Bridge Javascript examples?

I am a javascript beginner and while there is a lot of technical info in the Bridge JavaScript Reference, there are very few examples. I could really use a few good examples of how to apply js to Bridge. Is there someplace where folks are posting their scripts for bridge yet? Or perhaps some of the experts could post a few more examples here for us noobs?

Sample scripts are posted at:
http://share.studio.adobe.com/axBrowseSubmit.asp?c=222
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package wkw.beans.ui;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
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    implements ActionListener
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    private static final int LABEL_COUNT = 7;
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    private transient JLabel dayOfWeekLabel[];
    private transient JButton selectedButton;
    private transient JComboBox monthChoice;
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    private transient int selectedYear;
    private transient int selectedDay;
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    private transient int cellWidth;
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    private transient JButton prevYearButton;
    private transient JButton nextMonthButton;
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        selectedDate = new Date();
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        cellWidth = fontmetrics.stringWidth("WWW") + 10;
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        headerPanel.add(prevMonthButton);
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Adobe Workflow Automation Scripts

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This Keyword system was working earlier, that is I could shut off the computer and come back to open Bridge and the keywords were there.
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I have no idea what iniciated a change of from persistent keywords to loosing them all in the past. But at least cognitively, I now have a clear process for getting them to show up again on start.
Thanks again for your reply.

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I return back to San Francisco and set my notebook's time zone back to Pacific Time. In Lightroom, the Date Time Original of that photo is now 3pm. In Bridge, it still gives a Date Time Original of 6pm.
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Try it for yourself. Take a look at the Date Time Original of any given photo in Lightroom, change the Time Zone on your PC, and see the Time change for yourself.
Since Bridge and Lightroom are both Adobe products, I have to wonder why they display EXIF times differently. Is this a bug? Or intentional?

I have been als been plagued by LR displaying the capture time to be, say 3 AM (03:00), when I know I took the picture at 1 PM (13:00). I decided to try and see why this happens. With the help of Phil Harvey's exiftool, I can see that my Canon cameras embed the time into the EXIF data without any time zone information i.e.: Date/Time Taken = 2008:04:02 16:09:23.
Here is what I found:
If the image is now edited with Bridge, the information is changed to: Date/Time Taken = 2008:04:02 16:09:23-08:00 (time zone of the editing computer for the date the image was made. In this case the date was before daylight savings time started.)
When edited with GeoSetter (good for adding GPS information) the information is changed to: Date/Time Taken = 2008:04:02 16:09:23+02:00 (time zone for Cairo where the picture was taken.)
Lastly edited with LR, the information is changed to: Date/Time Taken = 2008:04:02 16:09:23-08:00
When the above images are viewed in LR, using PDT, they display the time as 17:09:23 except for the image tagged with the Cairo time, which displays 07:09:23. If the computer's time zone is changed the displayed time changes accordingly.
If the images are displayed with Photoshop CS3 all the times are correctly displayed as 16:09:23 as one would expect.
It appears that the factoring in of the time zone into the displayed time was a conscious decision by the Adobe designers. A decision that several of us are not happy with.

Pass parameter from javascript to backing method

Hello professional ,
i have an ADF (JSF page) there is news bar on it when the user click on any news link i want to pass the news parameter to backing method .
The problem is how can i pass javascript value to commandLink jsf tags to setActionListener sub Tags:
<tr:commandLink id="openNewsActionLink"
text="#{screenLabels.NEWS_DETAILS}"
inlineStyle="display:none; visibility: hidden;"
action="#{publishedNewsBackedBean.openNewsDeatilsAction}">
<tr:setActionListener from="6"
to="#{publishedNewsBackedBean.selectedID}"/>
</tr:commandLink>
i want to pass the from value from java script code how can i do it and if i can not do it directly what is the work around for it.
Regards
Mohd79

Hi,
assign an ID to the inputText and use the JavaScript Document Object Model to access it. Also use a good browser with good DOM source viewer to browse the HTML page your JSP creates at runtime Firefox and Chrome have good source viewers.
there are truckloads of JavaScript examples on the Internet.
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Brenden

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