Question

I use a script which opens the story editor like this:

app.menuActions.itemByID(119793).invoke();

How can I close it programmatically? How can I detect whether it’s opened or closed?

Answer 1

A story editor window may be closed with its close method.

Here is a function which closes the story editor window if it’s open. It tests for the presence of a zoom property on the window to determine whether the window is a story editor or not (Thanks Loic Aigon for this idea)… There must be a better way of doing this but I haven’t found it.

function closeStoryEditor() {
  var windows = app.activeDocument.windows,
    nbWindows = windows.length,
    i,
    closedWindow = false;
  for (i = 0; !closedWindow && i < nbWindows; i += 1) {
    if (!windows[i].hasOwnProperty("zoom")) {
      // Let us presume that a window without a zoom method is a story editor window...
      windows[i].close();
      closedWindow = true;
    }
  }
}