Protect Tones keystroke

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
December 8, 2021
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A keystroke/shortcut for the protect tones check box in the dodge tool would be very helpful! I'm constantly clicking it on and off!

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

If you had two dodge tool presets named "Dodge Protect Tones On" & "Dodge Protect Tones Off", a custom keyboard shortcut could be applied to each of the following installed scripts.

Dodge Protect Tones On:

// Dodge Protect Tones On
// Ensure that the Dodge tool is active
(r = new ActionReference()).putClass(stringIDToTypeID('dodgeTool'));
(d = new ActionDescriptor()).putReference(stringIDToTypeID('target'), r);
// Select tool preset named: Dodge Protect Tones On
executeAction(stringIDToTypeID('select'), d, DialogModes.NO)
var idselect = stringIDToTypeID( "select" );
    var desc272 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var idnull = stringIDToTypeID( "null" );
        var ref28 = new ActionReference();
        var idtoolPreset = stringIDToTypeID( "toolPreset" );
        ref28.putName( idtoolPreset, "Dodge Protect Tones On" );
    desc272.putReference( idnull, ref28 );
executeAction( idselect, desc272, DialogModes.NO );

Dodge Protect Tones Off:

// Dodge Protect Tones Off
// Ensure that the Dodge tool is active
(r = new ActionReference()).putClass(stringIDToTypeID('dodgeTool'));
(d = new ActionDescriptor()).putReference(stringIDToTypeID('target'), r);
// Select tool preset named: Dodge Protect Tones Off
executeAction(stringIDToTypeID('select'), d, DialogModes.NO)
var idselect = stringIDToTypeID( "select" );
    var desc273 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var idnull = stringIDToTypeID( "null" );
        var ref29 = new ActionReference();
        var idtoolPreset = stringIDToTypeID( "toolPreset" );
        ref29.putName( idtoolPreset, "Dodge Protect Tones Off" );
    desc273.putReference( idnull, ref29 );
executeAction( idselect, desc273, DialogModes.NO );

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

I appreciate that this is a feature request. Until such a feature exists, you can do the following...

Create a tool preset for having the option turned on/ticked and another for the option off/inactive.

Create a new action set, record two actions, each with a single step – either selecting the on or off tool preset. The action options can then have an F-Key shortcut added to them.

Extending this further, a script could be used, with the added benefit of having custom keyboard shortcuts that may be easier to use than F-key shortcuts.

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