Adobe 26001360 Scripting Guide - Page 59

59 Scripting Illustrator show a dialog asking if the data on the clipboard should be saved for other applications. You can avoid this dialog by clearing the clipboard with the statement: set the clipboard to {} Launching and quitting from Visual Basic In Visual Basic, the Activate method will bring the Illustrator application to the front if it is not already frontmost. Note that if the clipboard contains data at the time of quitting, Illustrator may show a dialog prompting the user to save the data on the clipboard for other applications. You can avoid this dialog by clearing the clipboard with the command: Clipboard.Clear Some objects that cannot be created by a script Following are some objects that cannot be created from a script: • Graphic styles • Brushes • Graphs • Mesh art • Plugin art • Spirals User Interaction Levels An application will usually present a dialog when it needs to provide feedback or request information. This is called user interaction, and is useful and expected when you are directly interacting with the application. On the other hand, when a script is interacting with an application, an unexpected dialog will bring the execution of the script to a halt until the dialog is dismissed. This can be a serious problem in an automation environment where there is typically no one present to deal with dialogs. The Illustrator CS application class contains a user interaction level property. By setting this property a script can control the level of interaction allowed during script execution. All 12 Aug 03