RtMouseText no longer loads after latest update

Report · Mar 16, 2018

The following code has worked for the past 6 months -- but the 0.1 update seems to have broken it

var fileMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseText");

fileMenu.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

var fileMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseSpellSuggestions");

fileMenu2.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);

}

I get an error (two actually -- one for each menu) that neither installed.

Anyone else experience this? Any suggestions what to do?

TIA

Report · Mar 16, 2018

Hi TIA,

hm…

I have no problem with "$ID/RtMouseText".
For example: A startup script written by Dirk Becker that is adding the menu action for "$ID/Apply no break" to the context menu "$ID/RtMouseText" is still working with my CC 2018.1 on Mac OS X 10.11.6 without any problems.

What is defined in your variable menuAction ?

Regards,
Uwe

Report · Mar 16, 2018

menuAction = app.scriptMenuActions.add(menuTitle);

and menuTitle is the text for the menu.

Is the script you mentioned available? I'd like to try it and see if it works...

Report · Mar 16, 2018

akiva_atwood wrote
… Is the script you mentioned available? I'd like to try it and see if it works...

See the link with my answer #2.

Regards,
Uwe

Report · Mar 16, 2018

You could try Dirk's script:

menuitemNoBreak.jsx script for Adobe InDesign

Regards,
Uwe

Report · Mar 16, 2018

Thanks. I'll give it a try

Report · Mar 18, 2018

Note that the script reuses an existing hard-wired action.

A scriptMenuAction requires more code where things can go wrong, including a targetengine.

Report · Mar 18, 2018

Here's the entire script:

#targetengine 'SSIsession';
var fTitle = "Add Style";
var selLength;
var theSel;
var fHandlersI = {
'beforeDisplay' : function(event)
{
try{
event.target.enabled = (app.documents.length>0);
}
catch(e){notify("RT003: \n"+e,2);}

        if(event.target.enabled){
            selLength=app.selection[0].characters.length;
            theSel=app.selection[0];
            }
},
'onInvoke' : function(event)
{
try{
app.doScript(addStyle, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "SmartStyleIt");
}
catch(e){notify("RT004: \n"+e,2);}
}
};
var fHandlersStyle = {
'onInvoke' : function(event)
{
          //alert(event.target.name);
          s=event.target.name;
          if(s.indexOf("pStyle")>0){
                ss=s.replace(" pStyle","");
                //alert(ss+"\r"+theSel.contents);
              theSel.appliedParagraphStyle=ss;
                }
        else{
            ss=s.replace(" cStyle","");
          // alert(ss+"\r"+theSel.contents);
                theSel.appliedCharacterStyle=ss;
            }
}
};
// THE MENU INSTALLER
// -----------------------------------------------
var fMenuInstaller = fMenuInstaller||
(function(menuTitle,menuHandlers)
{
var menuAction = app.scriptMenuActions.add(menuTitle);
var event;
for( event in menuHandlers )
{
menuAction.eventListeners.add(event,menuHandlers[event]);
}
// 3. Create the menu item
try{
var fileMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseText");
fileMenu.menuSeparators.add(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);
fileMenu.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);
var fileMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseSpellSuggestions");
fileMenu2.menuSeparators.add(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);
fileMenu2.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);
}
catch(e){
alert("failed to install RtMouseText");
}
return true;
})(fTitle, fHandlersI);
function installMenuItem(menuTitle,menuHandlers)
{
var menuAction = app.scriptMenuActions.add(menuTitle);
var event;
for( event in menuHandlers )
{
menuAction.eventListeners.add(event,menuHandlers[event]);
}
// 3. Create the menu item
try{
var fileMenu = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseText");
fileMenu.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);
var fileMenu2 = app.menus.item("$ID/RtMouseSpellSuggestions");
fileMenu2.menuItems.add(menuAction,LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING);
}
catch(e){
alert("failed to install RtMouseText");
}
return true;
}
function doStyle(){
    alert("assigned");
    }
function addStyle(){
    styleName="";
    sel=app.selection[0];
    if(selLength==0){
        styleName=sel.appliedParagraphStyle.name+" pStyle";
        }
    else{
        styleName=sel.appliedCharacterStyle.name+" cStyle";
        }
    installMenuItem(styleName,fHandlersStyle);
    }

It's a start up script. I get the error message alert ("failed to install") whenever it starts up AND when I use the menu item -- which works despite the error message

This behaviour is new -- just since the last update. Before that it worked fine without the error messages.