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[JS, CS5] Strange output in javascript console, from extractLabel

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January 19, 2011
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I get a lot of empty CData in the javascript console, if I write out the result from extractLable('anynonexistinglabel').

I use this code:

var allPgItems = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
for (var i = 0; i <=allPgItems.length-1; i++){
    
    var currentItem = allPgItems;
    $.writeln(currentItem.extractLabel('asdfgh'))
    
}

The result:

<![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]><![CDATA[
]]> etc

Is this behaviour repeatable?

Scripting

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Correct answer Peter Kahrel

It's a bug in the ESTK, on Windows, anyway. The ESTK doesn't like empty or null strings. See what happens when you do $.writeln ("")

Peter

Peter Kahrel

Correct answer

Community Expert

It's a bug in the ESTK, on Windows, anyway. The ESTK doesn't like empty or null strings. See what happens when you do $.writeln ("")

Peter

Andreas JanssonAuthor

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Yes, it's the same:

<![CDATA[
]]>

Thanks. It doesn't bother me too much. Just good to know it's the same for everyone else, and that this is not specific to my environment.

Best regards,

Andreas

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Andreas,

met the same bug during developing a script with ESTK v 3.5.1.59 (CS5) using insertLabel() and extractLabel().
After restarting both ESTK and InDesign CS5 (7.0.4), everything was o.k. again.

Empty text frames and empty cells showed:

<![CDATA[
]]>

as selection's contents.

An if(myCell.contents == "") let ESTK loop endlessly.

Glad it's over. At least for a while ;-)

Uwe

P.S. I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8

Message was edited by: Uwe Laubender

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