Open Script Editor.app and display the Window > Library panel. You will find it in.   Script Editor.app can be found here. /System/Applications/Utilities/Script Editor.app   ... View more

"open location" is a method defined in StandardAdditions and can be used anywhere in AppleScript. Of course, you can also use the shell script "open" command without "open location".     ... View more

I tested it with a simple AppleScript. tell application id "com.adobe.InDesign" to open location "https://www.google.com/"   This succeeds for InDesign 2020-2022 and fails for 2023 and 2024 (Prerelease). It also succeeds when executed in a tell block in another app outside of InDesign.   I was suspicious of the macOS security settings, but they seemed fine. This makes it seem more likely that it is a bug in InDesign. ... View more

// How about this code app.selection = [] ; ... View more

Removing the try syntax is unlikely to have any effect; it may be possible to address the problem in ExtendScript by, for example, passing the process to BridgeTalk and ignoring subsequent moves.   However, even if you do that, the same problem can occur if the upstream script launcher has not taken a similar action. So it is up to you to actually incorporate such processing.   If this were me, I likely would not do it, and would try to solve the problem by providing a script launcher that is closer to the OS side. ... View more

@Kurt Gold When a script launcher waits for a result when executing a script, in other words when it executes a script with a modal operation, the keys typed during that time are added to a queue of some kind.   Then, when the modal is released, the process in the queue is executed. This is not the intended behavior. Thus, the script launcher should relieve itself of its duties the moment it sends a request to execute a script, unless it is absolutely necessary.   I agree that other factors are also involved, so please let us know if you find any laws or characteristic behaviors.   @jduncan It makes sense. In fact, consistent use of one type of environment may have provided stability. ... View more

This probably has multiple causes involved, but at least it seems able to explain the JSX Launcher error.   Recall the two messages it displayed. The selection is not valid for this filter The object "Simplify" is not currently available   This seems to indicate that the selection is empty.   Now let’s look at @Kurt Gold ’s action.   Since it is "Simplify" making the error, it seems likely that the selection was lost after the four preceding steps. Copy Paste in Front Set color Transform Each   I am familiar with this field, so at this point I already have an idea that "Paste in Front" is suspect. Then, I experiment with only starting from "Set color" without selection. As expected, I get the same two messages as in the JSX Launcher.   The results of the experiment show the following. Empty selections are likely the cause "Set color" and "Transform Each" do not raise an error even if the selection is empty It is likely that the selection was lost between after "Paste in Front" and before "Simplify"   Therefore, possible countermeasures are to add a pause after "Paste in Front" or to explicitly reselect the duplicated path in the action. Dash Nipper has such a process, if I remember correctly. [JS] [Action] Split or break a dashed line into separate (real) lines by script ... View more

Another concern is whether the focus is on the Illustrator app at the exact moment the action is executed.   This is rarely a real problem, but there used to be a note that the focus must be on the Illustrator app when the action is executed. ... View more

@jduncan As I recall, there was a problem in Windows where actions that were selected (active) in the action panel could not be executed by scripts. I searched and found the same statement in addition to mine. object "play action" not available   @m1b As for undo state, app.redraw() acts as a kind of "commit" and that makes the difference less. As for the selection state, I sometimes work around the problem by reproducing the state that should be there on the script side. ... View more

Depending on the route used to execute the script, the position of the undo state and the state of the selection after the action is executed will change.   In this case, I think it is most likely due to the fact that the action is dependent on the selection state.   The routes are as follows Execute from the script menu Open the jsx file in Illustrator Drop the jsx file on the document Execute from do javascript ... View more

I am doing that with a plugin currently in development actually. It is possible. However, cleaning up the menu when quitting InDesign has been a challenge. Here’s a helpful note. Completely remove submenu added by script ... View more

Found a new command. But this is not a stable key, and the numerical part could change.   Window > Contextual Task Bar _GenericPluginMenuItem 25 Added from v27.9 ... View more

@Anoop Valomkot  The UXP plugin allows to pass functions directly to doScript instead of strings. Can we also expect this to increase speed as well, or does it have to be a string or a file?   import * as InDesign from 'indesign' ; const { app, ScriptLanguage, UndoModes } = InDesign ; const scriptProcess = () => { console.log(app.version) ; } ; app.doScript(scriptProcess, ScriptLanguage.UXPSCRIPT, [], UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT) ; // --> '18.5.0.57'     ... View more

That is unfortunate.   I thought it might be useful to detect or highlight changes, for example, if the documents were exported to an idml or snippet file. That is because it is just text.   If you think it is not relevant, that’s fine. ... View more

Git is software mainly used for version control of program code and related assets. It automatically detects changes made by the user, and allows the user to record them in the history or revert to a historical stage.   Since the main target is text files, InDesign binary files are not a specialty of Git, but it should be able to manage them. ... View more

It seems to me that this could be accomplished by simply sending the appropriate action to Git before the file is opened and after it is closed. Is that a good substitute? ... View more

When the target item does not exist, it seems that a special object called NothingEnum.NOTHING must be passed to the select command. Currently an empty array is specified, which is causing the error.   This part parent.select(myObjectsToSelect, myInDesign.SelectionOptions.replaceWith); should be like this if(myObjectsToSelect.length <= 0) { myObjectsToSelect = myInDesign.NothingEnum.NOTHING; } parent.select(myObjectsToSelect, myInDesign.SelectionOptions.replaceWith); ... View more

I get an error ReferenceError: Object is invalid. This is expected behavior, because the target submenu no longer exists.   I created a new workspace, disabled Menu Customization and tried again in English version. The result is the same: it disappears from the menu bar, but remains in Menu Customization.   Our attempts are not going smoothly... ... View more

Report that the same problem occurred in the English version. ... View more

In my environment, even a submenu with a different name, it is increased in Menu Customisation and cannot be deleted.   Maybe there is something wrong with Japanese or other Asian language versions. I will try installing the English version. ... View more

Thanks for your responses, @Peter Kahrel, @Manan Joshi.   This question is aimed at developing a well-mannered script that generates a submenu when InDesign is launched and disappears completely when it quits. Should I assume that is not possible? ... View more