textframes in InDesign Server CS4 ?

Thanks in advance,

Loic

Issue while trying to reset baseline alignment in IDS CS4

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:07:18 GMT

Hi,

First of all, sorry for having posted in the scripting section first, I looked for this place without luck and thought it had been removed or merged with the scripting forum.

Ok, in IDS CS4, it seems that the alignToBaseline property isn't accessible. However I do need to set the baseline alignment for my text frames to NONE.

Is there any trick ?

Thanks in advance,

Loic

BridgeTalk between Illustrator and InDesign issue

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:24:54 GMT

Hello,

I am facing a Bridgetalk issue between Illustrator and InDesign. Both scripts run well on their side. At some point I need to grabd some properties of the Illustrator File and use them within InDesign. So as I never could get onResult functions to work, I use a temporary file to store the properties. So I can check if Illustrator ended working and if so, read the properties then delete the file.

This process works fine most of the time but quite often, it fails. And I can't see any reason why.The Illustrator Script doesn't seem to fail ( no errors thrown in a try/catch statement) but the temp file is never created.

Are you aware of any leaks or timeout issues while playing with bridgeTalks ?

TIA,

Loic

Datagrid sorting issues with 1/0 items to consider

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:24:40 GMT

Hi all,

I have an issue I can't find a way to fix. I am using a datagrid which I pouplate through a XMListCollection based on some XML datas.

XML:

var prefs:XML = <files>
<file name="@toto" favourite="1"/>
<file name="@toto"favourite="0"/>
</files>;

XMLListCollection

var xlc:XMLListCollection = new XMLListCollection( new XMLList ( prefs.file) );

MXML

<mx:DataGrid id="filesList" width="100%" height="100%" dataProvider="{xlc}">
<mx:columns>
<mx:DataGridColumn width="25" dataField="@favourite"sortCompareFunction="favourite_sortCompareFunc"/>
</mx:columns>
</mx:DataGrid>

Sorting fucnction:

private function favourite_sortCompareFunc(itemA:Object, itemB:Object):int {
   
   
    var value1:Number = Number( itemA.@favourite );
    var value2:Number = Number( itemB.@favourite );
   
    if(value1 < value2){
         var n:Number = -1;
         return n;
    }
    else if(value1 > value2){
         return 1;
    }
    else{
         return 0;
    }
   
    return 1;
}

Once loaded, the datagrid appears in a "normal state":

But if I try to sort first column, it becomes messy

I think it might be related to the fact that the data to be sorted is only made of 0 & 1. But I can't imagine this kind of situations is not fixable.

Any hint ?

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Loic

ScriptUI stroking a field

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:29:47 GMT

Hi,

I need to red stroke fields. Inspite of the doc and this great thread : http://forums.adobe.com/message/4215908#4215908,

I can't get it working

field.onDraw = function()
{
          var gx = this.graphics,
           pen = this.graphics.newPen (this.graphics.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1, 0, 0,1], 5);
          gx.drawOSControl();
          gx.rectPath( this.location[0] , this.location[1], this.size.width, this.size.height);
          gx.strokePath(pen);
}

What am I doing wrong ?

Best,

Loic

How to get the color interpretation ( transparency/opacity)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:54:20 GMT

Hi all,

I am trying to translate colors that may be affected by opacity & transparency into a strong color.

Input colors may be RGB, CMYK and LAB.

Right now, I am :

1) duplicating source color (because Paper/Black can't be tweaked, I need to work on a copy)

2) Setting duplicated color space to CMYK

3) creating a dummy color in CMYK

4) affect CMYK values of the duplicated color by transparency and opacity

ie : source color is Black [0,0,0,100] at 50% opacity and 50% transparent ( frame effects) => [ 0*0.5*0.5 , 0*0.5*0.5 , 0*0.5*0.5 , 100*0.5*0.5 ] = > [0 , 0, 0, 25 ];

5) setting dummy color space to source color space

6) Do my computations based on dummyColor

6) remove duplicated color

7) remove dummy color

The process is working but deltas on teh colors are a serious issue. Not big deltas but enough to corrupt the trust on the color interpretation.

