Custom Browse Scheme

[_Bruce_Richards_]

Ok, as per the Adobe Bridge Javascript reference, I'm trying to add a custom browse scheme as follows:<br /><br />app.registerBrowseScheme("mim");<br />var root = new Thumbnail("mim://root", "My MIM");<br />root.displayPath="http://www.pbase.com/"; // just testing<br />root.displayMode="web";<br /><br />app.favorites.insert(root);<br /><br />This inserts the 'My MIM' entry in Favorites - however, there are 2 thumbnails not 1 as expected. Subsequent invocations add another thumbnail each time, so I modified the code as below to check whether it had already been inserted:<br /><br />var hasMIM = false;<br />for (var i=0; i<app.favorites.length; i++)<br />{<br /> if (app.favorites.name == "My MIM")<br /> {<br /> hasMIM = true;<br /> }<br />}<br /> <br />if (!hasMIM)<br />{<br /> app.favorites.insert(root);<br />}<br /><br />This however does not seem to work. Does anybody know how this is supposed to work or is this a bug?<br /><br />On a related note, does anyone know how to specify a custom icon for the thumbnail in Favorites?

[_Robert_Stucky_]

There was an earlier post on the subject of adding icons with favorites using scripting:

Robert Stucky, "Adding an item to Favorites with an Icon" #, 27 May 2005 1:58 pm

Bridge remembers favorites between launches, so you should store your favorites added state in preferences.

if ( !app.preferences.myMimFavoritesAdded ) {
app.favorites.insert( root );
app.preferences.myMimFavoritesAdded = true;
}

[_Bruce_Richards_]

Robert,

Thanks very much for the response, and the pointers. The problem of multiple Favorites entries for a single insert still remains, though. I tried it with the sample script from the reference too, and it does the same thing. The first time the insert is done, there are 2 entries in Favorites rather than just one.

When I click the second duplicate entry, the focus quickly goes back to the first one but they both do show up in Favorites.

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My Mim
My Mim
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Is this happening only on my machine? Is there some way to fix it?

[_Robert_Stucky_]

Huh. That doesn't happen with my machine.

What's the platform/OS?

Bob
Adobe Workflow Scripting

[_Bruce_Richards_]

Actually, I just found out that this happens the first time the insert script is run and not on subsequent launches of Bridge. I.e. the next time Bridge is run, it displays only a single thumbnail entry in Favorites.

I guess one would insert the Favorites thumbnail(s) via script then shut down Bridge and restart it for cosmetic consistency, but that's not fatal.

[_Bruce_Richards_]

Windows XP/SP 2 - I have a pretty vanilla system for development.

[_Thomas_Fors_]

I was seeing the same thing on both Win XP and Mac OS X... I found a work-around by looking at the stockphoto scripts:

Create an event handler and add your thumbnail to favorites once when the Document "create" event occurs.

--Tom

[_Robert_Stucky_]

Interesting. I don't see that, same platform.

I'll check into it a bit.

Bob