Testing escripts with menus

[K.Daube]

Hello friends, I'm back to my project.

After installing "everything needed" on a new laptop I can now run ESTK as intended and hence want to use breakpoints etc.
But my breakpoints do'nt halt the script:

• In the script I have defined a breakpoint in a function some levels down
• FM is open with a document the script will work on.
• I start the script in ESTK. It creates a menu and then stops (OK)
• Selecting the appropriate menu item, the script runs
• A message appears. it is somewhere prior to the breakpoint.
• Another message appears - this is way after the breakpoint.
• So the script did not stop at the breakpoint!

How can I run the script from the menu to the breakpoint and then tip-toe through the script?

I have not found any hint in the JavaScript Tools Guide.

[Klaus Göbel]

Hi Klaus,

let me guess:

- Your new windows is running windows 8.1 ?

- you are using include-files? (where your breakpoints are placed?)

That's what happened to me.

You have to select for every single include-file FrameMaker and not ExtendScript Toolkit. On Windows 7 I didn't have to do that.

You can try to force that, by starting the script with F10/F11. That SOMETIMES works for me.

On Windows 8.1 ESTK also ignors #target framemaker.

rgds

Klaus

[K.Daube · Accepted solution]

Thanks Klaus, for thinking...

In the evening with some spacial and timely distance to the computer I had this idea:

• Insert the call of the (otherwise menu invoked) function directly before the menu set up (DefineMenus();)
• Place the breakpoint
• Run the script

After commenting out messages (which in my case try to create a window - which was not accepted) the script halted at the breakpoint.

And now the solution for the real problems are waiting...