InDesign and applescript

[mikeAtJB]

I've written an applescript to count the words in a document from a list of documents. Sometimes, a window opens showing there are fonts missing and sometimes it asks if I want to link missing art. I don't care about these windows and would like to close them automatically if they appear. Is there a command to close these? Otherwise, the script doesn't run automatically because of the open windows. I have to close them before it opens the next file.

Or even a command to ignore warning messages.

I appreciate any help I can get.

[TᴀW · Accepted solution]

I'm a Javascript man myself, so you'll have to translate this to Applescript, but the command you're looking for is:

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;

Just make sure to set this back to:

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;

when the script finishes!

HTH,

Ariel

[Steve Werner]

Moving discussion to InDesign Scripting forum

[mikeAtJB]

Thanks. I'll see if I can figure it out from your commands. I was originally going to write it in Javascript but I had to run Excel and InDesign together.

[mikeAtJB]

Thanks. The command was

set user interaction level of script preferences to never interact

[Loic.Aigon]

Stick to js as much as you can. When you need to call excel with applescript, use doScript and only for that