InDesign 21.3 AppleScriptObjC script wont load fondation framework

Do script is really messy:

tell application id "InDn"
	activate
	set theScript to "	set {theAlert, theMess} to arguments
						display alert (theAlert as string) message theMess"
	do script theScript undo name "undoName" undo mode fast entire script with arguments {"La sélection n'est pas compatible.", "Aucun bloc image reçu."}
end tell

The code runs, but the text encoding is not right:

Can someone confirm this bug?

I’ve mentioned this discussion in the original thread of the 2025 AppleScript change announcement, in the hope that someone from Adobe adds your suggested OSAAppleScriptObjCEnabled to the application bundle and tries that example from the top.

Hi ​@zeRafio , Have you tried running a simple alert as a startup script just to make sure your startup scripts folder is working at all? Something like:

tell application id "InDn"
	display dialog "Hello World"
end tell

Sounds like a separate issue, and solvable at that. There once was a case where even a simple tell Finder did not work any more, because one of these Apple security flags was missing. While it took a while to trickle thru, the solution was adopted with a later application release, also including Illustrator if I remember correctly.

I also have one experimental UXP plugin where I use AppleScript to access the contacts framework to populate a QR code. Haven’t touched it in a while but I can look later today whether it still works. If the separate handler file gives you performance problems, using any of the javascript technologies as a launch vehicle could be an alternative to you. On the other hand my main logic is at the UXP side, and I did not keep anything open between the calls.

The change was announced and discussed past year, the 20+ years old AppleScript binding used plenty deprecated hacks.

https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/july-23-indesign-office-hours-applescript-event-handlers-upcoming-breaking-change/11200

Among others the equivalent to ExtendScript named targetengines was lost, including your use of event handlers that would live on in such a session/targetengine.

As a work around use a separate applescript based application for anything long term, and attach script files as event listener instead of your testHandler method, so they can bridge the event over to that external application/applet.

What specifically tells you that the framework won’t load?

In any case, I think that calling a handler from the same script won’t work in InDesign 2026:

make event listener with properties {event type:"afterOpen", handler:testHandler, name:"testHandler"}

You need to save the handler in a separate script and supply the path to that script.

There were discussions about this change here and on prerelease forums, I’ll try to find them.