Leave the dialog box change the text display/display

I have a dialog box that is created with some text objects attached to its buttons. The user can make choices for each one, press OK, and asked of their choice. What I would like is for the buttons to the user in the text, so that they can see it in the context as they decide (that's the only reason why they are buttons; otherwise, they would be static text). I know how to handle this with a palette, but I wonder if there is a way to do it with a dialog box. With the help of a palette for all this seems unfair; I really don't want users to be able to make changes to the document, while the palette is open, and I don't want to change anything in the document until the user clicks OK. It is a dialogue with a palette as oddity, really.

The problem is that. showText() and setting the activePage throw them the error "Cannot process the request because a modal dialog box or the alert is active." I tried to adjust the dialog box to .the = false or .visible = false, but it has no effect. Is it just impossible? This feature, change the view but not the content, seems to live in a grey zone between the way in which the work of dialog boxes and palettes of way work, so I don't know if I'm just a useless way. Any idea would be appreciated.

Here's a code example to illustrate what I'm doing:

#target indesign


main();


function main(){
    if (app.documents.length == 0){createTestDoc();}
    runDialog();
}


function createTestDoc(){
    //create a test document
    var myDocPre = app.documentPresets.add({name: "testPre", createPrimaryTextFrame: true, pagesPerDocument: 5});
    var myDoc = app.documents.add(true, myDocPre);
    var myPSty = myDoc.paragraphStyles.add({name: "newPageSty", startParagraph: StartParagraph.NEXT_PAGE});
    var myCSty = myDoc.characterStyles.add({name: "CSty", underline: true});


    myDoc.textFrames[0].contents = "1\r2\r3\r4\r5";
    myDoc.textFrames[0].texts.everyItem().appliedParagraphStyle = myPSty;


    app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
    app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = "^9";
    app.changeTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myCSty;
    myDoc.changeText();


    myDocPre.remove();
}


function runDialog(){
    //find text with a particular character style and send that text to my dialog creation function.
    var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
    var myCSty = myDoc.characterStyles.itemByName("CSty");
    if (myCSty.isValid){
        app.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
        app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = myCSty;
        var myResults = myDoc.findText();
        myDialog(myResults);
    }
}


function myDialog(textRngs){
    //create the dialog.
    var myWin = new Window("dialog", "Test Dialog", undefined);
    var mainGroup = myWin.add("group");
    mainGroup.orientation = "column";
    //each text range gets a row.
    for (var i = 0; i < textRngs.length; i++){
        var myTextRng = textRngs[i];
        var myRow = mainGroup.add("group");
        myRow.orientation = "row";
        var myBut = myRow.add("button", undefined, myTextRng.contents);
        //attaches the text object to the button.
        myBut.targetObject = myTextRng;
        //does nothing - just a reminder that the actual dialog will do something at the end based on the info entered.
        myRow.add("editText");
        
        myBut.onClick = function(){
            //this is what I do when I want this functionality within a palette. Selects the text so that it can be seen in context.
            if (!(this.targetObject.hasOwnProperty("select") && this.targetObject.hasOwnProperty("showText"))) {}
            else{
                this.targetObject.showText();
                this.targetObject.select();
                
                //OR
                //tried this as an alternative, but setting myWin.visible does nothing.
                //myWin.visible = false;
                //myDoc.layoutWindows[0].activePage = this.targetObject.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;
                //myWin.visible = true;
            }
        }        
    }
    var OKGrp = myWin.add("group");
    var OKBut = OKGrp.add("button", undefined, "OK");
    
    OKBut.onClick = function(){
        //do something
        myWin.close();
    }
    myWin.show();
}

You have no choice: If you want the script to interact with the text that you will need to use a palette.

P.

Tags: InDesign

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