paste in indesign window

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#1

Here is the situation

I’m making a script for Indesign, the script calls another script in the script panel.

That part is fine it works.

When it runs the 2nd script there is a user interact window that open in Indesign, if I’m using it outside my applescript (I mean directly by double-clicking the script in the script panel), there is a place to type in text, i’m able to use the keyboard and insert the information without touching anything before. But when applescript calls it, I can’t use keystroke or paste or anything else that will fill the highlighted part of the window where the text should be entered.

If someone can give me a hand on that it would be great, i wasted a lot of time trying to figure it out!

Thank you

#2

You’re not going to be able to call the 2nd script that way. The first script is running, and actually doesn’t finish until the 2nd script does its thing and finishes- which it never will, since your 1st script is still in the foreground, and that’s what’s blocking the text input.
I suggest you find a better way of calling the 2nd script, or using a library or other method to load it and run inside the first script, or put the dialog inside the first script and just pass the value to the 2nd, etc.

#3

Thank you for relying, I will try to find another. That 2nd script is a third-party plug-in in javascript language wich I know nothing!