USER INPUT – DIALOGS II
AESTHETICS – MAKING YOUR DIALOG LOOK GOOD In our last post we explored creating user dialogs for Adobe InDesign. We started with a dialog template that was called from within a try/on error trap. Whether you call it from a trap or not is up to you, but a good practice is to alert the […]
USER INPUT – DIALOGS
When it comes to interacting with the user, AppleScript gives you a number of choices. With Adobe InDesign, you have even more. In this post we will look at working with InDesign’s dialog object. MAKE DIALOG The code for creating a dialog in InDesign can be fairly involved depending on the number of widgets (dialog […]
KEYBOARD SHORTCUT FOR SCRIPTS
CREATING A KEYBOARD SHORTCUT Do you have a script that you use often? Give it a keyboard shortcut to save yourself trips to InDesign’s Script’s panel. SAVE YOUR SCRIPT Once you get a script working the way you want it, save it to one of InDesign’s folders designated specifically for scripts. Where is that? you […]
APPLESCRIPT DATE
HAPPY NEW YEAR With the New Year, thoughts may tend to turn to dates; that is, days of the calendar. This post is designed for new users who may be struggling when it comes to working with AppleScript’s date object. But “those in the know” may also find some new information tucked away in the […]