synchronized scrollbars of differents documents (using FM10)

This problem can be solved with a script.

Try the following steps.
1. Run this script.
2. Open all documents.
3. Place the cursor inside the paragraph.
4. Operate the mouse wheel on the small scroll bar.

var w = new Window("palette");
var sbar = w.add ("scrollbar", [0,0,20,100], 50);
sbar.onChange = function () {
    var doc = app.FirstOpenDoc;
    while (doc.ObjectValid()){
        if (doc.TextSelection.beg.obj.ObjectValid()) {
            app.ActiveDoc = doc;
            if (sbar.value<50){
                //Cursor (insert point) moving commands
                //Previous paragraph start
                Fcodes([FCodes.CSR_BOP]);
            } else {

                //Next paragraph start
                Fcodes([FCodes.CSR_NEXT_BOP]);
            }
        }
        doc = doc.NextOpenDocInSession;
    }
    sbar.value = 50;
}
w.show();

I found a solution, who are intresting about it must contact me privately. My email is: marco.dona1996@gmail.com

-Marco

You can solve the problem with an external script (AutoHotkey script), which sends keystrokes to FM (ah, I'm missing "insert code" in this editor):

ScrollBothDn:
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily9.MdiFrame
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily10.MdiFrame
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily11.MdiFrame
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily12.MdiFrame
  Send, {PgDn}                          ; scroll this down
  Send, ^{Tab}                          ; switch to other doc window
  Send, {PgDn}                          ; scroll this down
  Send, ^{Tab}                          ; switch to first doc window
Return

ScrollBothUp:
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily9.MdiFrame
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily10.MdiFrame
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily11.MdiFrame
  WinActivate,  ahk_class FrameFamily12.MdiFrame
  Send, {PgUp}                          ; scroll this down
  Send, ^{Tab}                          ; switch to other doc window
  Send, {PgUp}                          ; scroll this down
  Send, ^{Tab}                          ; switch to first doc window
Return

I have implemented this in a small Utility TextHelper .

If You want to scroll by page rather by screen (you need to have the same zoom level though) - you can set up a small customui.cfg for the fminit folder:

<Modify GotoPreviousScreen<KeySequence /F11>>
<Modify GotoNextScreen  <KeySequence /F12>>
<Modify GotoPreviousPage <KeySequence /PgUp>>
<Modify GotoNextPage  <KeySequence /PgDn>>

Klaus Daube

Marco,

Are you using ExtendScript? If so, the only way I know to move a scrollbar (without programming to the Windows API) is to use the ScrollToText() method. This will scroll a document to a specific spot, more or less. But, you would have to know where you want to scroll to and you would have to be able to respond to a scroll action in another window. I don't know that this is possible.

The more I think about it, this may not be possible using FrameMaker development tools alone. I don't think there is any way to automatically respond to a scrolling action, which would be required to trigger a scroll in another window. Plus, it would be real tricky to figure out how far to scroll, etc.

What is the specific reason you want to do this? Perhaps there is an alternative.

Russ