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• • January 20, 2012 at 12:21 pm #61495
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Salve!

    Folks, I am at a complete loss with this problem.

    I have created a simple palette window, but when I run it, it steals all the keyboard control away from InDesign. I can’t type anything in InDesign! Other programs work fine. If I close the palette window, I can type again in InDesign as before.

    Here is my simple palette script:

    #targetengine testpalette
    var PaletteWindow = new Window(‘palette’, “Test”);
    PaletteWindow.show();

    Please advise me! I have made some beautiful palette scripts, but can’t use them! Am I doing something wrong?

  • January 21, 2012 at 8:00 am #61499
    Anonymous

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    Hello? Is there anyone out there?

  • February 17, 2012 at 9:06 am #61649
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I think ALL panels do that in InDesign, don't they? If you open a panel, it puts the focus there. What happens if you press Escape or Enter? Does it put the focus back on the page?

  • February 19, 2012 at 10:27 pm #61659
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks for answering, Mr. Blatner!

    Well, when I open the panel, and then click back into InDesign, I can still work with everything using the mouse. But if I try to type, I can't. The panels steal up the keyboard. If I click away to another program and then click back to InDesign, the palettes aren't active, and so I can type again.

    It seems like once I activate a script UI panel that I can't get it to un-activate. No, enter or escape don't work. These are pallettes and not dialogs, so they *should* be able to remain on the screen without having to be closed out.

  • February 21, 2012 at 3:15 pm #61668
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hello? ello… llo… o…

  • April 7, 2012 at 6:13 pm #61966
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I am *still* having this problem!

    It seems that as long as a script palette is open, I cannot type into InDesign. I even tried without the target.

    var PaletteWindow = new Window(‘palette’, “Test”);
    PaletteWindow.show();

  • April 7, 2012 at 6:28 pm #61967
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hello! I found this post, with a workaround:

    https://forums.adobe.com/thread…..p;tstart=0

    It doesn't solve the issue, however.

    I have also posted here:

    https://stackoverflow.com/quest…..0#10059680

  • April 7, 2012 at 6:39 pm #61968
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Okay, folks, I think I solved the issue. I posted the answer also on Stack Overflow. Basically, if you add app.activate(); to the buttons on the palette, and also add app.activate(); just after you show the palette, then your palette will give focus to InDesign on its startup, and then you can push buttons on the palette as you will.

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