Custom scripts dialogue window placement

[martink15467522]

Is it possible to control, where the new dialogue window/alert of a custom script will appear on the screen when triggered? I have a new 4k monitor + 2nd smaller one. I use illustrator in the 4k monitor. All the alerts appear off-centered of the screen and the scripts that have a dialogue window open in the other monitor. 

Is there a way to control, where the new windows appear? Moving them by hand does not work or do anything.
I can somehow control it when changing the Main display option in windows 11 settings, but they still appear in random places on the screen. Added sample picture for reference. 

[m1b · Accepted solution]

Hi @martink15467522 I think this might be a tricky problem because I don't think ScriptUI has a very sophisticated understanding of multiple monitors. One option is to just store the position that the user moves it to, and re-instate it next time. We can use Illustrators preferences for this. Here is a script showing this approach.

- Mark

/**
 * @file Store ScriptUI Window Location Example.js
 * 
 * (For Adobe Illustrator only.)
 * 
 * @author m1b
 * @version 2025-12-05
 */
(function () {

    const DEFAULT_X = 200;
    const DEFAULT_Y = 200;
    const NO_PREFERENCE_VALUE = 1861879264;

    var w = new Window('dialog { text:"Window position example" }');
    var textGroup = w.add('Group { margins:[10,10,10,10] }');
    textGroup.add('StaticText { text:"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." }');

    var okayButton = w.add('Button { text: "Done", alignment:["right","top"], properties:{ name:"ok" } }');

    okayButton.onClick = function () {
        // store the window location in preferences
        app.preferences.setIntegerPreference('windowLocationLeft', w.location[0]);
        app.preferences.setIntegerPreference('windowLocationTop', w.location[1]);
        w.close(1);
    };

    // read the window location from preferences
    var windowX = app.preferences.getIntegerPreference('windowLocationLeft');
    var windowY = app.preferences.getIntegerPreference('windowLocationTop');

    if (NO_PREFERENCE_VALUE === windowX)
        windowX = DEFAULT_X;

    if (NO_PREFERENCE_VALUE === windowY)
        windowY = DEFAULT_Y;

    w.location = [windowX, windowY];

    var result = w.show();

    if (2 === result)
        // user cancelled
        return;

})();

[martink15467522]

Thanks! This works.