Applescript; Visual Basic And Javascript; The Scripts Menu - Adobe 26001360 - Illustrator CS - PC Manual

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interaction is normally suppressed in an automation environment, and some interaction might
be useful where scripts are being used in a more interactive fashion.

AppleScript

There are four possible values for the user interaction level property in AppleScript:
Property Value
never interact
interact with self
interact with local
interact with all
Using AppleScript, it is possible to send commands from one machine to another. The four
possible values allow you to control interaction based on the source of the script commands.
For example, if the application is acting as a server for remote users, it would be difficult for a
remote user to dismiss a dialog, but it would be no problem for someone sitting in front of the
machine. In this case, an interaction level of 'interact with local' would prevent dialogs from
halting remote scripts but would allow dialogs to be presented for local scripts.

Visual Basic and JavaScript

There are two possible values for the UserInteractionLevel property in Visual Basic:
Property Value
aiDontDisplayAlerts
aiDisplayAlerts
The Illustrator CS Windows scripting interface doesn't support remote script execution so it
doesn't need to provide values based on where a script is being executed.

The Scripts menu

Illustrator CS's interface includes a Scripts menu (File > Scripts) which provides quick and easy
access to your scripts. To execute a script from the Scripts menu simply select it in the menu.
The script associated with the selected menu item will be then be executed.
Result
No interaction is allowed
Interact only with scripts executed from the
scripts menu
Interact with script executed on the local
machine (including self)
Interact with all scripts
Result
No interaction is allowed
Interaction is allowed
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Scripting Illustrator