Robohelp 2019 Classic Extendscript Toolkit

Oh I also created this item about scripting, which you could vote on if you like the suggestions. And feel free to submit your own. 🙂

https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/RH-6674

(disclaimer: I was having a bad day, so the comments are a little snarky...)

There's a robohelp scripting reference here: https://helpx.adobe.com/robohelp/user-guide.html

It's um, shall we say, succinct? And there's no section that I noticed,  or understood, not being a web developer, that lists or links all the 3rd party libraries, so as far as I can tell you just have to figure it out on your own.

Thx, that helps. OK, so now I have to learn an entirely new infrastructure. I'm not complaining as I'm sure the new framework is much richer (including using React and Material UI as well as all the other 3rd party JS libraries available by default) and better supported. Without the information in your linked thread I never would have been able to figure this out on my own, at least not in any reasonable amount of time ;). I wonder if I'm missing where the key documentation is for all of this (i.e., Adobe product users that are familar with ES Toolkit and legacy scripting but have had no exposure to Chrome Devtools and the more modern node.js, React, Material-UI, et al framework(s)).

Implied here as well is that the scripts that come with RH2019 *won't* work with RH2019 Classic (which was the reason I was seeing the error as I was running them from ES Toolkit, which is wanted to run RH2019 Classic). To put this another way RH2019 Classic scripts are not support in RH2019 New UI (and vice versa). Well, I know the latter to be true at least, not *exactly* sure about the former...

ES Toolkit won't work for 2019 New UI, if that is what you're using. It will only work in Classic. I've also found the Object Model Viewer doesn't currently seem to display the RH classes, which I'm trying to sort out with support (which reminds me I need to follow up with them.)

For New UI, you have to use browser debugging by pressing Ctrl+Alt+D. (See here for a little more information about New UI scripting: https://community.adobe.com/t5/robohelp/rh2019-new-scripting-feature/td-p/10700312?page=1  )

I see the "Extendscript Toolkit CC" product listed in the Adobe Creative Cloud app (I use Win10). It can be installed from there. I use this toolkit for some Photoshop scripts that I run and the toolkit app works reasonable well for these.

I've only just started to try using scripts in RoboHelp (2019) and so far the built-in scripts work fine from RH itself but not from the ES Toolkit app (I see errors about "variable name expected on line 5" - e.g., WordCount.js)... I've also noticed that there's an ES Toolkit extension for VSCode available in case that's an option for you (although I still see the same error as above when running the WordCount.js example from VSCode...).