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_Daniel_Rodney_
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May 2, 2008
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[JS] User Interface to Choose Layer Color (Get List of UIColors)

  • May 2, 2008
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I know how to set layer color with UIColors so I am not somewhat familiar with how it works. I want to create a dialog (which I know how to do) that has a menu that lets a user choose their layer color. So I want to get a list of all the UIColors and present that as a menu to the user. I cannot figure out how to get this list of colors. I know how to access them individually, but I'd think it would act similar to an array. I can't figure out the code to access the list to use it in a menu. Is this possible and if so how?

P.S. I am supporting InDesign CS2 and CS3.

Thanks in advance.
Dan
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_Dave_Saunders_
Inspiring
May 2, 2008
The $.writeln was for illustrative purposes only. You don't need it for building your list -- neither do you seem to need the counter variable.

The for ... in construction is JavaScript and has worked since CS, so what you have should work.

Dave
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_Daniel_Rodney_Author
Known Participant
May 2, 2008
I did not know about that "in" construction, very interesting. But the writeIn seems to only work in CS3. Below is my code that works in CS3. Keep in mind that I can't use ScriptUI because I am supporting CS2. Is there anyway to make this work in both CS2 and CS3?

myInDesignListOfLayerColors = new Array()
counter = 0
for (j in UIColors) {
$.writeln( j )
myInDesignListOfLayerColors.push( j )
counter ++
}
myLayerColorMenu = dropdowns.add( {stringList:myInDesignListOfLayerColors, selectedIndex:0} )

Thanks again for your quick replies! This is getting close.
Dan
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D¡rk Becker
Inspiring
May 2, 2008
Dave is right. I used this with a ScriptUI dialog:

for( n in UIColors ) {
s = n.split("_");
for( i in s )
s = s.substr(0,1) + s.substr(1).toLowerCase();
win.colorDDn.add("item",s.join(" ")).value = UIColors;
}

Recently I've submitted a feature request to add draw event handling to dropdown items ...

Dirk
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_Dave_Saunders_
Inspiring
May 2, 2008
Does this help? Run this in ESTK and look at the result in the Console:

for (j in UIColors) {
$.writeln(j);
}

Because UIColors is an object, you can get the names of each of its properties using the for ... in construction.

Dave
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