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• • April 2, 2012 at 8:44 am #61931
    Rhiannon Miller

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    How do you create an InDesign dialog in Applescript? I've tried this:

    tell “Adobe InDesign CS5.5”

    set myDialog to make dialog with properties {name:”Simple Dialog”}

    end tell

    – a line taken from Adobe's InDesign CS5 Applescript Guide, but it doesn't seem to recognise 'dialog' as a noun. It tries to parse it as a variable and complains that it's not defined.

    What am I doing wrong?

  • April 10, 2012 at 3:10 am #61976
    mac grunt

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    G'day

    You're just missing the word 'application' in the first line :

    tell application “Adobe InDesign CS5.5”
    set myDialog to make dialog with properties {name:”Simple Dialog”}
    show myDialog
    end tell

    
    

    m.

  • April 10, 2012 at 3:45 am #61977
    Rhiannon Miller

    Member

    Thanks – you're right, I missed that.

    But it's still not working: I now get the error:

    error “Adobe InDesign CS5.5 got an error: Can’t make class dialog.” number -2710 from dialog to class

    Any idea what the problem is here? Does anyone have InDesign dialogs working successfully in Applescript?
  • April 13, 2012 at 7:22 am #61997
    mac grunt

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    Yep, I use dialogs all the time and this is the format which works up until CS4 at least.

    Only started using CS5 a couple of weeks ago — so I haven't had a chance to check with that version yet (sorry, but can't test that until Monday).

    The only suggestion I have immediately is to ensure all the double-quotes are 'straight' quotes (ie. maybe retype them to ensure they are in the right format).

    Also, check over at the Adobe Forums — there are some absolutely brilliant people over there who may well know exactly what that error message means.

    m.

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