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  dropdownlist error in script UI

  Posted by Anton Schleitre on August 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm

  Hi there,
  I’m new to scripting and wrote a script that actually does everything I want. The only problem I got is that the dropdownlist of my UI only shows it’s contents about 90% of the time. 10% of the time the dropdownlist is just empty. I have tested it with CS4 and the newest CC2015 version. I am clueless since it works most of the time. Maybe someone sees something I don’t. Most of the time when the error occurs is when I run the script for the first time. If I run it directly afterwards it works just fine. Any help would be more than appreciated. Best Regards, Anton

  This is the code:

  (after some checks for user mistakes, function "startScript" is being called)

  var maskList = new Array;
  maskList[0] = "Like in Project Folder";
  maskList[1] = "Randomly";

  function startScript (effectName){
  var myWin = new Window ("palette", "create Object", undefined);
  myWin.orientation = "column";

  var groupOne = myWin.add("group", undefined, "GroupOne");
  groupOne.orientation = "row";

  groupOne.add ("statictext", undefined, "Please select the order of footage");
  var orderNumber = groupOne.add ("dropdownlist", undefined, maskList);
  orderNumber.selection = 0;

  var groupTwo = myWin.add("group", undefined, "GroupTwo");
  groupTwo.orientation = "row";

  var checkboxOne = groupTwo.add("checkbox", undefined, "adjusted Start point");
  checkboxOne.value = true;

  var groupThree = myWin.add("group", undefined, "GroupThree");
  groupThree.orientation = "row";

  groupThree.add ("statictext", undefined, "Apply\""+effectName+"\"");
  var PAButton = groupThree.add ("button", undefined, "Go!");

  myWin.center ();
  myWin.show ();

  PAButton.onClick = function caller (){
//(main script, which works fine)
}
}

  Anton Schleitre replied 10 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  August 22, 2016 at 6:51 pm

  I can’t get it to fail. I notice that maskList is defined outside the function, which will work as long as some other part of the script isn’t messing it up. Other than that, I don’t know.

  Dan
• 

  Anton Schleitre

  August 22, 2016 at 8:05 pm

  Thank you for your time investigating this, Dan. It’s very much appreciated.

  maskList is not touched other than what you saw. It’s strange…

  Thanks again, Dan!

  Best Regards
  Anton

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