SO question is : Is there any way to get a correct interpretation of a color affected by opacity/transparency settings ?

Do you have any link towars an understandable paper about how lab/rgb and CMYK colors are affected by opacity/transparency ?

Thanks in advance,

best,

Loic

Use Bridge DOM from an AIR app…

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:30:12 GMT

Hi all,

A customer of mine wishes to have a widget to help their users deal with XMP metadata. However they don't want them to use bridge because the principe is to make the tasks as easy as possible.

But bridge has a convenient library to edit XMP so my ambition is to find a way to get access to Bridge DOM from outside.

Unfortunately, I can't see much workarounds. No command line, using #target bridge generates a prompt, applescript provides a do javascript" but only with strings and my first attemps scared me a bit ( working alternatively without reasons).

So question is, do you know if it's possible to run js script for bridge from outside BRIDGE ?

TIA Loic

Create character style from text object

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:45:44 GMT

Hi all,

I am starting from a global selection and for some reason I want to create a characterStyle based on first character. The straightforward approach would be to select the character object and create style. But I don't want to get an ugly flashing fx as finally I need to keep my global selection.

DOM doesn't seem to offer something like characterStyles.add(characters[0]) where style would inherit of all character properties, does it ?

Or do I have to write a function that lists every possible style property for the character and then apply to newly created style ?

TIA Loic

Setting zero width space as bullet character for paragraphStyle

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:49:37 GMT

Hello,

Maybe this one could go on in the general InDesign forum but as I am trying to achieve this by script, I thought I could get valuable inputs from you guys.

Do you think it's possible to set a zero width space as a bullet character for a paragraph style ?

If I try this to get character code, its failing :

app.selection[0].characters[0].contents .charCodeAt (0); //Error

Given that first and unique character is a zero width space. It works fine with a regular character. So it seems that as it is a special character, it doesn't have any code (except from enumeration) ?

I noticed unicode for zero width space is U+200B but I can't get to pass it as a value for the bulletChar.characterValue property.

Am I stuck in a deadend ?

best,

loic

ScriptUI and weird Object behaviour

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:24:34 GMT

Hi,

I am working on a galaxy of little helpers that all share a same scriptUI dialog script (include). I have included an option to add window components from the helper thanks to a function:

function ExtraUIItems(parentContainer){
     //Adding UI elements
     this.getItem = function(){
          return {
               choice:"a",
               style:"b"
          }
     }
}

so in the scriptUI general code, I check for a flag and add item if needed :

var extraItems = new ExtraUIItems(w);

and then when I need datas, I call the getItem function

extraItems.getItem();

Problem is :

extraItems.getItem().style //"b" => OK
extraItems.getItem().choice //undefined
//and 
extraItems.getItem().toSource() // {style:"b"} => no evidence of choice property

//If I mistype style on purpose, ask for toSource() again,  and rerun the script
extraItems.getItem().toSource() //{} => No properties at all

I thought about initialization but even restarting InDesign doesn't solve it .

My question is : WTH Am I doing wrong ?

TIA

Loic

[JS] Avoid several palettes instanciation

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:20:59 GMT

Hi all,

I feel so dumb asking for such a silly question but I really can't get this one to work. I have a simple dialog (a palette). Thing is that is user clicks several times, the script outputs many windows. I want to check for a former launched palette.

I did try everything such a global variable to edit onShow and onClose (isRunning = false), private variables.

Any hint ?

