Placing a snippet problem

[bagonterman]

var myCheck = app.activeDocument.pages.item(0).place(File(snippet));

This works just fine from the toolkit but when I am running this from a third party software it doesn't work unless a user presses the cursor key on the page and then it places but I need this to be automatic. I was wondering if there was a way you could force a key press.

Something like:

app.menuActions.item("$ID/Selection Tool").invoke();

then app.select("a point on the page")

Ideas??

[Laubender]

Gonterman1201  wrote

… but when I am running this from a third party software it doesn't work unless a user presses the cursor key on the page …

Hi Gonterman1201 ,

can you be more specific what is meant by that?

What "third party software"?

Can you discuss the issue with the developers?

Regards,
Uwe

[bagonterman]

It is ekso pilot. I solved the problem although I can't for sure say why the problem occurs. If all the actions take place under one function than it places fine. When I ran it as a separate function it was as if the software lost track of where it was and then did not place the snippet. I can't say that for sure. But having a function and running it twice once for the first template and again for the second template worked. Thanks for your reply.