copy-article-number-to-clipboard.jsx

(function (thisObj) {
  var doc = app.activeDocument;
  if (doc === null) {
    alert("No document");

    return;
  }
  if (doc.selection.length === 0) {
    alert("No selction");
    return;
  }

  var sel = app.selection[0];

  if (sel.hasOwnProperty('images')) {

    if (sel.images.length === 0) return;
    var link = sel.images[0].itemLink;
    // if(link.needed === false){
    //   alert("embedded");
    //   return;
    // }
    // var path = "";
    // if(link.status == LinkStatus.LINK_MISSING){
    //   alert("image is missing");
    //   return;
    // }

    // var img = File(path);
    // alert(img.path);

    myScript = 'do shell script "echo \''+ link.name.split("_")[0] +'\' | pbcopy"';
    app.doScript(myScript, ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage);
    message("--- copied " + link.name.split("_")[0] + " to clipboard ---", 2000);
  } else{
     alert("Not a image frame");
 }
/**
 * Taken from ScriptUI by Peter Kahrel
 * @usage
 * var progress_win = new Window ("palette");
 *
 * var progress = progress_bar(progress_win, 100, 'my Progress');
 *
 *       progress.value = i++;
 *       progress.parent.close();// important close it!!
 *
 * @param  {Palette} w    the palette the progress is shown on
 * @param  {Number} stop [description]
 * @return {Progressbar}      [description]
 */
function message ( labeltext, millisec) {
var w = new Window ("palette");
var txt = w.add('statictext',undefined,labeltext);
// var pbar = w.add ("progressbar", undefined, 1, stop); pbar.preferredSize = [300,20];
w.show ();
sleep(millisec);
w.close();
}

function sleep(milliseconds) {
  var start = new Date().getTime();
  for (var i = 0; i < 1e7; i++) {
    if ((new Date().getTime() - start) > milliseconds){
      break;
    }
  }
}
})(this);