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New to InDesign scripting — could use some direction.

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    • May 3, 2015 at 8:30 pm #75120
      Carlos Naldinho
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      I’ve been playing with scripting InDesign. I’ve gotten most of parts to work individually but having a lot of trouble getting them to work as a whole. I was hoping someone could give me some help.

      1) I would like to have a window that has elements that change. To start I’d like it to have a dropdownlist that has a numeric value and as that number is changed it changes the number of edittext inputs. Is this possible?

      2) I am running into an issue with an error “cannot handle request because a modal dialog or alert is active” when I try to open a file. How do I get around this? A test script where the inputs are just set work but when it is based on input from a window it fails.

      3) Is there any way to have a webpage control inDesign — either on localhost or actual hosting?

      It is really difficult to find documentation for scripting so any help would be really appreciated.

    • May 4, 2015 at 8:14 am #75143
      Anonymous
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      Hi Carlos,

      1) I would like to have a window that has elements that change…
      You should consider ScriptUI for standard scripts.

      2)…because a modal dialog or alert is active”…
      A modal dialog prevents any user interaction with the app so you have to close first your dialog or use a non modal window type.

      3) Is there any way to have a webpage control inDesign — either on localhost or actual hosting?
      Not in ExtendScript but accessible with the new HTML Extension SDK

      Good luck.

      Loic

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    • May 4, 2015 at 10:38 am #75152
      Carlos Naldinho
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      Thank you. I trying to use ScriptUI but the documentation is very lacking. Found Peter Kahrel’s PDF this morning and this hopefully will help.

      With respect to #2 that is what I figured but I have .close for both dialogs I use. I’d prefer to keep the window open and allow the user to make changes and manipulate the document further but for version 1 I am ok with closing them.

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