InDesign JavaScript "help" file

I have used Jongware's InDesign JavaScript help files and have really found them essential. I am grateful for his efforts to make these available.
I am primarily a FrameMaker user and Adobe is going to provide ExtendScript support for the next version of FrameMaker. The FrameMaker object model is shown in the ExtendScript Toolkit CS5 Object Model Viewer. I would like to do something similar to what Jongware did in extracting the data to a series of HTML files. I am having difficulty figuring out where this data is stored. I can't find an XML file that contains the data. I am mainly posting this here because I haven't been able to contact Jongware directly. Thanks in advance for any help.
Rick

Oops :-) Yeah to avoid sp@m I don't really want to post my mail addresses on public sites.
I sent you a P.M., I'm hugely interested in what you are planning!

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Hi everyone. The new user-friendly Javascript Help files have been updated with a CS5 version. Download link on its homepage: http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html
Only in Windows CHM-format for the moment (does anyone at all use the HTML version? If not ... well ... I dunno...).
I spotted a few additions and changes in the Help file -- apart from support for the new commands, obviously -- such as proper Superclass referencing, and a few objects with Class properties, which apparently are something else than Instance properties. Hey, don't ask me. I only converted the file.
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* "PlaceGun" -- finally, a way to 'load' the gun with text created solely by scripting?
* "BeforeCreate", "AfterCreate" (and a few more similar): trap the event for (possibly) every object you can place into ID!
* A new Scripting Preference: measurementUnit. Apparently, this is "the measurement unit used during script processing" and, ya-hey!, we scripters don't have to awkwardly read, save, change, and restore, the measurement units anymore!

Minor cosmetic updates to the CHM version:
* The bullet was shown as a decoded UTF-8 value on Robin Lu's Mac CHM viewer. Changed from its Unicode value to "•" (quite the trick, as Saxon firmly objects to HTML stuff like that!). There may be more 'mangled' characters remaining, dunno if it's worth the trouble hunting them down one by one tho'.
* Contrary to what I stated before, the Help does contain a few examples -- in the JavaScript Base Classes section. Rather terse, so for the experienced scripter they are hardly relevant; but perhaps newbies can put them to good use. They are marked by a pretty-in-pink background.
* The list of parents in the Hierarchy view was not sorted alphabetically -- fixed. (I've finally started using XSLT 2.0 functions. Yay!)
* Lists of multiple object datatypes were not sorted alphabetically -- fixed, by sorting them on the comma and the word "or". However, some of the more incomprehensible descriptions now got just a bit more incomprehensible ...
E.g., common in "resize" functions: "Can accept: Array of 2 Reals, AnchorPoint enumerator or Array of Arrays of 2 Reals, CoordinateSpaces enumerators, AnchorPoint enumerators, BoundingBoxLimits enumerators or Long Integers." I have no idea how to mentally parse that, let alone have my computer do it.
* Added more and more hyperlinks. I think most of ScriptUI's internal links to "Button", "Window", etc. which also have a 'regular' UI counterpart finally point to ScriptUI's own objects. Hard to check, really.
* Also added hyperlinks for the common objects "Boolean", "String", "Number", and "Array" -- just to be complete!
* The total number of internal hyperlinks now tops out above 104,000! (And no, I didn't check all of them.)
Direct link to the CHM version: http://www.jongware.com/binaries/idcs5js_chm_3.0.3.zip
(the minor version number jump from .1 to .3 is because of a lot of testing before I got everything right -- again...)
The HTML version follows, somehow, somewhere, some time later. (HTML users: is that full function index of any use?)
* For some reason the page for the "Global classes" was interpreted in the CHM contents as a 'book', rather than a regular help page, and you could not navigate to there! (A search for 'inifinity' still landed you on that page.) Fixed by hand, but I wonder why this happened ...
Oh darn it! I found out why that happened, re-wrote part of my XSLT transform to fix it and broke lots of other things. Today, I fixed that, and now I see this doesn't work anymore -- again!
You will be expecting a 0.4 version shortly, then.

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Welcome to the Sun forums.
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i can display indesign script files in tree view. what is my question is if i click the indesign javascript file i want
to execute. that means i want to interact with java swing to indesign cs3. How it is possible could anyone tell me.>About the only way you will be able to get interaction between a JTree and JavaScript is to put the JTree in a JApplet and put that applet in a web page that also references the scripts.
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And a few points before closing:
- All sentences should start with a single upper case letter. This helps the reader to quickly scan text, looking for ways they can help. You would not want to make it harder for people who are trying to help, would you?
- The word 'I' should be always upper case, always.
- ..and it is JTree, not Jtree. Please be very careful with class names so we can all be sure you refer to J2SE classes, and not some 3rd part class about which we know nothing and do not support.
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This works for Reader. Where can I find the one for Pro? Or, where can I find the syntax so I can create my own?
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-help-files-offline-reader.html

