I've been building a main Illustrator ScriptUI palette script that has some custom icon buttons on it that I can click to call other scripts. The scripts get called using BridgeTalk. Some of these scripts contain #include statements such as: #include "jsx_modules.jsx" ...that contain frequently used functions so that I can easily call them from multiple scripts. This makes it so that I don't have to copy the same functions to multiple files which would be very hard to mantain.   This line of code as far as I can tell simply looks for other script files in the same directory as itself and just grabs their contents. This works quite well. But it causes a problem when I try to call scripts that have these #include lines by using BridgeTalk. My understanding is that using BridgeTalk to call scripts somehow executes the called scripts in a different directory entirely. I managed to find what I believe is that directory: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp\esdebug This means that since they are being executed in this other secluded directory, the #include line will cause a failure since it can't find the other function module scripts in this directory.   How do I go about solving this problem? Thanks.   If anyone needs I'll share the BridgeTalk code I'm using. ... View more

Sometimes I find that newly created live text objects or other objects have appearances on them that I can't see in the Appearance tab but I know that some form of extra appearance exists (unless it's a bug) because going to the top menu and trying to do Object > Expand... won't work. This is because the option is greyed out and instead Object > Expand Appearance is available. When I click this I can see nothing changes in the Appearance tab, and yet Object > Expand... becomes available again.   The existence of these hidden appearances actually causes problems with scripts I write in regards to dealing with appearances in various ways.   Repoducing this problem is very easy as all you need to do is create some default text with no appearance, then with the text selected use the eyedropper tool to click on the text. You will notice in the Layers panel that the object's selection circle(if that's what it is called?) becomes filled with grey indicating it has an appearance even though the Appearance panel shows nothing has changed. This appearance has materialized out of nowhere.   This has to be a bug right? ... View more

Is it possible in ExtendScript to set a ScriptUI image object to nothing such that the image that is rendered in the dialog window will disappear? I already know how to set the image to different images but not how to "delete" it if I don't want an image to appear at all. I already looked around in the documentation but I couldn't see anything relevant.   Here's something similar to what I'm trying to go for. var w = new Window("dialog") var myImg = w.add("image", undefined, File("path/to/initialImg.jpg")); // some callback function here { myImg.image = "" // trying to set to nothing but get error: not a file // } w.show()   My current workaround is to set the image to a placeholder image that's just a black square. Better than not being able to change the image at all I suppose. ... View more

I have created a ScriptUI dialog that displays an image who's size can be manipulated by changing some settings of the native Image class like so just before the image is rendered: Image.prototype.onDraw() = function() { ... this.graphics.drawImage(this.image, xy[0], xy[1], imageSize[0], imageSize[1]) } This works perfectly, my image looks great and fits exactly how I want it to inside the dialog box. But for some reason the onDraw() method keeps getting called repeatedly and I don't know how to stop it. Whenever an image is about to be rendered I expect this method to only be called once. I can't understand why this method would keep getting executed if I have only tried to display a single image once. This infinite loop of method calling causes the performance of the dialog box to be reduced/becomes laggy as the image keeps getting redrawn 50 or so times every second. The lag isn't terrible though as the dialog window is still usable and can serve it's purpose. I just want to get rid of this infinite loop since it's causing the lag and making adding other features difficult.   Any ideas how to make it so that onDraw() only happends once? Or is there another solution? Thanks! ... View more

Is it possible to tell Illustrator to look for .jsx scripts in a place other than the default of "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2021\Presets\en_US\Scripts"? (I also tried using .jsx aliases but Illustrator doesn't recognize those).   Since I'm using git to control this folder full of scripts and other personal config files I feel it would be more appropriate if the folder was located in another place so that I could fill it up with any project files I want. Of course I could just do that with the default scripts folder anyways but it just feels wrong. ... View more

Is it possible to create a hidden folder in a Windows directory with ExtendScript? I already know how to create folders with Extendscript but not how to make them hidden as well.   I tried creating folders with a dot in the name (/.someFolder) since that's usually how Windows hides folders but that didn't work. ... View more

I have a scriptUI dialog that pops up and shows a list of file paths of images that exist in a directory. My goal is to make it so that a user can click on an item in the list which would trigger an event to set an existing ScriptUIImage object (that is already displaying an image) to show the selected image within the same dialog. In fact, I already figured this out and got it working with a single line of code, but thanks to a limitation, the size of the image cannot be set because the size property of a ScriptUIImage object is read-only for whatever reason. This means that each image displayed usually takes up the entire screen because they never get automatically resized to fit nicely inside the ScripUI dialog box. So I did some more digging and found some other methods that in theory should allow me to set the size of an image in ScriptUI, although I could be wrong.   I already have everything working execept where I actually set the ScriptUIImage object to an image. I'm pretty sure I'm having a syntax issue or similar based on the error I get when I run the script, but the error message is too ambiguous to figure out what the real error actually is.   For reference, I've been following this documentation: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/scripting/estk/javascript_tools_guide.pdf   If you do CTRL+F search then you can follow along somewhat with the following: I've been trying to use "ScriptUIImage object", "newImage()", and "drawImage()". Below is what I have so far, but it leads to this error: Error 32: Cannot execute. No matter what arguments I provide for drawImage(...) I get that error. The documentation doesn't help with this very much.   I provided a condensed version of the dialog so you can just copy paste it if you need to and it should just work. All the problems I'm having are under "// GRP_PROOFPREVIEW", where the actual logic begins where I set the image file path.   var proofVer = new Window("dialog", undefined, undefined, {closeButton: false}); proofVer.text = "Choose Proof Version"; proofVer.orientation = "column"; proofVer.alignChildren = ["center","center"]; proofVer.spacing = 25; proofVer.margins = [30,20,30,20]; var label = proofVer.add("statictext", undefined, undefined, {name: "label"}); label.text = "Choose a new PDF/JPG version to save this new proof as, or overwrite an old version..."; label.alignment = ["center","center"]; // USEROPTIONS // =========== var userOptions = proofVer.add("group", undefined, {name: "userOptions"}); userOptions.orientation = "row"; userOptions.alignChildren = ["center","top"]; userOptions.spacing = 15; userOptions.margins = 0; // GRP_PROOFPREVIEW // ================ var grp_proofPreview = userOptions.add("group", undefined, {name: "grp_proofPreview"}); grp_proofPreview.preferredSize.width = 200; grp_proofPreview.preferredSize.height = 200; grp_proofPreview.orientation = "row"; grp_proofPreview.alignChildren = ["left","center"]; grp_proofPreview.spacing = 10; grp_proofPreview.margins = 0; grp_proofPreview.alignment = ["center","center"]; var img = "C:/path/to/image/image.jpg" var scriptUIImageObject = ScriptUI.newImage(img, img, img, img) var proofPreview = grp_proofPreview.add("image", undefined, scriptUIImageObject, {name: "proofPreview"}); proofPreview.graphics.drawImage(scriptUIImageObject, 0, 0) proofVer.show();   ... View more

Using Extendscript, how do I set the selection to be a group which contains multiple objects like paths/images/whatever where only some of them are locked/hidden?   If you select such a group in Illustrator manually, there is no problem - you can see that the group is selected just fine. But, for example, if you were to select such a group in Illustrator, then run an Extendscript with only this line:   selection = selection   You will encounter this error:   error 9063: trying to select locked or hidden art This is obviously completely ridiculous because it is stating that you cannot select something even though it has already been selected beforehand.   This error is frustrating as it makes trying to set the selection of groups nearly impossible most of the time, thus disrupting my ability to write useful scripts. Is there a way around this problem? Thanks!   ... View more