InDesign CS2- Do a UI and repeat wont work right? Skips ahead fast?

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#1

I need to try to control a special plug-in pallet in CS2, it is not directly scriptable so I must use UI Scripting to replicate pressing the up arrow, then printing a PS file. Below is the script I am using. It currently prints the first page, then it waits, and then all at once presses the up key all in a row and does not do the other steps in the repeat.
Is there something I am missing? Is there a way to make the app stop and do the other steps before the UI kicks in again?

The script is designed to print the first page that is currently displayed, then repeats pressing the arrow to go to the next record, and then prints that, etc.


global myPath --the path to the location you want to save the PS files to
global aReturn
global aEuro
set aReturn to return --sets a return character to use in text
set aEuro to "€" --sets a character to Euro so we can remove it

set myPath to "Macintosh HD:Users:chrispav:Desktop:test:" --the path to the folder we want to save the files to

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
	display dialog "How many records are in this batch to export?" default answer "0"
	set myRecordCount to (text returned of result) as number
	set myPrintPresetChoice to ("Print PS File PDF7 test") as text
	--the printer preset we want to use
	tell print preferences of document 1 to set active printer preset to myPrintPresetChoice
	--sets the current printer style of the doc to what is here in script
end tell

PrintThePS()

--repeat (myRecordCount - 1) times
repeat 5 times
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Adobe Indesign CS2"
			set frontmost to true
			keystroke (ASCII character 30) --presses the "up" arrow
		end tell
	end tell
	PrintThePS()
end repeat

on PrintThePS()
	tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
		tell document 1
			set myPageSKUCode to (get contents of text frame "SKUcode" of page 1) as text
			--gets the text in the box
			
			if myPageSKUCode ends with aReturn then
				set myPageSKUCode to characters 1 thru -2 of myPageSKUCode as string
			end if
			--if there is a return at the end, skip past it
			
			if myPageSKUCode ends with aEuro then
				set myPageSKUCode to characters 1 thru -2 of myPageSKUCode as string
			end if
			--if there is a Euro character, skip that as well
			
			set myOutputPS to (myPath & myPageSKUCode & ".ps")
			--set the name of the PS file to print as a string
			tell print preferences to set print file to myOutputPS
			--tell ID to set the PS file name to output
			print without print dialog
			--print it
		end tell
	end tell
end PrintThePS

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#2

Try inserting a delay in the repeat loop, SuperMacGuy - just after the ‘PrintThePS()’ statement. So the loop might look something like this:

repeat with r from 1 to 5
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Adobe Indesign CS2"
			set frontmost to true
			keystroke (ASCII character 30) -- presses the "up" arrow
		end tell
	end tell
	PrintThePS()
	if r < 5 then
		delay 12 (* however many seconds it takes to print a page *)
	end if
end repeat
#3

That doesn’t really help with the prob. It seems that when I tell the UI to press the up key, ID doesn’t update itself. I get the beachball for a bit, and then the script goes on and prints the second PS file, then after THAT it finally updates the interface and the document.
Any ideas on how to get ID to be updated before it goes ahead to the next step?