ScriptUIGraphics' foregroundColor no longer available to StaticText (?)

[Marc Autret]

Hi,

Up to InDesign 18.5, we could still apply a foreground color to a StaticText widget. Given the destruction that ScriptUI has suffered over the years, this was one of the last graphics features that we could still hope to see honored. But with InDesign 19.0, it seems that this last vestige of the ScriptUIGraphics API has also disappeared:

// JSX SAMPLE SCRIPT
// Test ScriptUIGraphics.foregroundColor on StaticText
(function(  win,st,gx)
{
   win = new Window('dialog','test');
   st = win.add('statictext', void 0, "Hello World");
   win.add('button', void 0, "OK");
   
   // Assign a foreground color to the StaticText widget.
   // ---
   gx = st.graphics;
   gx.foregroundColor = gx.newPen(gx.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [.3,.6,.9,1], 1);

   win.show();
})();

Result in ID 2023 (18.5) / Win10:

Result in ID 2024 (19.0) / Win10:

I'm not 100% sure this bug is cross-platform and cross-app. If you can confirm this to me — by testing in your environment — thank you in advance.

Best,

Marc

[Pickory]

Hi,

Broken on Intel Mac.

P.

Edited: This is very dissapointing. There are thousands of scripts that are being allowed to fade away.

[m1b]

Hi @Marc Autret, I can confirm on ID 19.0.1 MacOS 14.1:

Yes, a slow erosion of ScriptUI.

- Mark

[laurent tourniel7664515]

I confirm. ID 2024, Windows 11

[JoaoCP]

MacBook Pro M1

MacOS 14.0 Sonoma

InDesign 19.0

[TᴀW]

It works on Windows 11 with ID 2023 (English with Hebrew support),

but not in ID 2024 (English with Hebrew support).

Probably worth reporting this as a bug, though. I don't think they did it on purpose, and they have fixed one or two ScriptUI issues in the past.

[Sergey Osokin]

I don't have a newer version of InDesign installed, but I can say that in Adobe Illustrator CC 2024, color statictext in ScriptUI still works. So independent and uncoordinated are the teams for different products within the same company.