special characters makes trouble with bridge talk in loaded script

[pixxxelschubser]

Why is this so and what can I do?

I use several scripts in Illustrator. Some of them I use in this way:

http://www.davidebarranca.com/2012/11/scriptui-bridgetalk-persistent-window-examples/

Now I tried to built in two other scripts in the palette. In this scripts it is required to use special characters in variables. Standalone these scripts are work correct.

Here is an simple example:

// exampleScript.jsx
var a = '\u201d'+" example "+'\u201d';
alert(a)

I get this (correct) result:

But when I call this example script with bridge talk:

var scriptToLoad = new File(pathToScript + "/exampleScript.jsx");
var win = new Window('palette', 'own palette');
var btnSelect = win.add('button', undefined, 'example');
btnSelect.onClick = function()
{scriptToLoad.open("r"); var bt = new BridgeTalk;
bt.target = "illustrator"; var script = scriptToLoad.read();
scriptToLoad.close(); bt.body = script; bt.send();}
win.center();
win.show();

Here is the same script and the wrong result:

What can I do to fix this?

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

hmm...Davide says we can't use back slash (\) with BridgeTalk in the Link you provided...

...check this thread to see if you can't get something to work

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3577867#3577867

[pixxxelschubser]

Hello CarlosCanto,

thank you for sharing the link. (Oh god, so much to read - and this with my English)

[CarlosCanto]

your English is fine, it is waaaaaaaaaaay better that my German

edit:

is it German? or Deutsch?

Message was edited by: CarlosCanto

[pixxxelschubser]

Really fine or amusing?

CarlosCanto wrote:

… Deutsch?

Woah!

100% perfect grammar and orthography.

Certainly there are not so much people are able to imitate this result.

back to topic

In your link I have found what I was looking for.

Even if the subject matter was a completely different - probably is the "Backslash-BUG" also the cause. Now I use an alternative syntax for the special characters and everything works perfect.

Thanx

[CarlosCanto]

Certainly there are not so much people are able to imitate this result.

I'm not that smart...I googled that

Now I use an alternative syntax for the special characters and everything works perfect.

do you mind sharing how you solved it?

thanks

[pixxxelschubser]

CarlosCanto wrote:

…

do you mind sharing how you solved it?

thanks

No problem:

...check this thread to find the solution

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3577867#3577867

[pixxxelschubser]

I hope you'll forgive me the little joke.

There are several ways to (call) special characters about their unicode.

This linked thread has reminded me.

decodeURI()

unescape()

String.fromCharCode()

and so on …

I use the unescape-method.

[CarlosCanto]

hahaha, no problem, I did the same to you earlier

thanks for sharing

[pixxxelschubser]

My pleasure,

and thanks for the help.