Hi all,
At last I figured out how to solve my problem. Here is my script:
/* CheckSpelling.jsx
Version 1
This script is written to remind a user to spell-check the current document.
Put this script into Startup scripts folder and restart InDesign if it's running. */
#target indesign
#targetengine "session"
var myLastDoc;
var myConfirm;
var myCheckSpellEvList = app.menuActions.item("Check Spelling...").addEventListener("beforeInvoke", myCheckSpellHandler, false);
var myBeforeCloseEvList = app.addEventListener("beforeClose", myBeforeCloseHandler, false);
var myAfterCloseEvList = app.addEventListener("afterClose", myAfterCloseHandler, false);
function myBeforeCloseHandler(myEvent){
myConfirm = false;
if (!eval(myEvent.parent.extractLabel("SpellingChecked")) && myEvent.parent.saved == true){
myLastDoc = myEvent.parent.fullName;
myConfirm = confirm("Do you want to check spelling now?", false, "You forgot to check spelling!");
}
}
function myAfterCloseHandler(myEvent){
if (!eval(myEvent.parent.extractLabel("SpellingChecked"))){
if (myConfirm) {
app.open(myLastDoc);
app.menuActions.item("Check Spelling...").invoke();
}
}
}
function myCheckSpellHandler(myEvent){
app.activeDocument.insertLabel("SpellingChecked", "true");
}
Initially I tried to take the approach offered by Ole (in the thread pointed out by Alexandre).
#targetengine "session"
main();
function main(){
var myCloseMenuAction = app.menuActions.item("Close");
var myEventListener = myCloseMenuAction.eventListeners.add("beforeInvoke",myBeforeInvokeHandler, false);
}
function myBeforeInvokeHandler(myEvent){
var myDoc = app.activeDocument.parent;
myEvent.preventDefault();
myEvent.stopPropagation();
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
app.menuActions.item("Check Spelling...").invoke();
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
}
But it had two drawbacks:
1 – If a user closes the window by clicking the window's close box, the script doesn’t carry out its duties, which are not allowing a user to forget check spelling of the document before he closes it.
2 – An alert pops up — “An attached script canceled this action.” — of which I unsuccessfully tried to get rid by setting temporarily userInteractionLevel to neverInteract.
When Harbs told me that the script running in an beforeClose event is equivalent to running a script on a document opened without a window, I remembered an example from the scripting guide: open a document in the background and the then show it:
var myDocument = app.open(File("/c/myTestDocument.indd"), false);
var myLayoutWindow = myDocument.windows.add();
I tried to repeat the trick:
#targetengine "session"
main();
function main(){
var myEventListener = app.addEventListener("beforeClose", myCheckSpelling, false);
}
function myCheckSpelling(myEvent){
myEvent.parent.parent.windows.add();
app.menuActions.item("Check Spelling...").invoke();
}
The document reappears, the “Check Spelling...” dialog shows up and at this moment the things go off the rails — InDesign is crashing.
The document at this moment seems to be in limbo: neither open, nor closed. So I decided to let it finish closing and then reopen it, in case a user chooses “Yes” in the confirm dialog.
Thanks again everybody who helped me.
Kasyan
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