Bridge

Ive been working on some photos in ACR/CS2 and a strange thing happened. After working on raw files I save them in a separate working folder as psd files. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, my PSD files are showing up in Bridge as tiny thumbnails. This just started happening in the middle of working on a folder of raw files. The first few were fine and then the saved files began showing up as thumbnails. Moving the slider to make them bigger doesnt do anything. I can make all the files smaller by moving the slider to the left, but moving to the right only makes the files thumbnail size. Very weird. This problem seems limited to Bridge. In PS they look fine. Ive even checked their file size and that looks fine. Ive closed and reopened Bridge, but that had no affect. I cleared ACR preferences and purged the folder; that brought back some files but then others became small. Also when working on new files, the first few were again OK and then again files became thumbnail size in Bridge.

Hi, is it possible to write a script which prevents a file name text field become active when user clicks thumbnail's file name in Bridge's content pane? In this way, user couldn't rename files accidently when managing files with Bridge. Text field should become active when some key, like F2, is pressed and then file can be renamed. Please help me out, example script would be nice :) -JP-

Hi I am creating a new panel on Bridge's Preferences. I use the PreferencesDialog object but I am able to create only a single control on it. The following lines: var cbOne = panel.add( "checkbox", [50, 50, 200, 100], "First"); var cbTwo = panel.add( "checkbox", [150, 150, 200, 100], "Second"); show only the first one. The same happens for every control (panels, etc.). Only the first control is shown. I used the SnpAddPreferencesPanel.jsx sample on the Bridge CS3 SDK, adding only a second checkbox. Anyone tried to do something similar and worked? I have forgotten to add something else in code? Thank You for the help!

I get this "create redeclared" error message on the following line of code: var labelMenu = MenuElement.create( "command", "Label", "at the end of Thumbnail"); but then this function and all others work just fine afterwards. Is there a way to either fix the error or suppress this warning? It's really more of an annoyance than anything else. I'm using Bridge CS2 1.0.4.6

New to Bridge but not [Apple]scripting. I see Bridge CS3 has almost no Applescript commands but all Javascript. My question is: Is it possible to tell Bridge to step through a big folder heirarchy and create thumbnails for all images? Any quick examples or reference appreciated.

How to remove the [new ExternalObject(lib).myScript()] timeout limitaion? jxswm

Is there a particular reason why the AdobeXMPScript dll does _not_ work with Photoshop? Shouldn't dlls like this be portable across apps? Especially one's that deal with XMP data since that would kinda be something needed across all apps... -X

I would find it very useful to see the path displayed for each image found by a search in Bridge CS3. I can see no way to get the path to show in metadata. How might I get at the path parameter and display it when an image is selected in the search result pane?

I'm writing a Bridge CS3 script to generate a web gallery. The user selects some files and starts the script through a context menu item. The script iterates through the selection list a couple of times, writes files, etc. As the final step, I need to start Photoshop CS3 and run an action on the set of selected files--as if I had picked Tools/Photoshop/Batch... from the Bridge menus but with the action specified so the user does not have to go through the action dialog in Photoshop. After starting the action, the Bridge script is complete and can quit while Photoshop does its batch processing. The Photoshop action contains mostly "fit image..." and sharpening steps. It also contains some simple scripts, mostly simple "save as" types of operations. I'm uncertain how to do this. Is this where BridgeTalk must be used? Can anyone direct me to a sample script that does something simple like this? Is there any problem with having scripts within the action? Some messages I've seen suggest

Folks, I have 2000 files all renamed to match a workflow, selects down to 180 and I sent JPGs to client. Client decided to rename the files "GLASSES_1" and "SMILE_3 final" and one even called "32r2rwsef" (I think they were leaning on the keyboard). They've sent me back these low res' JPGs with the retouch brief, but how can I match the files with the new names to my original files? I'm thinking I have to do it manually this time, but if I could put the file name in as a keyword, I'd never have the problem of clients (or colleagues) changing my filenames again and me not finding the HR files again. Any ideas? cheers Mark P.S. I posted this in the Lightroom discussion too!

I've tried to implement a progress bar for handling FtpConnection puts and gets. My progress bar code works; I use it in PSCS2 and PSCS3 just fine. My ftp code is also working in Bridge CS3: my progress bar and text is getting updated correctly, the files are getting transferred, I am just locked out of doing anything with it, like hit the cancel key. I've tried doing this with ftp sync and async, I've pumping and not pumping. Nothing I do will let the palette window acquire focus while FtpConnection is doing a get or a put. Has anybody got a progress bar/palette working with FtpConnection yet? -X

I have written a script in Bridge CS3, running on Windows XP, that will move a folder full of images from its current location to another location. For example, it will move the folder "g:\working\2007-06-05 Stuff" to "g:\dslr\2007\06 Jun\2007-06-05 Stuff." The script is invoked by a context menu and implements part of my workflow strategy. I am using the thumbnail moveTo() method to move the folder. In the above example, if "g:\dslr\2007\06 Jun" exists, then moveTo() works fine. However, if the directory tree does not exist, moveTo() apparently does not create parent directories automatically. So it appears I have to create the parent directory(ies) myself. How do I create those parent directories? Just creating new Folder objects in JavaScript doesn't cause the directory to be created in the file system (as expected since Javascript is intended to protect the file system from change). I haven't found any ExtendScript tools that appear to create directories. How can I accomplish th

There doesn't appear to be an independent forum for using ESTK to extend CS3 apps, so I'll ask my questions here since the docs for ExternalObject were bundled with Bridge. 1) I couldn't find any docs or sample code that would show me how to add class methods and class properties. I can do instance methods/properties just fine. Where's the docs for class methods/properties? 2) Once nice feature of JS is that you can dynamically add methods and properties to (almost) any object. What is not clear is what is required to support this behavior in SoObjectInterface.put/get/call. Do I just have those callbacks ignore (return kESErrOK) or does something more need to be done? -X

