I am working on automating one of our more tedious graphic types, a typed up deposition, and ran into a snag. I have a dialog box pop up that the user populates. They put in the Deponent's name, position, and then I have a large area for them to paste in the text they would like to insert into the graphic. Unfortunately it only pastes the first line of the text. Is there a way to input more than one line into a dialog box? Initial searches lead me to believe that prompt inputs can only be one line, but I have to imagine there is a way. Any ideas? Not having any issues putting the text in the box, the issue is pasting into the dialog.
Thanks!
Here is a trimmed down version of the portion of the dialog I am having issues with:
The content GRP is the area I was planning to use for the multi-line text blocks.
// Export dialog this.dlg = new Window('dialog', 'Create new depo layer'); // PANEL to hold options var msgPnl = this.dlg.add('panel', undefined, 'Create new deposition layer'); // content GRP var contentGrp = msgPnl.add('group', undefined, '') contentGrp.oreintation = 'row'; contentGrp.alignment = [ScriptUI.Alignment.LEFT, ScriptUI.Alignment.TOP] var contentSt = contentGrp.add('statictext', undefined, 'Content:'); contentSt.size = [100,20] var contentEt = contentGrp.add('edittext', undefined, ''); contentEt.size = [ 300,500 ]; var btnPnl = this.dlg.add('group', undefined, ''); btnPnl.orientation = 'row' btnPnl.cancelBtn = btnPnl.add('button', undefined, 'Cancel', {name:'cancel'}); btnPnl.cancelBtn.onClick = function() {this.dlg.close() }; // OK button btnPnl.okBtn = btnPnl.add('button', undefined, 'Create Single Depo Layer', {name:'ok'}); btnPnl.okBtn.onClick = function() { //add the textPull content in var textPullBox = docRef.textFrames.getByName("textPull"); if(contentEt.text != ''){ textPullBox.contents = contentEt.text; } var paraStyle; if (contentEt.text.match(/Q./) || contentEt.text.match(/A./)){ paraStyle = docRef.paragraphStyles.getByName("DepoPull"); } else{ paraStyle = docRef.paragraphStyles.getByName("TextPull"); } //apply the paragraph style for(tp=0; tp<textPullBox.paragraphs.length-1; tp++) { paraStyle.applyTo(textPullBox.paragraphs[tp], true); } //close dialog box this.dlg.close(); }; this.dlg.show();