To create and interact with user interface elements

[Dmitriy27445167miri]

Greetings to everyone!
When I call a dialog, I need to pass it the value of the text (StaticText). EditText would like the text to be typed from the center (justify: "center").

I wrote the code for such a window in two versions.
in the first case, I cannot assign a value (StaticText).
In the second version, I cannot make the text in the EditText field aligned in the center.

How to make any of the options work?

var myTxt = 'figny';

// version1
var w = new Window( "dialog { \
    orientation: 'row', \
    st: StaticText {text:myTxt}, \
    pb: Button { text: 'OK' }, \
    et: EditText { characters:15, justify:'center' } \
    }");
w.show(); 

// version2
win = new Window('dialog');
win.orientation = 'row';
win.st = win.add('statictext', undefined, myTxt);
win.bt = win.add('button', undefined, 'ok');
win.et = win.add('edittext');
win.et.characters = 15;
win.et.justify = 'center';
win.show();

[Dmitriy27445167miri]

Fixed the first option. it works

var myTxt = 'figny';


var w = new Window( "dialog { \
    orientation: 'row', \
    des: StaticText { characters:5 }, \
    pb: Button { text: 'OK' }, \
    et: EditText { characters:15, justify:'center' } \
    }");
w.des.text = myTxt;
w.show();

[Charu Rajput · Accepted solution]

Try following

var myTxt = 'figny';

// version1
var w = new Window("dialog { \
    orientation: 'row', \
    st: StaticText {text:'" + myTxt + "'},\
    pb: Button { text: 'OK' }, \
    et: EditText { characters:15, justify:'center' } \
    }");
w.show();

// version2
win = new Window('dialog');
win.orientation = 'row';
win.st = win.add('statictext', undefined, myTxt);
win.bt = win.add('button', undefined, 'ok');
win.et = win.add('edittext {text: "", characters: 15, justify: "center", active: true}');
win.show();

[Dmitriy27445167miri]

Great!!!
I still need to know a lot about script writing rules

[Dmitriy27445167miri]

Hi everyone!
I will continue to ask questions in this topic so as not to create a new one...
How do I access a management object by its unique name defined in its properties?
I would like to use a variable as a name when accessing.
For example, I create a checkbox with the unique name 10.

var win = new Window( 'dialog' );
chInk_10 = win.add( 'checkbox {text:"ink_10", visible:false, properties:{name:10}}' );

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

these are all the different ways of using the name property

var win = new Window( 'dialog' );
chInk_10 = win.add( 'checkbox {text:"ink_10", visible:false, properties:{name:"ten"}}' );

// access element by finding the element
var check10 = win.findElement("ten"); // this also works with a name like 10
check10.visible = true;

alert("or by chaining its name: \n\nVisible: " + win.ten.visible); // this won't work with a numeric name, variable names should not start with numbers in general

alert("or by targeting the parent's children name: \n\nVisible: " + win.children["ten"].visible); // name:10 will also work here

win.show();

[Dmitriy27445167miri]

thank you for your time on my problem.
I had to organize a search for checkboxes by name. And I decided this as follows: I added letters to the number in the name.

As I understand, if you use only digits in the name, then the value of the variable converted String() cannot be substituted as an argument in the function findElement()

var win = new Window( 'dialog' );
chInk_1 = win.add( 'checkbox {text:"ink_10", properties:{name:"ch1"}}' );
// many more checkboxes
chInk_10 = win.add( 'checkbox {text:"ink_10", properties:{name:"ch10"}}' );

for (i = 1; i < 2; i++ ) { // loop, as an example of a variable change
var nameCh = 'ch' + String(i);
win.findElement(nameCh).value = true;
}
win.show();

[femkeblanco]

Hi @CarlosCanto.  Where did you get findElement() from?  It's not in the old tool's guide I have. 

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi @CarlosCanto.  Where did you get findElement() from?  It's not in the old tool's guide I have. 

By @femkeblanco

Hi @femkeblanco 

https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/user-interface-tools/scriptui-programming-model.html#accessing...

Have fun

😉

[CarlosCanto]

Hi @femkeblanco it's in the last Tools Guide, I think for 2017? I think all Tool Guides are just copies of the previous doc, I don't think they had any updates anyway. It's on pages 66-67 "Creation Properties", "Accessing Child Elements"

I'm not sure if it's always been in the Tools Guide, I remembered I had used the findElement() before so I just searched my scripts library, but then I went to the Guide to provide a more concise answer

What version do you have?

[femkeblanco]

Thanks @CarlosCanto and @pixxxelschubser.  I have been using the CS3 guide, which I presume came with CS6 (2012).  I didn't think it was ever updated.  The present guide seems to be based on the 2013 guide.  It has the same exact paragraph, except with to more lines introducing findElement(). 

[CarlosCanto]

I fetched the CS5 Tools Guide, it's from 2010, findElement is there in the same spot as the current guide pages 67 and 120.

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi everyone!
I will continue to ask questions in this topic so as not to create a new one …

By @Dmitriy27445167miri

Hello @Dmitriy27445167miri 
even though it may seem advantageous to you at the moment - it is not.

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😉

[Dmitriy27445167miri]

Yes, I have already understood my mistake. Excuse me as a newcomer to the forum.
I will not do this again!

[pixxxelschubser]

That's not a problem at all. We were all newcomers here once.
😉

Question:
Could @CarlosCanto 's answer help solve your second problem?

[Dmitriy27445167miri]

That's not a problem at all. We were all newcomers here once.
😉

Question:
Could @CarlosCanto 's answer help solve your second problem?

By @pixxxelschubser

yes of course.

[CarlosCanto]

Yes, I have already understood my mistake. Excuse me as a newcomer to the forum.
I will not do this again!

By @Dmitriy27445167miri

I agree with @pixxxelschubser, a new thread would have been better for future use, but not creating one is not that big of a deal, don't worry about it.