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X-platform installer, setup and documentation for the Tightener project
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Feature: embed Tightener into UXP #18

Open zwettemaan opened 2 years ago

zwettemaan commented 2 years ago

Tightener can serve as a way for allow UXP easy access to existing or newly built application DOMs. By integrating Tightener into UXP as a dynamic library, UXP could be enhanced. InDesign is low-hanging fruit, as the whole InDesign DOM is available in Tightener, and TQL is 'just another DOM-enabled language' on a par with ExtendScript, VBScript or AppleScript.

zwettemaan commented 2 years ago

The Tightener 0.0.6 plugin for InDesign 2023 has support for UXPScript.

In the UXPScript context you can call a function app.evalTQL() which evaluates TQL scripts.

In the TQL context you can call a function evalUxpScript() which will evaluate a UXPScript.

See the rru and rru.tql files which allow us to run UXPScript in InDesign from the command line.

I intend to also add a more generic solution so all UXP-based automation environments would have access to Tightener.