Storing an object within an object

Question

insertLabel is great, but I have the need to store an object (not an InDesign object, but just a custom one) for later reference with a TextFrame. I thought about serializing the object, but javascript doesn't have a native serialize function, so before I embark down that route, is there an alternative method I could use to do this?
thanks

Answer 1

Here is a snippet from my Package for Archive script.
At start, the script I extracts the previously stored settings with eval() method, if the script is run for the 1st time -- creates default settings.
function GetSettings() {
    var mySettings = eval(app.extractLabel("Kas_PackageForArchive_Settings_ver3.0"));
    if (mySettings == undefined) {
        mySettings = { copyFontsCheckBox:false, copyGraphicsCheckBox:true, updateGraphicsCheckBox:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, ignorePreflightErrorsCheckBox:true, createReportCheckBox:false, createLogCheckBox:true };
    return mySettings;
Then a dialog box appears where a user selects settings and after he/she clicks OK, the settings are converted to string with toSource() and stored as string with insertLabel() method.
    if (myShowDialog== 1) {
        var myResult = {};
        myResult.copyFontsCheckBox = myCopyFontsCheckBox.value;
        myResult.copyGraphicsCheckBox = myCopyGraphicsCheckBox.value;
        myResult.updateGraphicsCheckBox = myUpdateGraphicsCheckBox.value;
        if (myInDesignVersion == 6) myResult.includeHiddenLayers = myIncludeHiddenLayersCheckBox.value;
        myResult.ignorePreflightErrorsCheckBox = myIgnorePreflightErrorsCheckBox.value;
        myResult.createReportCheckBox = myCreateReportCheckBox.value;
        myResult.createLogCheckBox = myCreateLogCheckBox.value;
        myResult.folder = myFolder;
        app.insertLabel("Kas_PackageForArchive_Settings_ver3.0", myResult.toSource());
    return myResult;
In other words, the setting are stored in a custom object which can be serialized with toSource() and then restored with eval().
Kasyan