ScriptUI Forums

andreas1974: Breakpoints in the ESTK?

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:32:55 -0700

andreas1974: I can answer my own question: You just have to start the script from InDesign first. Then you can close it, and debugging will work as normal from the ESTK.

andreas1974: Background color for edittext changes window colour

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:20:41 -0700

admin: Yes it's an error. It will be fixed in future versions.

andreas1974: Treeview events, and storing object keys in nodes (objects)

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:53:19 -0700

andreas1974: Window1.chapterTree.tvwTree.onExpand = function (item){ var strXML = getGroupsByParent(item.key); // Get the XML tree here, as a string, based on the ("user-defined") key property of the item clicked. // Make an XML object out of the string. var myXML = XML(strXML); for (var i=0; i < myXML.children().length(); i++){ // "node" creates an expandable node var aNode = item.add("node", myXML.chapter[i]); aNode.text = myXML.chapter[i].@chapter_name; aNode.key = myXML.chapter[i].@chapter_id; // ("item" instead of "node" creates a non expandable node (no plus-sign)) } } The fine thing with the code above is that the id of the node, the "chapter_id", can be stored as a generic key, and you can get hold of that key in the expand event, later on.

andreas1974: How do you get ScriptUI windows to stay open?

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:40:48 -0700

andreas1974: I found a splendid explanation on the Adobe InDesign forum: "If I am correct you must first execute the script from the scripts panel so the session for the targetengine is set. I ran into this problem when first trying to run the script from estk. But usually corrects itself once you run it first from scripts panel. 1. Open script in ESTK. (Make sure its linked to application). 2. From Scripts panel (in InDesign) execute script. 3. Try running script from ESTK 4. You should see the targetengine changes to session instead of main." This works. Sometimes breakpoints don't get hit, but a few tries... and they do... (still not sure what makes them work).

andreas1974: Debugging in the ESTK

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:58:14 -0700

andreas1974: Hi! Is there a good explanation how to get debugging to work along with ScriptUI, using the ExtendScript ToolKit? Sometimes debugging works fine, but on other times not at all. I suspect the targetengine might play some role in this? Sometimes, pressing F5, break-points don't seem to get hit, but the same code may very well be working when starting the program with F11... letting the window be declared while stepping over the lines and then pressing F5. Best regards, Andreas (I mistakenly put this question in the Rapid Script UI part of the forum, sorry, feel free to remove that, Steven!)

andreas1974: Great tool for building user interface from scratch

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:07:08 -0700

admin: Thanks for your compliments. You should be able to have immediate preview, even without F5.

Steven: New Features 1.1.0.8

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:04:42 -0700

admin: I must apologize. There is an error in the create events option for the window, where when true (the default) events are not created. It should be the opposite. For now set it to false, and events will be created. The option to turn it off, is to be used together with including file at the end of the script for your implemented events which will be used instead of the generated events. If I get a chance II will fix the error, though I am quite swamped.

andreas1974: MeasurementEditboxes missing?

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:00:07 -0700

admin: It may be possible with hack, but not built in to InDesign as you said.

andreas1974: CS5 support

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:39:59 -0700

andreas1974: I suggest adding support in Rapid ScriptUI for CS5 (and 5.5). Best regards, Andreas

dayglowdave: guides not offsetting properly

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:15:44 -0800

dayglowdave: Ah sorry bout that it is photoshop CS5