AI Plugin: Window resizes after the save!!

Question

Hi Everyone,
I am working on AI plug-in which saves AI file after some validation (E.g.: Checking of Art Board Dimensions, Font n so on.) While saving the AI document, it spawns a jsx file in order to perform the validation. It saves normally if it passes the validation, but it also resizes the window along with the save. I'm unable to figure out what exactly is causing the window to get resized. I have even tried saving the ai file without spawning the jsx script, it still occurs. When I don't use the Plugin it doesn't cause the window to be resized. Please help me in fixing this issue.

Answer 1

Illustrator Version: CS3
Platform: Windows XP
Visual Studio 2008
I observed one thing, it's not the javascript code which is causing the issue, but its _spawnvp function  in the illustrator sdk(vc++ code) itself. If the applicaion window isn't maximised, it'll remain the same, only when it's maximised it tries to resize the window.
This is how I am spawning a new thread for saving the file. As i said earlier, .jsx file does some validation as well.
VC++ Code:-
sprintf_s(pathToJs, 1024, "%s\\%s.jsx", scriptPath, formatName);
    args[0] = applicationPath;
    args[1] = pathToJs;
    args[2] = NULL;
    int pid = _spawnvp(_P_NOWAIT, args[0], args);
IN JSX file :-
Validation takes place like this:-
function validate() {
try {
    if(app.activeDocument !=null) {   
        var doc = app.activeDocument;
        var fontArray = [];
//_April 26 2010_____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________
        var errors = [];
// Checks for invalid items in file
// ENH-88 validation for migrated AD
    var layerCount = doc.layers.length;
    for (i = 0; i<layerCount; i++ ) {
        //alert(doc.layers[i].name);
        if ( doc.layers[i].name == "Layer 1") {
            errors.push("- Incorrect template" );
    var iii;
    var placeItemFlag=true;
    var rasterItemFlag=true;
    var groupItemFlag=true;
    for (iii=0 ; iii<doc.pageItems.length ; iii++) {
            switch ( doc.pageItems[iii].typename ) {
                case "PlacedItem":
                    if ( ! doc.pageItems[iii].embedded ) {
                        errors.push(doc.name + " has linked file " + doc.pageItems[iii]);
                    if(doc.pageItems[iii].overprint == true) {
                        errors.push("- Over print found in the following object : " + doc.pageItems[iii].typename);
                break;
                case "RasterItem":
                if ( ! doc.pageItems[iii].embedded ) {
                        errors.push(doc.name + " has linked file " + doc.pageItems[iii]);
                    //INT-1161
                if(doc.pageItems[iii].overprint == true && rasterItemFlag) {
                        errors.push("- Over print found in the raster item");
                        rasterItemFlag=false;
                break;
                case "CompoundPathItem" :
                break;
                case "GraphItem" :
                break;
                case "GroupItem" :
                break;
                case "LegacyTextItem" :
                    errors.push("- Legacy text found ");
                break;
                case "MeshItem" :
                break;
                case "PathItem" :
                //INT-1161
                if(doc.pageItems[iii].overprintFill == true && placeItemFlag ) {
                        errors.push("- Over print found in the image");
                        placeItemFlag=false;
                break;
                case "PlacedItem" :
                break;
                case "PluginItem" :
                break;
                case "RasterItem" :
                    if(doc.pageItems[iii].overprint == true) {
                        errors.push("- Over print found in the following object : " + doc.pageItems[iii].typename);
                break;
                case "SymbolItem" :
                break;
                case "TextFrame" :
//Modified by Binu T V to catch the object undefined exception in "doc.pageItems[iii].textRange"______________________________________
               try   
                    if(doc.pageItems[iii].textRange.length > 0) {
                        var itemType = doc.pageItems[iii];
                        if ( doc.pageItems[iii].converted == false) {
                            errors.push("- Legacy text found ");   
                        else if(doc.pageItems[iii].textRange.overprintFill == true || doc.pageItems[iii].textRange.overprintStroke == true) {
                            errors.push("- Text over print found for - " + doc.pageItems[iii].contents);
                catch(e)
                        var itemType = doc.pageItems[iii];
                        if ( doc.pageItems[iii].converted == false) {
                            if(!String(errors).search("- Legacy text found ") == 0)
                                errors.push("- Legacy text found ");   
                        else if(doc.pageItems[iii].textRange.overprintFill == true || doc.pageItems[iii].textRange.overprintStroke == true) {
                            if(!String(errors).search("- Text over print found " ) == 0)   
                                errors.push("- Text over print found for - " + doc.pageItems[iii].contents);
                break;
// Checks for illegal fonts
    fontArray=readFontList();
        var noOfText = doc.textFrames.length;
        for ( i = 0; i < noOfText; i++ ) {
            var CS3Text = doc.textFrames[i];
            var parentLayer = CS3Text.layer.name;
            // ENH-88 Removed the condition which checks for work layer when checking fonts
            if ( CS3Text.textRange.length >0) {
            // Check if illegal font
                var fontFound = CS3Text.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.name;
                if (fontExist(fontFound , fontArray) == false) {
                    errors.push("- Illegal font " + fontFound + "  " + CS3Text.contents);
        } and so on.......
After the validation, I save it like this :-
dest = new File(app.activeDocument.path + '/' + newName);
            // INT-922
            var initialModifiedDate= File(dest).modified;
            if(suffix == "pdf")
                //saveFileToPDF(dest);
                doc.saveAs(dest, options);
            }else
                //exportFileToAI (dest);
                doc.saveAs(dest, options);