Hi, I'm currently working on customizing Bridge (ie. custom file info panel, start-up scripts), but I would like to share the changes I make with a group of users. So far, what I've been doing is modifying a start-up script or custom panel, and then sending it to each person, and telling them where on their system to put the file. It would be much easier to have a shared instance of the file, so I could just modify that file directly. Is this possible? (We all have access to a shared drive, but I can't figure out how to get something on that drive to be detected by Bridge)

I have a script that uses automatic layout and draws a lot of panels in a series of dialogs. Sometimes the panels have the correct borders, and sometimes the border fails to draw. This script works fine in CS2, not well in CS3. I will test this on another computer next week. Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Rory

I built out the demo libs that came with the BridgeSDK, using VC++ Studio Express. The build went fine. When I try to load the lib, I get an I/O Error and a popup that sez: Photoshop.exe - Bad Image The application or DLL C:\.... is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation disk. What gives? My guesses are: 1) The VCStudio Express stuff doesn't work. The build wasn't really good. 2) The Windows SDK that I have is not the right version. The build wasn't really good. 3) Dynamically loading libs like this into PS is not really supported. 4) Operator error. 5) Something else. -X -- for photoshop scripting solutions of all sorts contact: xbytor@gmail.com

Hi, I need to get at strcutured data types (bag and alt) and I can't figure out how to do this in CS2, or if it's even possible. I've looked at the sample code in the scripting guide, but it doesn't seem to be of use. Here's what I've tried so far to get the first element in the alt structure xmpRights:UsageTerms field (labeled x-default): var tn = new Thumbnail(fileName); var md = tn.synchronousMetadata; md.namespace = "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/"; var rights = md.UsageTerms; Window.alert(rights["UsageTerms/xmpRights:x-default"]); Any suggestions?

Is there a document around that specifies precisely what parts of E4X are and are not supported? I am trying to work with XMP data via E4X and I'm not having any luck. I thought at first I was doing something wrong. A simple test case was this var xmpdom = ( text from a PS generated XMP file); xmpdom.*::RDF; This generates an syntax error in CS3 but works fine in Firefox. Is namespace support busted? Is there any sample code floating around showing how to use the mini-E4X support to work with XMP data? -X

Hi all I know absolutely nothing about scripting or code and am finding it hard to find an answer to my problem. I am after a script that will let me export file names from Bridge and then let me paste these file names into Excel. The file names must be pasted in to Excel in the exact same order as they are in Bridge. They are not necessarily always in sequential order. I have seen similar scripts on Adobe Forums but have no idea what to do with them. I keep getting error messages when I try to save them. Do I cut and paste the text into Script Editor? Where do I save the file? Do I run the script from within Bridge? Where in Bridge do I access the script? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Trevor

When I select "Tools"->"Photoshop" and image processor and all scripts etc are missing. Not greyed out but completly gone!! Any suggestions? I am running CS@ on OSX10.4.6 I have reinstalled etc... Cheers Patrick

Approximately two years ago I downloaded the Bridge JavaScript Reference Guide for CS2 as a PDF file (3.5 MB) from Adobe's website. Now I am looking for the respective scripting reference for Bridge CS3---but I cannot find one. I found several User Manuals and Reference Guides for Photoshop CS3, Version Cue CS3 Client and Server and the like ... but no scripting reference for Bridge CS3. Obviously the old scripting reference for Bridge 1.0 still is useful ... but there sure are a few changes/improvements/extensions, aren't there? Does someone have an ides where to find Bridge CS3's scripting reference? -- Olaf

I am adding several menu items to the Bridge CS3 2.1 context menu in the content pane. The MenuElement constructors in the two scripts (one for each menu item) are: var cntCommand = new MenuElement("command", "RejectImageMenuItem", "at the end of Thumbnail", this.menuID); var cntCommand = new MenuElement("command", "SecondImageMenuItem", "after rejectRawImage", this.menuID); I am getting separators between my menu elements in the context menu. I really want me two menu items together, without a separator between them. As I read the MenuElement specs, it sounds like I should not get separators unless I have a "-" as part of the menu position, but I am not including that and getting separators anyway. How do I avoid the separators? Thanks. Guy

Will the Browsebar script for CS2 Bridge work with CS3 Bridge? I find it very useful but, since Bridge seems to have a bit of sensitivity to script settings I didn't want to put it in if it was going to mess up the stability.

I'd like to be able to display metadata on the image canvas. Preferably the script would first enlarge the canvas size to add a border and then create a text-snippet from the metadata. Ex. http://www.skissernasmuseum.se/img/test.jpg Is this possible?

(I would swear that I posted this message yesterday, but it doesn't show up so I am trying again.) I am adding a context menu item for thumbnails to move allow me to move selected thumbnails to another location, creating the new location if necessary. The script is creating the new directory correctly but moveTo(newDirectory) is always failing. I presume I am doing something wrong, but don't know what it is. I would appreciate any guidance. cntCommand.onSelect = function(m) { app.synchronousMode = true; // This doesn't help $.writeln("onSelect entered"); var thumb = app.document.thumbnail; var targetDir = CreateSubFolder(thumb, "Rejects"); $.writeln("Target directory is: " + targetDir); var targetThumb = new Thumbnail (targetDir); // Also tried moveTo(targetDir) with same failure if (!thumb.moveTo (targetThumb)) { $.writeln("moveTo failed"); } }; function CreateSubFolder( doc, folderName ) { $.writeln("CreateSubFolder entered"); var imgPath = doc.path var dirName = i