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A dialog-type window waits for you to click OK, then the script can continue. It's like InDesign doalog windows: while they're visible you can't do anything else.
What you need is a paletter-style window. They are like InDesign panels: while they're visible you can work on you document, and a script can do stuff while the paletter is displayed.
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I do not really have an existing code - because I do not know, how to do it.
Hi @JakabZs , The findGrep() method returns a single array of results—I don’t think you would need a progress bar, but if you wanted to loop thru a very long array, the progress increment could be add to the for loop.
Here my found variable is the result array:
//would gets every Foo
var found = getGrepSearch("Foo")
alert(found.length)
//returns the length of the search array
for (var i = 0; i < found.length; i++){
$.writeln(found[i])
//returns each item of the array e.g. [object Word]
};
/**
* Gets results of a grep search
* @ param text to search for
* @ return search results as an array
*/
function getGrepSearch(fp){
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = fp;
//an array of search results
return app.activeDocument.findGrep()
}
If I wanted to change each array item, I could use the changeGrepPreferences changeTo property. This should be much faster than looping through the found array:
/**
* Document Grep find and change
* @ param f the find grep string
* @ param c the change grep string
* @ return void
*/
function grepSearch(f,c){
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = f;
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = c;
app.activeDocument.changeGrep( true )
}
Here the 128 changes happen instantly
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