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Rambutan
Rambutan
Inspiring
February 9, 2017
Question

BridgeTalk script woks in all apps except Photoshop

  • February 9, 2017
  • 2 replies
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Hi all, I'm doing some experiments in implementing a generic async function call in Extendscript (read setInterval and setTimeout).

I have have a very rough example working in AI, PPro and AE but the script won't execute correctly in Photoshop.  No errors, just doesn't seem to send the BridgeTalk message to itself.  I know there are better ways to implement the function call etc, just want to get it working in Photoshop for now.

Any ideas?

var testLoop = function(str) {
    for(c = 0; c  < 20; c++)  {
        $.writeln(str + String(c));
        $.sleep(100);
     }
 };
var setTimeout = function(fn, fnCall, timeOut) {
    targetApp = BridgeTalk.getSpecifier(BridgeTalk.appName); 
    if( targetApp ) {     
        var bt = new BridgeTalk;
        bt.target  = targetApp; 
        bt.body = fn.toString() + "; $.sleep(" + timeOut + "); " + fnCall + ";";           
        //bt.onResult = function(returnBtObj) {
            //$.writeln("returnMessage");
        //};    
        bt.send();   
    }
}
$.writeln("MainThreadExecute A");
setTimeout(testLoop, "testLoop('Loop New Thread ')", 3000);
$.writeln("MainThreadExecute B");

TNKS!

G

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M
mutagenicpixels
Inspiring
March 24, 2017

Try this:

var testLoop = function(str) {
    for(c = 0; c < 10; c++)  {  
        $.writeln(str + String(c));  
        $.sleep(100);  
     }  
 };  
  
  
var setTimeout = function(fn, fnString, timeOut) {  
    var targetApp = BridgeTalk.getSpecifier(BridgeTalk.appName);
    if( targetApp ) {       
        var bt = new BridgeTalk;  
        bt.target  = targetApp;   
        bt.body = "var func = " + fn.toSource() + "; $.sleep(" + timeOut + "); func('" + fnString + "');";
        bt.onResult = function(btMessage) {eval(btMessage.body);};
        bt.send();     
    }  
}  
  
  
$.writeln("MainThreadExecute A"); 
setTimeout(testLoop, "Loop New Thread ", 1000);  
$.writeln("MainThreadExecute B");
SuperMerlin
SuperMerlin
Inspiring
February 9, 2017

Add a timeout to bt.send(); I.E. bt.send(8);

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