User-Interface Tools

Adobe provides the ScriptUI component, which works with the ExtendScript JavaScript interpreter to provide JavaScript scripts with the ability to create and interact with user interface elements. It provides an object model for windows and user-interface control elements within an Adobe application.

• The first part of this chapter describes the features and programming model, with details of how you can use JavaScript to build a user interface with ScriptUI objects.

• ScriptUI object reference provides reference details of the objects, properties, methods, and creation parameters. You can also choose the ScriptUI Classes dictionary from the Help menu in the ExtendScript Toolkit to inspect the objects in the Object Model Viewer.