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Article #20755Selection Indicator on the blink
From: Dave Saunders
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:54
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:54
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I've used a combination of REALbasic and AppleScript to create a palette for ID 2 that was working to my complete satisfaction but now is on the blink. Here's how it looks when the current selection is an insertion point. In this case, it works properly: And here's the script that gets the class of the selection that I'm displaying (first 10 characters thereof) at the bottom of the palette: on run with timeout of 1 second try tell application "InDesign 2.0.1" set theClass to class of selection as list if (count of theClass) > 1 then return "multiple" else try return characters 1 through 10 of (theClass as text) as string on error return theClass as text end try end if end tell on error return "none" end try end timeout return "Timed Out" end run This script runs on a timer that's set to repeat every 1250 milliseconds (hence the 1 second time-out). I'll show the problem in the first message. Dave
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