Learning to script Adobe products - Javascript or ExtendScript?

Hi there,
I know that ExtendScript is a dialect of Javascript, so if I want to learn scripting, should I first study Javascript or just plough straight into ExtendScript?
Regards,
David

I just plowed into extend script and got a reference book of javascript. Trying to learn javascript first might be confusing in that most if not all the references for it are for web application.

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I'd like to learn InDesign scripting. I have very little experience. Where can I start? Where can I progress?
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Hi,
Im new too in the developpement of javascript extension … But I can explain to you witch documentation I readed:
– First, you have to know how to developpe scripts with JavaScript (a progamming language)
Do you have some knowledge in programming?
– then you can read the Adobe Javascript Documentation, Adobe give many examples of scripts
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/indesign/sdk.html
– use the application ExtendScript Toolkit to write your scripts
I would like to do this in the following order:
– learn a programming language like Javascript
– read the documentation and follow the examples
Bye

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I was reading an artical on Slate on CodeAcademy. If you didn't know it, it's Code Year: Time for people who don't know how to learn. Anyway, I'm trying it out (it's Java Script) and it's not tooooooo bad. I was wondering if there were any like places where I can learn how to program in/for Apple. It would be nice to learn how to use the more advanced features of my iMac and other Apple products.
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I'm only just now learning C++ and the C++ library. I've not been much of a programmer in the past, and not sure how far necessity will now take me into the developer world, but apart from learning the Script editor, or to type 'help' into the terminal for a general introduction to programming, or to typing into the Safari 'Develop' menu to try out .html or javascript,
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I have a couple of links in my Adobe AIR JavaScript app that are part of the app's UI, which when clicked are causing the app to be loaded into a new tab in my default browser.
This is only happening with two links (Save and Cancel on a form), and not all links in my UI. The two links that are having the issue are defined in an external HTML file that I load a runtime and connect to the DOM. The links that are defined in the main HTML file that is loaded when the app starts up do not have this problem.
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This app shows content created by users, which can contain links to external web sites. To get the external links to open in the browser (as opposed to inside my Adobe AIR window), I am doing the following in a script tag in the head of my main HTML file:
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I've found that if I set window.htmlLoader.navigateInSystemBrowser = false, then the issue with the Save and Cancel links described above goes away. However, I need to have window.htmlLoader.navigateInSystemBrowser = true so that external links in the user content open up in the browser, not in Adobe AIR.
Another piece of evidence is that the Save and Cancel links only incorrectly open a browser the first time you click on them after launching the app. Subsequent clicks work fine and do not have the issue.
Any ideas on why the links that are plugged into the DOM after app start up have this issue, and only the first time you click on them?

Not sure where this comes from, but I suspect it has something to do with the security restrictions that AIR has in place, related to dynamic JS evaluation after the document is loaded.
Make sure you read http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/html/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7f0e.html#WS 5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7ef8
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Is Captivate the Adobe product I need?

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Explicit History Code Plug-in for Adobe Products?

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I am currently completing my final semester of architecture school, and have been learning several softwares to assist in design. I encountered an idea that could greatly aid Adobe products.
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ONE
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http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2010/08/help-documents-for-creative-suite-5-pdf -and-html.html
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Buy the appropriate book - Adobe Premiere Pro Classroom in a Book - for the version you have
THREE
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/913334
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/845731
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/4200840
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Adobe Acrobat JavaScript - Alles in Englisch, gibt´s nichts auf Deutsch ?

Hallo,
ich würde mir gerne Adobe Acrobat JavaScript beibringen, allerdings sind
fast alle Bücher, Foren, Dokumentationen etc. auf Englisch, gibt´s nicht´s
in Deutsch ?
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Uli

> Über VBA z.B. gibt´s massenweise deutsche Literatur, Foren, etc., warum über Adobe Acrobat JavaScript nicht ?
Wahrscheinlich weil der Bedarf dafür sehr gering ist.
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seeing that flash is capable of making sosmething like this
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> I was hoping it was an Adobe product called through the
javascript -- some
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>
> Is it definitely javascript alone?
>

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