To answer my own question....
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http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/en/pdf/acrobat_reference.pdf
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+-File
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+-NewDocument
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+-ScanMenu
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   +-ScanPreset3
   +-ScanPreset4
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+-Web2PDF:OpnURL
+-ImageConversion:Clipboard
+-
+-NewDocCombineFiles
+-CreateMultiplePDFFiles
+-
+-AcroForm:Forms_CreateNewForm
+-endCreatePDFGroup
+-NewDocCreateCollection
+-
+-Save
+-SaveAs
+-SaveAsSubmenu
+-ReduceFileSize
+-DIGSIG:SaveAndAuthenticate
+-SaveAsExtendedSubmenu
   +-Annots:ReaderEnableCTT
   +-Annots:ReaderEnable
   +-DIGSIG:UBDoc
+-PDFOptimizer
+-endSaveGroup
+-Email
+-SPAObject 23
+-SPAObject 24
+-
+-
+-
+-Revert
+-Close
+-endFormDataGroup
+-GeneralInfo
+-endDocInfoGroup
+-Print
+-endPrintGroup
+-RecentFile1
+-RecentFile2
+-endRecentFileGroup
+-Quit
+-Edit
+-Undo
+-Redo
+-endUndoGroup
+-Cut
+-Copy
+-Paste
+-Clear
+-endEditGroup
+-SelectAll
+-DeselectAll
+-endSelectGroup
+-CopyFileToClipboard
+-endOleGroup
+-TouchUp:EditDocument
+-
+-SelectGraphics
+-
+-Spelling:Spelling
+-Spelling:Check Spelling
+-Spelling:Edit Dictionary
+-LookUpWord
+-endLookUpGroup
+-Find
+-FindSearch
+-endFindGroup
+-GeneralPrefs
+-View
+-Rotate
+-RotateCW
+-RotateCCW
+-GoTo
+-FirstPage
+-PrevPage
+-NextPage
+-LastPage
+-GoToPage
+-endPageNavGroup
+-GoBack
+-GoForward
+-
+-PageLayout
+-SinglePage
+-OneColumn
+-TwoPages
+-TwoColumns
+-endPageLayoutSubGroup
+-ShowGaps
+-ShowCoverPage
+-
+-AutoScroll
+-ZoomSubMenu
+-ZoomTo
+-Zoom
+-ZoomDrag
+-
+-ActualSize
+-FitPage
+-FitWidth
+-FitHeight
+-FitVisible
+-endFitGroup
+-PanZoom
+-Loupe
+-
+-Reflow
+-endGoToGroup
+-SelectUICustomization
+-UICustomizationDefaultView
+-
+-CreateUICustomization
+-ManageUICustomizations
+-
+-9BD7AB5158C920C2F8053A0BC9B41D2
+-
+-FindMoreUICustomizations
+-endOfCustomizeSeparator
+-TaskPanesSectionStart
+-_BasicToolsPane
+-Tools_Content
+-Tools_Pages
+-Tools_InteractiveObjects
+-Tools_Forms
+-Tools_ActionWizard
+-Tools_TextRecognition
+-Tools_Protection
+-Tools_DocProcessing
+-Tools_PrintProduction
+-Tools_JavaScript
+-Tools_Accessibility
+-Tools_Analysis
+-_BasicEchoSignPane
+-_BasicCommentPane
+-TaskPaneSectionEnd
+-ShowHideSubMenu
+-Navigation
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   +-ShowHideBookmarks
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   +-ShowHideDestinations
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   +-ShowHideModelTree
   +-ShowHideOrderPanel
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   +-ShowHideSignatures
   +-ShowHideTagsPanel
   +-endShowHideWindowsGroup2
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+-HoldoverToolbars
+-ShowHideMenuBar
+-
+-RulersAndGridsGroup
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   +-SnapToGrid
   +-ShowRulers
   +-ShowGuides
   +-Wireframe
+-ShowInfo
+-
+-ReadingMode
+-FullScreenMode
+-endFullScreenGroup
+-Annots:ReviewTracker
+-
+-ReadAloud
+-ADBE:ReadOutLoudOnOff
+-ADBE:ReadAloudStart
+-ADBE:ReadAloudToEnd
+-ADBE:ReadAloudPauseResume
+-ADBE:ReadAloudStop
+-DIGSIG:CompareDocuments
+-Window
+-NewWindow
+-
+-Cascade
+-Tile
+-TileHorizontal
+-TileVertical
+-MinimizeAll
+-endWindowLayoutGroup
+-SplitWindow
+-SpreadsheetSplit
+-WindowMenuSeparator
+-
+-Help
+-HelpUserGuide
+-Adobe Acrobat XI Pro Help
+-endGuideGroup
+-About
+-AboutAdobeExtensions
+-endAboutPlugInGroup
+-
+-AMTDynamic1
+-startEBookServicesGroup
+-endEBookServicesGroup
+-OnlineSupport
+-KnowledgeBase
+-AdobeExpertSupport
+-AdobeUserCommunity
+-AccessOnline
+-
+-SystemInformation
+-DetectAndRepair
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ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Adobe Systems Incorporated
All rights reserved.
NOTICE: Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file
in accordance with the terms of the Adobe license agreement
accompanying it. If you have received this file from a source other
than Adobe, then your use, modification, or distribution of it
requires the prior written permission of Adobe.
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// app.addMenuItem({ cName: "Adobe Acrobat XI Pro Help", cParent: "Help", cExec: "fTDocs1()", nPos: 0});
/********************************    Functions     *********************************************/
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function fTDocs2()
    {app.openDoc("/C/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 11.0/Acrobat/Help/acrobat_reference_FR.pdf");};
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Install the PDF help files to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Help
HTH

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Million thanks. The link is:
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