RtMouseText no longer loads after latest update

[akiva_atwood]

The following code has worked for the past 6 months -- but the 0.1 update seems to have broken it

var fileMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseText");

fileMenu.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

var fileMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseSpellSuggestions");

  fileMenu2.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

}

I get an error (two actually -- one for each menu) that neither installed.

Anyone else experience this? Any suggestions what to do?

TIA

[Laubender]

Hi TIA,

hm…

I have no problem with "$ID/RtMouseText".
For example: A startup script written by Dirk Becker that is adding the menu action for "$ID/Apply no break" to the context menu "$ID/RtMouseText" is still working with my CC 2018.1 on Mac OS X 10.11.6 without any problems.

What is defined in your variable menuAction ?

Regards,
Uwe

[akiva_atwood]

menuAction = app.scriptMenuActions.add(menuTitle);

and menuTitle is the text for the menu.

Is the script you mentioned available? I'd like to try it and see if it works...

[Laubender]

akiva_atwood  wrote

… Is the script you mentioned available? I'd like to try it and see if it works...

See the link with my answer #2.

Regards,
Uwe

[Laubender]

You could try Dirk's script:

menuitemNoBreak.jsx script for Adobe InDesign

Regards,
Uwe

[akiva_atwood]

Thanks. I'll give it a try

[Dirk Becker]

Note that the script reuses an existing hard-wired action.

A scriptMenuAction requires more code where things can go wrong, including a targetengine.

[akiva_atwood]

Here's the entire script:

#targetengine 'SSIsession';

var fTitle = "Add Style";

var selLength;

var theSel;

var fHandlersI = {

  'beforeDisplay' : function(event)

  {

  try{

  event.target.enabled = (app.documents.length>0);

  }

  catch(e){notify("RT003: \n"+e,2);}

        if(event.target.enabled){

            selLength=app.selection[0].characters.length;

            theSel=app.selection[0];

            }    

  },

  'onInvoke' : function(event)

  {

  try{

  app.doScript(addStyle, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "SmartStyleIt");

  }

  catch(e){notify("RT004: \n"+e,2);}

  }

  };

var fHandlersStyle = {

  'onInvoke' : function(event)

  {

          //alert(event.target.name);

          s=event.target.name;

          if(s.indexOf("pStyle")>0){

                ss=s.replace(" pStyle","");

                //alert(ss+"\r"+theSel.contents);

              theSel.appliedParagraphStyle=ss;

                }

        else{

            ss=s.replace(" cStyle","");

          // alert(ss+"\r"+theSel.contents);

                theSel.appliedCharacterStyle=ss;

            }

  }

  };

// THE MENU INSTALLER

// -----------------------------------------------

var fMenuInstaller = fMenuInstaller||

(function(menuTitle,menuHandlers)

{

var menuAction = app.scriptMenuActions.add(menuTitle);

var event;

for( event in menuHandlers )

  {

  menuAction.eventListeners.add(event,menuHandlers[event]);

  }

// 3. Create the menu item

try{

var fileMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseText");

fileMenu.menuSeparators.add(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

fileMenu.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

var fileMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseSpellSuggestions");

  fileMenu2.menuSeparators.add(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

  fileMenu2.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

}

catch(e){

  alert("failed to install RtMouseText");

  }

return true;

})(fTitle, fHandlersI);

function installMenuItem(menuTitle,menuHandlers)

{

var menuAction = app.scriptMenuActions.add(menuTitle);

var event;

for( event in menuHandlers )

  {

  menuAction.eventListeners.add(event,menuHandlers[event]);

  }

// 3. Create the menu item

try{

var fileMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseText");

fileMenu.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

var fileMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseSpellSuggestions");

  fileMenu2.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

}

catch(e){

  alert("failed to install RtMouseText");

  }

return true;

}

function doStyle(){

    alert("assigned");

    }

function addStyle(){

    styleName="";

    sel=app.selection[0];

    if(selLength==0){

        styleName=sel.appliedParagraphStyle.name+" pStyle";

        }

    else{

        styleName=sel.appliedCharacterStyle.name+" cStyle";

        }

    installMenuItem(styleName,fHandlersStyle);

    }

It's a start up script. I get the error message alert ("failed to install") whenever it starts up AND when I use the menu item -- which works despite the error message

This behaviour is new -- just since the last update. Before that it worked fine without the error messages.