[JS CS3] Making the #includepath work

I'm guessing, but don't worry -- it's an educated guess!

Lines starting with '#' are not really part of Javascript-the-language, so you cannot use Javascript command syntax in them. Concatenating two strings this way is Javascript syntax, as is looking up a string value from a variable.

Since this line doesn't get parsed and evaluated, everything inside the "quotes" is treated as being the path name, and the path name

myPath+'/FormatResources/'

is not found on your system.

[Edit] I forgot to add a solution. Since the script will (presumably) be run from the Scripts panel, you can use this variable

app.activeScript.fullName

to get the effective path of the script that's running. You can tack on "FormatResources" to get to your data.

Tom,

You can add one or more paths after the #include statement separating them by the semicolon (;)

Try this:

#includepath "~/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 5.0/Scripts/Scripts Panel;~/Application Data/Adobe/InDesign/Version 5.0/Scripts/Scripts Panel"
#include "_firstScript.jsxinc"

Kasyan

If I'm not mistaken, "#include" is relative to Folder.current which by default is the folder of the active script...

Harbs

I was leafing through the InDesign and xml technical reference and remembered another way to get the glue code:

// Locate and run the glue code.jsx file
var myFilePath = app.filePath + "/Scripts/xml rules/glue code.jsx";
if(File(myFilePath).exists == false){
     myFilePath = File.openDialog("Locate the file: glue code.jsx");
}
if(myFilePath != null){
     var myFile = File(myFilePath);
     app.doScript(myFile);
     main();
}

function main() {
     // do something here
}