JS CS3 Simple Dialog to change doc starting page.

Question

This example presents the user a dialog telling them the what their current document starting page is. The user can then change the value and update the starting page number. For some reason I'm getting a error Cannot handle the request because a modal dialog or alert is active. I have set myDialog.close(); before the if statement so should this not stop this error?
I have not added any checks to ensure a doc is open in ID yet.
var myDialog = new Window('dialog', ' Starting Pg No');
    myDialog.dPgNo = myDialog.add('panel',undefined,'File details');
    myDialog.dPgNo.alignChildren = 'left';
    myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo = myDialog.dPgNo.add('group');
    myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo.group = myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo.add('group');
    myDialog.dPgNo.btnGroup = myDialog.dPgNo.add('group');
    with (myDialog.dPgNo){
    myPgNo.group.orientation = 'column';
    myPgNo.group.alignChildren = 'right';
    myPgNo.group.preferredSize = [90,15];
    myPgNo.group.st  = myPgNo.group.add('statictext',undefined,'Your Doc starting page is:');
    myPgNo.et = myPgNo.add('edittext', undefined, app.activeDocument.pages[0].name)
    btnGroup.btn = btnGroup.add('button', undefined, 'Update');
    btnGroup.alignment = 'right';
myDialog.dPgNo.btnGroup.btn.onClick = function() {
myDialog.close();
var myPagestart = myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo.et.text;
if (app.activeDocument.pages[0].name != myPagestart){
app.activeDocument.pages[0].appliedSection.continueNumbering = false; //<-----------ESTK stops here with the error mentioned before.
app.activeDocument.pages[0].appliedSection.pageNumberStart = parseInt(myPagestart);
app.activeDocument.pages[0].appliedSection.sectionPrefix = "";
alert("Your document start page has been changed to "+myPagestart+".");
myDialog.show();
myDialog.show();

Answer 1

Hi John,
You don't need to close and reopen the window. Instead of dialog use 'palette' type of the window and run the script in a persistent engine, e.g. #targetengine "session".
Kasyan
#targetengine "session"
var myDialog = new Window('palette','Starting Pg No');
    myDialog.dPgNo = myDialog.add('panel',undefined,'File details');
    myDialog.dPgNo.alignChildren = 'left';
    myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo = myDialog.dPgNo.add('group');
    myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo.myGroup = myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo.add('group');
    myDialog.dPgNo.btnGroup = myDialog.dPgNo.add('group');
    with (myDialog.dPgNo){
        myPgNo.myGroup.orientation = 'column';
        myPgNo.myGroup.alignChildren = 'right';
        myPgNo.myGroup.preferredSize = [90,15];
        myPgNo.myGroup.st  = myPgNo.myGroup.add('statictext',undefined,'Your Doc starting page is:');
        myPgNo.et = myPgNo.add('edittext', undefined, app.activeDocument.pages[0].name)
        btnGroup.btn = btnGroup.add('button', undefined, 'Update');
        btnGroup.alignment = 'right';
myDialog.show();
myDialog.dPgNo.btnGroup.btn.onClick = function() {
    var myPagestart = myDialog.dPgNo.myPgNo.et.text;
    if (app.activeDocument.pages[0].name != myPagestart){
        app.activeDocument.pages[0].appliedSection.continueNumbering = false;
        app.activeDocument.pages[0].appliedSection.pageNumberStart = parseInt(myPagestart);
        app.activeDocument.pages[0].appliedSection.sectionPrefix = "";
        alert("Your document start page has been changed to "+myPagestart+".");