How to comment out in a Window resource String

[DBarranca]

Hi,

say that I have:

var str = "dialog { \
    btn1: Button { text: 'clickMe 1' },\
    btn2: Button { text: 'clickMe 2' }\
}"
var w = new Window(str)
w.show();

which gives a dummy ScriptUI Window of type 'dialog'.

I'd like to comment out a part of that resource String, say the btn1 line. How do I do?

Inline... I'd say it's not possible, so I've tried

// they don't work 😕
w.btn1 = null; // or undefined
delete w.btn1;

To no avail. I cannot use

w.btn1.visible = false;

because the element, still, will occupy his own Window real estate even if it's invisible:

While what I'm after is a way to comment out the element so that the result is:

Basically I've quite complex resource strings that I don't want to mess up when I experiment. I could duplicate the entire code, but I'm curious to see whether there are smarter options.

Suggestions are really appreciated 🙂

Thank you!

Davide Barranca

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[Guest · Accepted solution]

Ciao Davide,

This seems to work for me in Photoshop CS4 Mac OS X:

var str = "dialog { btn1: Button { text: 'clickMe 1' }, btn2: Button { text: 'clickMe 2' } }"
var w = new Window (str)
w.remove (w.btn1)
w.show ();

or:

var str = "dialog { btn1: Button { text: 'clickMe 1' }, btn2: Button { text: 'clickMe 2' } }"
var w = new Window (str)
w.remove ("btn1")
w.show ();

or:

var str = "dialog { btn1: Button { text: 'clickMe 1' }, btn2: Button { text: 'clickMe 2' } }"
var w = new Window (str)
w.remove (0)
w.show ();

From https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/scripting/pdfs/javascript_tools_guide.pd f :

HTH,

     --Michel

[DBarranca]

Gee, it was in the documentation; what a silly old boy I've become 🙂

Thank you very much Michel!

Davide