Scriptui iconbutton in Illustrator CS5 - very simple?

[mindblox]

Hi all,

I am trying to make this very basic script work in Illustrator CS5 but I keep getting the following error:

Error 509: Invalid image data

Line: 4

-> w.add("iconbutton", undefined, f); //a

The code is:

var w = new Window ("dialog");

w.orientation = "row";

var f = File ("ai.jpg")

w.add ("iconbutton", undefined, f ); // a

w.show ();

I have tried it with .ico, .png, .jpg all with the same error.  Have been looking around for examples and tuts and I can't find anything wrong with my code.

I apologize if this is a stupid question 😃

[mindblox]

Not sure if possibly CS5 has some issues with iconbutton class?

Of note, the following works fine (using image instead of iconbutton); but would be a lot easier if I could use iconbutton

// . . .

// Number of vertical slices

// ---

var V_SPRITES = 3;

// Create the UI

// ---

var w = new Window('dialog',"ScriptUI Sprites"),

    myImage = w.add('image', undefined, myPNG),

    iSize = myImage.image.size,

    spriteHeight = iSize[1] / V_SPRITES;

myImage.size = [iSize[0], spriteHeight];

// . . .

[moluapple · Accepted solution]

your filepath is unvalid, isn't it?

try put you icon image on desktop folder and replace it with

var w = new Window ("dialog");
w.orientation = "row";
var f = File ("~/Desktop/ai.jpg")
w.add ("iconbutton", undefined, f ); 
w.show ();

[mindblox]

I would have sworn that I was getting a different error message for an incorrect path, but I just tested above and it worked flawlessly.  I then tested with a bad path and got the 509 error.  So 100% correct answer.

I was assuming the script would call a relative path to its own.

Thank you so much for catching this for me.