[CS3/4] activeBook does not point to "active Book.

It's me badly understand something, or is the property of "activeBook" broken?

Discovered the hard way today as 'app.activeBook' is * not * point on the, uh, book 'active'. Or maybe I don't understand what makes one active... Remember, books come in a palette, and while you can have one in the front and the other in the back (which I * think *, had to do one visible 'active' book), you can also drag a file book out of it and put somewhere else on your desktop. Now that one is active? Is the answer to a simple ' one ID tells you is active, through ownership of the Application "activeBook"? Nope. This does not work at all.

In InDesign CS3 (Windows - in the case where it makes a difference), app.activeBook always reports the alphabetically first , of all your open books. Do not think to check on CS4/Windows at work, but my CS4/Mac home it does exactly the opposite: it always reports the alphabetically last one!

Steps to recreate:

1. write a Javascript script that simply reports the name of the book of assets:

Alert (app.activeBook.name)

2. create a new file book 'A Book '. It will open up a range of books, and 'A Book' is the only element in there. The who-am-i script tells you 'Book A.indb'.

3. now, create a second file of book "Book B". It will appear in the Panel of books and be active - the book visible. Of course, the who-am-i now tells you 'book B.indb.

4. to make it work? N ° select "Book A" in Control Panel. The script always considers that "Book B" is active.

5. slide one of the books from his palette on your workspace - now, you do not see what we * is * active. The script ensures that it is always "Book B" and no amount of click, select, or otherwise manipulate each palette will change your mind.

I think that 'activeBook' is a function of bad enough thought - after all, if you have two panels, and both have the Add document button and a menu, which can be considered as "active"?

However, the only time where you - Yes, you! John Q. User! -would be sure to be able to tell who is active, is when they are both in the same palette, one in front and one in the back. But the script proves that wrong.

Maybe Adobe uses another definition of the word 'active', for books only? As far as I know, it works as expected for two other activeWindow and activeDocument properties...

What you describe here is not a script bug, but rather a bug in the application InDesign, I think I made a few months back. The issue arose in a plug-in of C++ where it became clear that InDesign cannot know what book is active.

The bug is that clicking on the small room as a book Panel tab does not trigger the kSetCurrentActiveBookCmdBoss command notifying InDesign as the book has been changed. In order to trigger the command, it is necessary to click on the main menu of steering wheel Panel, or it is.

Because by clicking on the drop-book active front this bug rarely shows up, except of course when you write a script.

File a bug report, and maybe they'll solve this one of many other bugs of book.

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