Defining event handlers for renaming, moving, copying and deleting of files.

Question

Hi every one.
I had created a tool for InDesign CS6 written using Javascript to manipulate portions of text in nested way by marking them with small non-printing small anchored text frames contains sequenced numbers and storing these portions as snippets in a spicific folder beside the InDesign documents.
This tool is open source and free of charge, the only this that I want from you (after downloading) as a user to feedback and as a developer to improve it and join me.
sourceforge.net/projects/livesnippets
My question is not about this but I want to trace when the user rename, move, copy or delete a file of these snippets or any container folder and interact according to that by reserving the links between snippet files and their instances which interspersed in InDesign documents.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Here is an example of using Bridge events… What this scrript will do if you add it to Bridge scripts… is set *all* indesign snippets in the folders you browse to… to be locked/readonly… This means that users will get an extra dialog if they want to delete the file… Finder or Bridge… You can't just rename the file Finder or Bridge… and Bridge's Batch Rename will only function if the user makes copies to new location… You could set this property using the File Object with indesign…
#target bridge
onDocLoaded = function( event ) {
    if ( event.object instanceof Document && event.type == 'loaded' ) {
        lockIDSnippets();
        return { handled: true };
function lockIDSnippets() {
    var i, count, doc, thum;
    doc = app.document;
    count = doc.visibleThumbnailsLength;
    for ( var i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {
        thum = doc.visibleThumbnails[i];
        if ( /\.idms/.test( thum.spec.name ) ) {
            thum.spec.readonly = true;
// Register event handler
app.eventHandlers.push( { handler: onDocLoaded } );