Acrobat Batch Plug-in and accessing user input parameters

Question

I have written a plug-in for acrobat 9 and need to retreive the value stored in the "select output location" field from the default "edit batch sequence" dialog.
How can I get a handle to the "edit batch sequence" dialog and the dialog's user input fields and their respective values?

Answer 1

I don't know if this will help you out, but remember that a batch sequence (.sequ) is finally just a plain-text file.
If you know the name of the batch and the location of the sequences folder, you can probably write a small tool to read it in, parse it and figure out the output folder yourself.
For example, here's a very basic batch sequence I've created. It just calls a JS method on each file:
<</Commands [/c <<    /0 [/c <<        /Config [/c <<            /UIPolicy [/i 3]
>>]
        /HandlerName [/a /JavaScript]
        /Params [/c <<            /ScriptCode [/t (collectFilePaths\(this\);)]
            /ScriptName [/t ()]
>>]
        /Title [/t (Execute JavaScript)]
>>]
>>]
/Input [/c <<    /FileVariation [/i 1]
    /PreselectedFolderPath [/c <<        /DI [/s (/C/Batch In)]
        /DIText [/t (/C/Batch In)]
        /FS [/a /DOS]
>>]
    /SourceFileOptions [/c <<        /Formats [/c <<>>]
>>]
>>]
/Output [/c <<    /AddToBaseName [/b false]
    /DontOverwrite [/b false]
    /FileVariation [/i 2]
    /InsertAfterBaseName [/t ()]
    /InsertBeforeBaseName [/t ()]
    /OptimizePDF [/b true]
    /PreselectedFolderPath [/c <<        /DI [/s (/C/Batch Out)]
        /DIText [/t (/C/Batch Out)]
        /FS [/a /DOS]
>>]
    /PresetName [/t (Standard)]
    /RunPDFOptimizer [/b false]
>>]
>>
The input and output folders ("C:\Batch In" and "C:\Batch Out\") are plainly visible in the code.