simple javascript with .onClick function not working. I have the following small script, and cannot figure out why it is not running through. any ideas?

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#target Illustrator

#targetengine main

// Function

function count_selected_objects(){

alert ("Start of function"); /// works OK!

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;

var items = selection;

var totalSelected = items.length;

for ( var i = 0 ; i < totalSelected ; i++){

//var my_elementy = app.activeDocument.selection;

alert("No. "+i);

}

// Palette Window

var win = new Window("palette", "Count elements");

win.alignChildren = "fill";

win.my_button = win.add("button",undefined, "Run");

win.my_button.onClick = function(){

count_selected_objects();

}

win.show();

Ten A · Accepted Answer

You can reference below:Calling functions from UI paletteTen

W_J_T · Answer

Just as a side note:Be careful using "alerts" inside loops. If you have 25-to-1000+ items selected you would have to deal with all those alerts as the loop iterates. A better way would be to declare a variable and increment the variable in the loop then report the variable only once, after the loop.// For example:var totalCount = 0; // before the looptotalCount += 1; // in the loopalert(totalCount + " Items Selected"); // after the loopHowever in the case of your code you do not even need a loop to accomplish the count of the selected, all you need is the length of the selected.var items = app.activeDocument.selection.length;alert(items + " Items Selected");Just wanted to point those things out, aside from needing BridgeTalk.

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