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July 13, 2014
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Cancel / OK non-English Buttons

  • July 13, 2014
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Hi all,

As well known when a dialog button string is "OK" or "Cancel" a default action occurs (1 is returned for OK and 2 for Cancel)

Is this true for non-English versions of Indesign?

I would presume let's say on the German version of InDesign on the built-in dialogs one see the terms OK and Abbrechen but does Cancel work? And out of curiosity does "Abbrechen" work?

var w = new Window('dialog'),


    b1 = w.add('button', undefined, "OK"),


    b2 = w.add('button', undefined, "Cancel");


alert((w.show() == 1) ? "OK" : "Cancel");

Thanks

Trevor

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Hi Trevor,

My guess is that the using the string OK or Cancel for the text property

is probably not going to work for non-English localizations. (Can anyone

confirm that? Uwe?)

The way to make sure it does work, though, is to use the Name property

(it's a creation property) as opposed to the Text property.

If you do that, you can use the two special names OK and Cancel, and I

believe that will work in any localization:

b2 = w.add('button', undefined, "Cancel", );

Ariel

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TᴀWCorrect answer
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July 13, 2014

Hi Trevor,

My guess is that the using the string OK or Cancel for the text property

is probably not going to work for non-English localizations. (Can anyone

confirm that? Uwe?)

The way to make sure it does work, though, is to use the Name property

(it's a creation property) as opposed to the Text property.

If you do that, you can use the two special names OK and Cancel, and I

believe that will work in any localization:

b2 = w.add('button', undefined, "Cancel", );

Ariel

Trevor:
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July 13, 2014

Hi Ariel

My guess is that my script will work in the non-English localizations but also waiting to hear from Uwe

I highly doubt b = w.add('button', undefined, "בסדר") will work

The example line you wrote at the bottom came messed up maybe you meant to write b2 = w.add ("button", undefined, "Abbrechen", {name: "cancel"}); ?

Trevor

TᴀW
TᴀW
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July 13, 2014

Yes, the last line is what I wrote.

In short, I suspect that using one of the special Name

creation-properties (OK and Cancel) will work in any localization,

whereas the Text property of the button is probably less robust.

Let's see if anyone can confirm...

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