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Re: The top 4 things that bug me about InDesign scripting so far

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From: Olav_Kvern
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:01
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Hi thechrisproject,

#1--I agree, and I'm the one who put the reference documentation together. I didn't write the text, for the most part--I just pulled the descriptions that were entered into the scripting resources by the original engineers into the PDF. At this point, I think putting all three languages into the Scripting Reference was a huge error--VBScript and AppleScript users can get a better experience by just looking in their object browser/dictionary viewer.

#2--See Dave's explanation. You can do lots of things with collections you can't do with arrays. This isn't so much true in AppleScript--we basically brought the capabilities of AppleScript array handling to VBScript and JavaScript.

#3--I'm not sure what you mean by "complete lack of examples"--there are 20+ example scripts and dozens of examples in the Scripting Guide. There are no examples in the Scripting Reference because of translation-related issues.

Thanks,

Ole
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