3 Replies Latest reply: Apr 23, 2011 1:42 PM by Roy Marshall

[JS][CS5] Running a script from Configurator

Roy Marshall Apr 23, 2011 5:17 AM

I have been enjoying packaging some of my recent scripts in a Configurator plugin. This has been working fine, until now.

The script I have written steps through a csv file, placing a graphic on a page, and putting some text in a text frame. The script then exports to a PDF and saves as an InDesign file of a name from from the row in the csv file.

This works fine when executing from the ESTK, and if I run from the scripts panel as a script, or a compiled binary. If I save as binary and add a script file button in a configurator panel, then the script stops at about 170 lines (there are 220 lines in the CSV)

There is no error, and if I run the remaining lines separately afterwards they run ok. It looks like there is an additional overhead from running the script from a custom plugin. Does that sound right?

The complete script, processing all the lines in the CSV file takes about 5mins to run, so is quite busy, but I am monitoring the Macs performance, and there is no memory running away as far as I can see.

Any ideas on this would be great, or it would be interesting to see if anyone else has seen this same effect.

Cheers

Roy

1. Re: [JS][CS5] Running a script from Configurator

Roy Marshall Apr 23, 2011 5:52 AM (in response to Roy Marshall)

It does look like Configurator is failing me. The same binary called from an Applescript application I threw together in XCode runs to the end.
I know I need to bite the bullet and look into the CSSDK for making extensions, but is scares me!
Are there any samples I can pull apart? All I want the panel to do is trigger one or more script, nothing more.

Thanks in anticipation...

Roy
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2. Re: [JS][CS5] Running a script from Configurator

John Hawkinson Apr 23, 2011 8:07 AM (in response to Roy Marshall)

Have you tried wrapping your script in a try / catch block to make sure you aren't just triggering an exception that is getting lost along the way?
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3. Re: [JS][CS5] Running a script from Configurator

Roy Marshall Apr 23, 2011 1:42 PM (in response to John Hawkinson)

Yeah. Done that already. Got the catch set to alert(e) but has no
effect. Thanks for the response though.

Roy
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