Dialog scroolbar

[Samuel22307458169h]

Hi all, I have this code, which allows me to select open documents individually and selectively close them, it works well, but when I have many documents open, the selection window it creates is too long and exits the screen, how can I add a scroll setting Is the height of the window fixed? Thank you

var openDocs = app.documents.everyItem().getElements()
var selectedDocs = [];
showDialog()
function showDialog(){
    var dialog = new Window("dialog", "Seleziona il file");
    var checkGroup = dialog.add("group");
    checkGroup.orientation = "column";
    checkGroup.alignment = "left";
    var checkboxes = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < openDocs.length; i++) {
      checkboxes[i] = checkGroup.add("checkbox", undefined, openDocs[i].name);
      checkboxes[i].value = false;
    }
    var buttonGroup = dialog.add("group");
    buttonGroup.orientation = "row";
    buttonGroup.alignment = "center";
    var selectAllButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, "Seleziona tutto");
    selectAllButton.onClick = function() {
      for (var i = 0; i < checkboxes.length; i++) {
        checkboxes[i].value = true;
      }
    }
    var deselectAllButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, "Deseleziona tutto");
    deselectAllButton.onClick = function() {
      for (var i = 0; i < checkboxes.length; i++) {
        checkboxes[i].value = false;
      }
    }
    //Button named "cancel" doesn’t need a close function
    var cancelButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "cancel"}); 
    cancelButton.text = "Annulla"; 
    var okButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, "OK");
    okButton.onClick = function() {
      for (var i = 0; i < checkboxes.length; i++) {
        if (checkboxes[i].value == true) {
            $.writeln(checkboxes[i].text)
            //returns the checkboxes text which can be used to get the document by name:
            selectedDocs.push(app.documents.itemByName(checkboxes[i].text));
        }
      }
      if (selectedDocs.length == 0) {
        alert("Nessun documento selezionato.");
      }
      dialog.close();
    }
    dialog.show()
    //after the dialog is closed run closeSelected function
    closeSelected()
}


function closeSelected(){
    for (var i = 0; i < selectedDocs.length; i++){
        selectedDocs[i].close(SaveOptions.YES)
    };
}

[m1b]

Hi @Samuel22307458169h, I don't think you can scroll a group of checkboxes. It seems to me that a better control for your script would be a ListBox. You can multi-select quite naturally and probably wouldn't need select all and select none buttons. Also handles scrolling for you. What do you think?

- Mark

[Samuel22307458169h · Accepted solution]

Hi m1b, thanks for the answer, I hadn't thought about it, but it was what I needed, I modified the script and now it works as I want, thanks for the suggestion

var openDocs = app.documents.everyItem().getElements()
var selectedDocs = [];
showDialog()

function showDialog(){
    var dialog = new Window("dialog", "Seleziona il file");
    var listBox = dialog.add("listbox", [0, 0, 500, 500], undefined, {multiselect: true});
    listBox.maximumSize.width = 600;
    listBox.maximumSize.height = 600;
    

    for (var i = 0; i < openDocs.length; i++) {
        listBox.add("item", openDocs[i].name);
    }

    var buttonGroup = dialog.add("group");
    buttonGroup.orientation = "row";
    buttonGroup.alignment = "center";

    var cancelButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, undefined, {name: "cancel"}); 
    cancelButton.text = "Annulla"; 

    var okButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, "OK");
    okButton.onClick = function() {
        for (var i = 0; i < listBox.items.length; i++) {
            if (listBox.items[i].selected == true) {
                selectedDocs.push(app.documents.itemByName(listBox.items[i].text));
            }
        }

        if (selectedDocs.length == 0) {
            alert("Nessun documento selezionato.");
        }

        dialog.close();
    }

    dialog.show();
    closeSelected();
}

function closeSelected(){
    for (var i = 0; i < selectedDocs.length; i++){
        selectedDocs[i].close(SaveOptions.YES)
    };
}

[m1b · Accepted solution]

Excellent work! Here is a quick version with a few tweaks. You may see a few little things that can help. Keep up the great work! 🙂

- Mark

var openDocs = app.documents.everyItem().getElements();
openDocs.sort(function (a, b) { if (a.name < b.name) return -1; if (a.name > b.name) return 1; return 0; });

var selectedDocs = [];
showDialog()

function showDialog() {
    var dialog = new Window("dialog", "Seleziona il file");

    var listBox = dialog.add('listBox', undefined, '', { numberOfColumns: 1, multiselect: true });

    for (var i = 0; i < openDocs.length; i++) {
        var item = listBox.add('item', openDocs[i].name);
    }

    listBox.maximumSize.height = getScreenDimensions()[1] - 200;
    listBox.preferredSize = [350, -1];
    var buttonGroup = dialog.add("group");
    buttonGroup.orientation = "row";
    //Button named "cancel" doesn’t need a close function
    var cancelButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, undefined, { name: "cancel" });
    cancelButton.text = "Annulla";
    var okButton = buttonGroup.add("button", undefined, "OK");
    okButton.onClick = function () {
        for (var i = 0; i < listBox.selection.length; i++) {
            selectedDocs.push(openDocs[listBox.selection[i].index]);
        }
        if (selectedDocs.length == 0) {
            alert("Nessun documento selezionato.");
        }
        dialog.close(1);
    };

    var result = dialog.show();

    if (result === 1) {
        // ok button
        closeSelected(selectedDocs)
    }
    else if (result === 2) {
        // user cancelled
        return;
    }


};

function closeSelected(docs) {
    for (var i = docs.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        try {
            docs[i].close(SaveOptions.YES)
        } catch (error) {
            // user cancelled dialog
        }
    };
};

function getScreenDimensions(index) {
    var screen = $.screens[Math.min(index || 0, $.screens.length - 1)];
    return [screen.right - screen.left, screen.bottom - screen.top];
};

[Samuel22307458169h]

Thank you very much!!!

[m1b]

You're welcome!