I want to open "Paragraph Style Options" dialogue using Script(jsx)

Question

Hi,
I have created a paragraph style using JSX.
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myParagraphStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("myParagraphStyle");
Now I want to edit my paragraph style using the "Paragraph Style Options" window. How can I open the window for myParagraphStyle using JSX?
Is there any way to do it? I don't want to manually double click the name in the list to open it.

Answer 1

@kapoor_aman27 – with a little trick we could select a distinct paragraph style in the Paragraphs Style panel.
Add a new text frame to the document, add some contents, one character is sufficient. Format its contents with your paragraph style. Set the Paragraph Styles panel to visible. Select the text in the text frame with something like that: app.select(myTextFrame.texts[0]). Remove the text frame; the paragraph style stays selected in the panel.
The next step would be to invoke the "Paragraph Style Options" panel. The id for the appropriate scriptMenuAction is 8481.
try{
app.scriptMenuActions.itemByID(8481).invoke();
}catch(e){$.writeln(e.message)};
But unfortunately this would throw an error. Something like this:
(Error message in German:)
"Mit der angeforderten Aktion wurde ein asynchrones, modales Dialogfeld geöffnet,
für das eine Vorschau erstellt werden kann.
Dies ist nicht mit der Skriptarchitektur kompatibel, daher wurde das Dialogfeld
mit der Standardschaltfläche automatisch verworfen."
(Roughly translated to English:)
"An asynchronous, modal dialog box was opened by this action.
A preview can be created with that dialog box.
This is not compatible with the scripting architecture, therefore the dialog box
with the standard button was automatically rejected."
So I see no chance to do what you want.
(Tested with inDesign CS5.5 on Mac OSX 10.6.8)
Don't know, if that behavior has changed for more recent versions of inDesign…
Uwe