Can js tell if the InDesign icon on the taskbar is activated (current window)?

What exactly is the end goal here? Let us know what do you want to do, maybe then some ideas could float around

-Manan

I'm not an expert on this question, but here are some of my observations, and these are only on MacOS and might be different for Windows:

1. A script will run fine when Indesign isn't the frontmost application. I often let a long-running script work away while I'm doing something else in another app.

2. However, certain operations will interfere. eg.

- ScriptUI dialogs sometimes float in front of everything, even when I switch to another app.

- Some operations cause Indesign (actually this is more common with Illustrator) to "demand to be frontmost" and will pause the script until I make indesign frontmost again (and then I can go back).

As I said, I suspect these details will be different with Windows because of how active apps and windows are managed.

So the short answer is the script will not usually fail when Indesign changes to a non-current application.

- Mark