I want to test to see if a window containing "Untitled" exists in InDesign. The test works if the windows are "floating" but not if they are "tabbed" (as shown in image, below).
This is the action I'm using to test. Is there another way to test for the existence of a "tabbed" window in InDesign?
You could have the macro Float all the windows first.
Do your actions.
Consolidate them again.
Like this:
Another way could be to script InDesign.
It can be controlled with AppleScript and JavaScript.
I found this page: https://macgrunt.com/tag/repeat-loops/
And modified a the sample to work with my version of InDesign.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
set mgList to {}
repeat with mgDoc in every document
set active document to mgDoc
set end of mgList to name of active document
end repeat
end tell
return mgList
It returns a list of the names of the open documents.
But you then need a way to process them afterwards. And my AppleScript or JavaScript skills are not good enough to help here.
Great ideas! Thanks for the suggestions.
That's because windows and tabs are difference things. One window can contain many tabs. Most apps have a different object model for tab than windows.
I don't have InDesign, so I can't develop or test a script for it, but here's an analogous script for Safari:
tell application "Safari"
tell every window
set tabList to name of every tab
end tell
set untitledTab to first tab of every window whose name starts with "Untitled"
end tell
Try this in Script Debugger 7. In SD7 it is very easy to explore the app's object model (called an "SDEF"). If you don't have SD7, I highly recommend it. If you decided not to buy, it will gracefully downgrade to the free SD7 Lite -- both much, much better than Apple's Script Editor.
Change "Safari" to "InDesign", and try it -- 50/50 that it will work. IAC you can open the InDesign object model to find out about "tabs", which will be a "class".
EDIT: Sorry, @JimmyHartington, I didn't see your script until after I had posted.
@JimmyHartington, I changed your script block to use the forum syntax for script blocks:
Just insert your script between the lines with the triple backquotes:
To get syntax highlighting, then use the keyword in lower case for that language, like:
applescript
javascript
html
Here is a macro that will paste the script on the clipboard into the forum in the proper format:
Using an older version of InDesign, I was able to get this working by targeting the Window menu instead of a window title, so maybe this will work for @rcraighead in the newer version of InDesign.
Select Untitled Window in InDesign.png
Thanks.
I seem to remember that there once was a button for this in the interface. But I could not find one.
Thanks all. So many good options!