Any ideas on how to make a script run from a button would be of massive help!
Hello,
Any ideas on how to make a script run from a button would be of massive help!
I made a test script called script.jsx and I want to run it from a panel has a button 'Run Script'.
The script is intended to just open a new page and create a text box with some words.
So far i have the beblow
and indesign shows me this
it should be showing this - only when I made a change I have lost the button... not too sure why
Anyhow here is the problem
1) - the button is not showing
2) when the button was showing it failed to run the script
I am currently just copying the files to the CEP extentsions folder.
Below are the are the code files.
Any ideas on how to make a script run from a button would be of massive help!
Best,
Smyth.
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Script Runner</title>
</head>
<body>
<button id="runScript">Run Script</button>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
index.js
var csInterface = new CSInterface();
console.log('CSInterface loaded');
document.getElementById('runScript').addEventListener('click', function() {
console.log('Button clicked');
var script = "app.doScript(File('C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Adobe/CEP/extensions/ScriptRunner/script.jsx'))";
console.log('Script to run: ' + script);
csInterface.evalScript(script, function(result) {
console.log('Script executed with result: ' + result);
});
});
manifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ExtensionManifest Version="7.0" ExtensionBundleId="com.example.ScriptRunner" ExtensionBundleVersion="1.0.0"
ExtensionBundleName="ScriptRunner" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<ExtensionList>
<Extension Id="com.example.ScriptRunner" Version="1.0" />
</ExtensionList>
<ExecutionEnvironment>
<HostList>
<Host Name="IDSN" Version="[11.0,20.0]"/>
</HostList>
<LocaleList>
<Locale Code="All" />
</LocaleList>
<RequiredRuntimeList>
<RequiredRuntime Name="CSXS" Version="7.0" />
</RequiredRuntimeList>
</ExecutionEnvironment>
<DispatchInfoList>
<Extension Id="com.example.ScriptRunner">
<DispatchInfo >
<Resources>
<MainPath>./index.html</MainPath>
<ScriptPath>./index.js</ScriptPath>
</Resources>
<Lifecycle>
<AutoVisible>true</AutoVisible>
</Lifecycle>
<UI>
<Type>Panel</Type>
<Menu>ScriptRunner</Menu>
<Geometry>
<Size>
<Height>200</Height>
<Width>200</Width>
</Size>
</Geometry>
</UI>
</DispatchInfo>
</Extension>
</DispatchInfoList>
</ExtensionManifest>
And the indesign script script.jsx - which works if run from the panel.
// Create a new document
var myDocument = app.documents.add();
// Add a text frame to the first page
var myPage = myDocument.pages.item(0);
var myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.add();
// Set the position and size of the text frame
myTextFrame.geometricBounds = ["6mm", "6mm", "60mm", "190mm"];
// Add some text to the text frame
myTextFrame.contents = "Hello, InDesign! This is a script-generated text.";
// Create a new color
var myColor = myDocument.colors.add({
name: "ScriptBlue",
model: ColorModel.PROCESS,
colorValue: [100, 50, 0, 0] // CMYK values
});
// Apply the color to the text
myTextFrame.texts[0].fillColor = myColor;
// Set the font size
myTextFrame.texts[0].pointSize = 18;
alert("Script completed successfully!");
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