Script UI breaks connection with AI Document?

Question

Last week I wrote a simple script that interacts with my document and exports layers as images.
The script works great, but I thought I'd add a nice UI to it before I release it to the world, so I spent last Saturday making the GUI.
Now, I've built my UI, and I hook it up to my existing code.
If I  trace the current "activeDocument" at the beginning of my code, before I instantiate the window, I get what you would expect:
alert("Current Window:"+.app.activeDocument);//  Traces -   Current Window:[Document myTestDoc.ai]
Now if I try to reference my document from the window click handler, or after I've closed my window I get this:
alert("Current Window:"+.app.activeDocument);//  Traces -       Current Window:[Document]
alert("Current Window:"+.app.documents[0]);//  Also Traces -   Current Window:[Document]
The script can still see the document, but suddenly it can't introspect it.
"app.documents" yields the correct number of open documents,
"app.name" yields the correct application "Adobe Illustrator"
but anything like the following will fail.
alert(app.documents[0].layers.length);
Any advice would be massively appreciated.
thanks,
-J

Answer 1

Hi Chris,
var appPath = app.path + "/Configuration/Contents/MacOS/Adobe%20Illustrator" ;
/configuration/  isn't here...
real path is:
/Contents/MacOS
where appPath is :
/Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CS4/Adobe\ Illustrator.app/
var shellSkript = new File( "~/AIjs/test.command") ;
it write a file at : User / AIjs/test.command
content:
#!/bin/sh
ps | grep -i -e illustrator.exe 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
"/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator" "/Users/MyUserName/Desktop/AIjs/test.jsx"
ps | grep -i -e illustrator.exe 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
.exe doesn't exist on mac, extension is .app (not exactly, in fact .app it's a package/folder but it appears as an application in browse, you can see inside only if you ask for "extract")
Correct run is:
/Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CS4/Adobe\ Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Illustrator
i've tried with:
ps | grep -i -e illustrator.app 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
still in shell/terminal, it return:
logout
[Operation termined]
shell/terminal is broken/termined
ps | grep -i -e Adobe\ Illustrator 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
or
ps | grep -i -e Adobe\ Illustrator 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
or again
ps | grep -i -e /Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CS4/Adobe\ Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Illustrator 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
same result...
below an exemple of  illustrator task (command: ps -A):
1072 ??         0:12.62 /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator -psn_0_299081
1072 is PID (process ID)
0:12.62 <- how many time is running
-psn_0_299081 (i don't know.. but it change at each launch)
Unfortunately i don't know what mean
| grep -i -e application.exe 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || exit
I guess just you test if illustrator task is running or not, if yes shellscript continue and execute illustrator which is run script(jsx), else it close..
So i've tried still directly in shell/terminal:
/Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CS4/Adobe\ Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Illustrator "/Users/MyUserName/Desktop/AIjs/test.jsx"
where test.jsx is simple alert("ok");
Illustrator is running, but no script it was executed in fact , it seems me that when you ask for execute script, illustrator open  (but hide) extentscript tool kit.. but may be i'm wrong..
I hope that this report could help you
if you have any suggest / questions please feel free to ask me.
art.chrome
N.B.: when i launch test.command directly in shell/terminal the result is permission denied
also:
/Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ Utilities.localized/ExtendScript\ Toolkit\ CS4/ExtendScript\ Toolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/ExtendScript\ Toolkit  /Users/MyUserName/Desktop/AIjs/test.jsx
this open ExSTK, and open test.jsx for edit, but not run...
Message was edited by: artchrome (added N.B.:)