Script UI font-style on static text not working? [CC2014.1]

[_Eric_B_]

Hi,

Since we upgraded to CC2014 I had to rework some of our interfaces because of weird behavior, like event binded with addeventlistener not triggering or toggling text not displaying when resizing the window, now this time it's more simple and I can't understand why such simple thing is not working.

One of our interfaces has a statictext which is supposed to be bold, but for the life of me I can't make it bold.

Anyone one had success with making a static text in bold in CC2014.1?

Thanks

[Guest]

What does this static text mean. Is it the one which is not tagged?

[_Eric_B_]

I'm talking about the Script UI class StaticText
Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: StaticText (SUI)

[Trevor: · Accepted solution]

Hi Eric

see ID CC SUI - Insane Daft Crazy Cuckoo Stupid Useless Idiotic

I wrote the post after trying CC out for about 20 minutes which was a bit unfair  and there's  quite a few inaccuracies there but the general picture is correct.

In short don't expect to see the SUI pen issues fixed within your grandchildren's  life time, it might happen but then so might a lot of things happen by then.

A lot of the events got messed up also, if you post some code you might get a solution here.

Trevor

[_Eric_B_]

Hi Trevor,

I did come across your post and I'm baffled at how they could break so much things.

Here is a simple window that will demonstrate my problem. In CS55 this work as intended, but in CC2014 both text don't have bold.

var wBoldTest = new Window('dialog',"Bold Test",undefined);
buildWindow();
wBoldTest.show();

function buildWindow(){

  // Properties for wBoldTest.lblNotBold
  wBoldTest.lblNotBold = wBoldTest.add('statictext',undefined,"This is not in Bold");

  // Properties for wBoldTest.lblShouldBeBold
  wBoldTest.lblShouldBeBold = wBoldTest.add('statictext',undefined,"This should be in bold.");
  wBoldTest.lblShouldBeBold.graphics.font = ScriptUI.newFont(wBoldTest.lblShouldBeBold.graphics.font.family,"BOLD",wBoldTest.lblShouldBeBold.graphics.font.size);

}

Here is what it look like in CS5.5

Here is what it look like in CC2014.1

[Trevor:]

As a said, no real hope on the bold issue.

It's the event issue I was suggesting you post the code.

[_Eric_B_]

I manged to figured this out a while ago.  Some of the interface we had were still working as intended so by comparing those that worked with the one that didn't I saw the difference on how they were binding the event.

So something like this in CC2014 don't work anymore

w.bHelloWorld.addEventListener("click", function(){alert("Hello World");};

and need to be replace by this

w.bHelloWorld.onClick = function(){alert("Hello World");};

I just assumed that it was the new way of binding event and that addEvenListener must have been deprecated, but now I understand they just messed it up.

[Trevor:]

Use mousedown or mouseup instead of click.

On some object there's a difference between Mac and Windows for which one you need to pick