Re: Wait for user to select an object

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From: Eric
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:11

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Here's a massively kludgey way to do it in AS, but it involves a dialog box popping up every 3 seconds if they don't select text in time... :-/



 
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2" 
	tell active document 
		set stillWaiting to true 
		set mySel to "" 
		repeat while stillWaiting 
			try 
				set mySel to text of selection 
			end try 
			if length of mySel > 0 then 
				set stillWaiting to false 
			else 
				display dialog "Select some text" 
				--Stop running the script for 3 seconds to give them a chance to do it 
				delay 3 
			end if 
		end repeat

		display dialog mySel 
	end tell 
end tell

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