#targetengine 'demo'

var myDialog = (function(){
    var w = new Window('palette');
    return{
        show:function(){
            w.show();
        }
    }
})();

myDialog.show();

Option 1: Global variable

#targetengine 'demo'

var isRunning = false;

var myDialog = (function(){
    var w = new Window('palette');

     w.onShow = function(){ isRunning = true; }

     w.onClose = function(){ isRunning = false; }

    return{
        show:function(){
            if(!isRunning) { w.show(); }
        }
    }
})();

myDialog.show();

Option 2: private variable:

#targetengine 'demo'



var myDialog = (function(){
     var isRunning = false;
    var w = new Window('palette');

     w.onShow = function(){ isRunning = true; }

     w.onClose = function(){ isRunning = false; }

    return{
        show:function(){
            if(!isRunning) { w.show(); }
        }
    }
})();

myDialog.show();

I can't get it working so the palette isn't run if done already. I also tried to check for some dialog item existence like in this page but it's not helping : http://kelsocartography.com/scripts/scripts/nvkelso/registrationButtons.jsx

TIA for any tip. I am certain it's so obvious.

Loic

Indesign Script Folder ESTK vs CSSDK

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:04:42 GMT

Hello,

I have a thing I can't explain myself. Given the fact I want to grab scripts that are in the user scripts folder.

In ESTK :

var fo = Folder(app.scriptPreferences.scriptsFolder.fsName);
fo.getFiles();

This gives me the result I am expecting.

In Flex :

var app:Application = InDesign.app;
var scriptsFolder:File = File(app.scriptPreferences.scriptsFolder);
var scriptsFilesArray:Array = new Array();
for each(var file:File in scriptsFolder.getDirectoryListing()){
    scriptsFilesArray.push(file);
}

This returns scripts from the application preferences excluding every user scripts.

How the same call can produc two differents results regarding to the context of execution ?

Thanks a lot for your enlightment on this stuff.

Loic

Is it possible to add custom bullets to paragraph styles via scripting ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:29:17 GMT

According to the Model Object, it's not but I wanted to double check

bulletChar

Bullet

readonly

Bullet character.

I need to know if it's possible to take whatever character and turn it into a bullet character.

TIA

Loic

Error while moving xmlElements

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:07:37 GMT

Hi,

I am a bit lost. I have a process like this

var masterItem = mySourceXMLElement;
var copy = masterItem.duplicate();
var targetItem = myTargetXMLElement;
copy = copy.move(LocationOptions.AFTER, targetItem);

It works perfect except, of course, at the customer's office. It throws an error I am trying to translate in plain english by "You cannot do that operation with selected element".

For the info, I downgrade scriptversion from 7.5 to 6 as the script is for CS4. I also take care to unlock any objects and display any layer. So I can't imagine locking is the key.

Fact is the same file is treated like a charm here but not on customer machine. I can't explain myself what is wrong. And as a summum I even get a quantum effect where the result is both true and false.

I am logging the part where the user has issues and :

try{
     xmlElements.move()
     $.writeln("success");
}
catch(e){
     $.writeln("error");
}
outputs "success" and "error"

I new fresh points of views

Thanks in advnce,

Loic

[JS] Check for undo/redo source contents

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:42:46 GMT

Hi all,

I am a bit stuck so I come here in order to get your thoughts

Ok, I am trying to get a correct monitoring of undo/redo calls so I can check the source and the target of the undo/redo. Let's imagine the following character :

1. User types "A"

2. User selects "A" and type in "B" instead.

3. User undoes so "B" turns back to A"

4. User finally redoes so "A" turns back to "B"

There we could say that B is the source where A is the target. I need to check that when undoing B, it turns to a "A" and vice versa.

Basically I got some success when user is in this immediate scenario, adding beforeInvoke/afterInvoke eventListeners to the undo/redo menu actions.

So when user undoes/redoes I can read the character before it's replaced and after it's replaced and see it is what I am looking at.

The true problem comes when user undoes/redoes several times in a row. In this case, the beforeInvoke may catch a "C" character as source and not "B". This is because I am trying to compare two contents which may not be related to the same selection. So for example my comparison gives me A/A when indeed I have a B/A to consider.

So I come to the conclusion that beforeInvoke/afterInvoke isn't really reliable as a process. I have then looked at some "memory" property in the application that could have stored the character to be placed when undoing/redoing but fails. I tried the Event.AFTER_SELECTION_CHANGED eventListener but I have no way to reach the source contents before it was replaced.

Any idea ?

