I was following the InDesign scripting guide and got a script for Printing to Postscript running. The only thing is, when you press “Cancel”, the script proceeds to complete the task rather than ending the script.
I’ve searched through MacScripter BBS and found some solutions, however, they use “display dialog” rather than “make dialog”. The InDesign Scripting Guide isn’t much help either. The code below is an excerpt from my script and I’m kind of baffled. I keep getting a “Can’t get button returned of dialog…” I suspect there’s something simple and obvious that I’m overlooking since I’m fairly new to Applescript. If someone can offer some help, I’d really appreciate it.
set myDialog to make dialog
tell myDialog
set name to "PDF North York Page"
set myDialogColumn to make dialog column
tell myDialogColumn
set myBorderPanel to make border panel
tell myBorderPanel
set myDialogColumn to make dialog column
tell myDialogColumn
make static text with properties {static label:"Version:"}
end tell
set myDialogColumn to make dialog column
tell myDialogColumn
set myVersionField to make text editbox with properties ¬
{edit contents:"1", min width:20}
end tell
end tell
set myBorderPanel to make border panel
tell myBorderPanel
make static text with properties {static label:"Colour:"}
set myColourGroup to make radiobutton group
tell myColourGroup
set myProRadioButton to make radiobutton control with properties ¬
{static label:"Pro", checked state:true}
set myBWRadioButton to make radiobutton control with properties ¬
{static label:"B&W"}
end tell
end tell
end tell
show myDialog
if button returned of myDialog = false then
tell me to quit
end if
the show command in Indesign CS returns only a boolean value: true for OK, false for Cancel.
Button returned is a term of display dialog of Standard Scripting Additions
I think this is what stefan is getting at.
you can just loose the button returned bit.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
set myDialog to make dialog
tell myDialog
set name to "PDF North York Page"
set myDialogColumn to make dialog column
tell myDialogColumn
set myBorderPanel to make border panel
tell myBorderPanel
set myDialogColumn to make dialog column
tell myDialogColumn
make static text with properties {static label:"Version:"}
end tell
set myDialogColumn to make dialog column
tell myDialogColumn
set myVersionField to make text editbox with properties ¬
{edit contents:"1", min width:20}
end tell
end tell
set myBorderPanel to make border panel
tell myBorderPanel
make static text with properties {static label:"Colour:"}
set myColourGroup to make radiobutton group
tell myColourGroup
set myProRadioButton to make radiobutton control with properties ¬
{static label:"Pro", checked state:true}
set myBWRadioButton to make radiobutton control with properties ¬
{static label:"B&W"}
end tell
end tell
end tell
show myDialog
if myDialog = false then
tell me to quit
end if
end tell
end tell
it is always a good idea to post the full script no matter how big, sometimes snippets of
scripts can be more confusing than not posting one at all…
Thank you very much for your posts… This was the first time I actually posted something, and thanks to your knowledge and support I was able to figure it out… I had to modify your solutions slightly because of the rest of the script, but it works flawlessly now.
Hi. Adobe baked in those commands to its applications. In order to have complex dialogs elsewhere, you need an app like Pashua or a library like Dialog Toolkit.