TIA,

Loic

[JS] Get all tables (really all) ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:53:06 GMT

Hi all,

I am trying to target every table in a document, even though inside a cell of a table.

I thought app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem() would have done it but it's obviously not exhaustive.

I could use a recursive function but before that I wish to check if there is a dom property that I am missing.

So question is : Is there a way to grab every single table object container thanks to javascript ?

TIA Loic

Get User Illustrator Serial Number

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:59:15 GMT

Hi all,

I am working on a serializing solution for my scripts and I would like to rely on the user Illustrator Serial Number for identification. My probleme is that I can't see how to grab this info by scripting. I saw that the UI allows access to the info in the system info menuAction of the help menu but I can't get access to that.

In InDesign there is a app.serialNumber command but unfortunately no similar stuff within Illustrator...

Do you have a hint on how to retrieve this information ?

TIA,

Loic

Simply open a file

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:28:39 GMT

Hi,

This is my first attempts to script IDS. I am stuck with the simpliest command: open a file.

app.open(File(myFilePath));

It returns an error.

<IDSP:RunScriptResponse><errorNumber>1</errorNumber><errorString>open</errorString><scriptResult></scriptResult></IDSP:RunScriptResponse>

I first developed on Indesign desktop and the script just works fine. I read the IDS scripting guide so I am aware of restrictions and I think I avoided them.

Is there anything to be aware of for opening files ?

Best,

Loic

[AS]: run background script

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:46:45 GMT

Hello,

I have done an applescript which works fine. However some of the actions related to the system (do shell script...) are taking a while to complete.

And as long as they are running, user can't keep on working.

I was wondering if I could separate what is related to indesign from what is not related to Indesign in order to give control back on indesign to the user while soem actions are still processing on the background ?

I have found a way to dissociate script thanks to load script command but it doesn't prevent Indesign to freeze until the external script completion.

Do you think it's possible ?

Loic

ScriptUI & flashplayer : swf limitations ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:55:05 GMT

Hi all,

I am playing with ScriptUI 's flashplayer object and can't load a swf file made by flex. Is there any known limitations ? SDKs ? Flash/AIR ?

Loic

Check if folder is writeable

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:58:30 GMT

Hi all,

I have an air app which runs fine. My only concern deals with soem folder I ask user to pick.

Some folders that I think are system protected lead my application to fail.

For example, any subfolder of the opt folder on my mac.

So I am searching without luck how to check if the selected folder is writeable or not ? Any insight ?

Thanks in advance,

Loic

Cannot load id_host_adapter.swc

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:28:51 GMT

I am getting this error this morning and can't fix it :

Design mode: Cannot load id_host_adapter.swc (reason: ERROR: Load Verify). It may require classes (such as Adobe AIR components) that are not supported by design mode. Check the Eclipse error log for more details.

I loaded the library for sure in the project (FB + CSAW/APEDelta/CSXS/ID_HOST). I just imported extension on other machine and I have this error.

The biggest concern is that all code layed on JS DOM Communication now stops working.

Any insight ?

TIA Loic

Indesign crashes on closing a non visible document

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:50:12 GMT

Hi guys,

Given a document "myDoc" opened with showing window set to false:

var doc = app.open(myDoc, false);

Doing the following crashes Indesign:

doc.close() or doc.close(SaveOptions.NO)

Any insights ? Is that a known issue ?

TIA

Loic

Resize Extension creationcomplete/init

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:19:12 GMT

Hi all,

I have a function to resize my extension. As I have different states (ans as stateManager seems buggy), I switch state and order resizing. Everything is fine except on extension loading. Whatever I try resizing on creation complete or initialization, none works.

The weirdest is that It seems like the resizing function is called but without any effect. On the contrary, the function works as expected later when switching from state to state.

I looked into CSSDK API but it seems that CSXSWindowedApplication inherits from WindowedApplication so creationcomplete and initialization events should be ok. I tried to played with statechange events within CSXSInterface but still no luck.

I can't figure out why a function works fine except on loading the extension. Is that a known issue ?

TIA Loic